Joanne Culley

5 days ago | thepeterboroughexaminer.com | Joanne Culley

I thought I’d share some books I’ve enjoyed recently that would make good reads for this spring. As part of the Peterborough Public Library’s book club, I have taken part in lively discussions facilitated by librarian Karen Bisschop. Many of the following titles are available at the Peterborough Public Library, Take Cover Books, Happenstance, Chapters or online.

1 week ago | thepeterboroughexaminer.com | Joanne Culley

With the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe coming up on May 8, I thought I would reflect on the opportunities for women that the war brought. Prospects for a farm girl growing up on the prairies during the Great Depression weren’t good. My mother, Helen Reeder, didn’t want to marry a farmer and repeat the hardscrabble life of her mother who was raising 11 children on oatmeal porridge and potatoes. Crop failures due to drought made for a precarious living.

2 weeks ago | thepeterboroughexaminer.com | Joanne Culley

The 11th annual Rotary Club of Peterborough Spelling Bee will take place on Saturday, May 3 in the Whetung Theatre at Fleming College’s Sutherland Campus, 599 Brealey Dr., from 9 a.m. to approximately 3 p.m.“Over 30 local schools including home school children will be sending representatives,” says Catherine Hanrahan, Spelling Bee Committee past chair.

3 weeks ago | thepeterboroughexaminer.com | Joanne Culley

The Kawartha Potters Guild Spring Sale is coming up on Friday, April 25, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday, April 26 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, April 27 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., with free admission and free parking at 993 Talwood Dr.“A gift of pottery made by a local potter would be an excellent present for birthdays, weddings, graduation, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day or teachers,” says JoAnne Connell Northey, sale co-ordinator.

1 month ago | thepeterboroughexaminer.com | Joanne Culley

Internationally bestselling author Genevieve Graham’s new book “On Isabella Street” will be released on April 22. Set in the 1960s in Toronto, this novel is written from the perspectives of two women who live in the same apartment building downtown who become friends, one a hippie and the other a psychiatrist, amid the turmoil of anti-Vietnam war protests, the deinstitutionalization of psychiatric patients and the general loosening of the strictures of society.