The Selwyn Fire Department will be updating their agreement with Peterborough City/County EMS to help alleviate some of the pressures the department is feeling due to increased medical calls.
According to a report that was presented to Selwyn Council during the March 12 regular meeting, a Tiered Response Agreement was executed in 2016 between the County of Peterborough and all of the lower tier municipalities when the province required that an agreement between the municipalities, as the provider of fire services, and the County, as the provider of land ambulance services, be established.
However, there was a change that was made when the agreement was put in place that stated shortness of breath type calls would be added as a Code 4 criteria for dispatch and the amount of time before an ambulance is expected to arrive to those calls was reduced to 10 minutes.
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF) gave an update to North Kawartha Council on the coyote populations in the township during their last regular meeting held on March 5.
Presenting for the MNRF was Colin Higgins, Management Biologist, for the Peterborough-Bancroft District and Brent Patterson, Senior Research Scientist, Wildlife Research& Monitoring Section.
Last month, residents asked the township to take action against the perceived dangerous number of coyotes in the area. Residents expressed to council that they felt the population of the coyotes is getting out of control with the predator animals wondering into town, with sightings at the local school and at resident’s homes.
The Lakefield Funtimers Hockey league (LFHL) started in Jan. 2024. It is a fun and friendly local hockey league to enhance fitness, reduce risks of injury for old timers 60 plus years-old that want to play hockey into their later years. LFHL supports social events for players, community volunteer efforts and charities.
The league had a very successful start-up season with 20 players participating. The level of participation and positive feedback supporting a ‘fun style of play’ and a friendly passing game has exceeded our expectations. While there are some very good skaters and hockey players, many had not played hockey in the last five to 20 years.
This short documentary is a portrait of a tiny town, Lakefield, Ontario, and its independent weekly, the Herald. Across North America, newspapers are dying, but in Lakefield, Terry McQuitty, the town paper’s publisher, carries on a rich, 150-year-old tradition. Set to the pace of small-town life, Unheralded is a testament to the vital role newspapers can still play, and the close bond between reporter and reader.