‘Adopt’ an animal at the Riverview Park and Zoo
If you would like to help support your favourite animal friend at Riverview Park and Zoo, consider the zoo’s adopt-an-animal program. When you adopt one of the zoo’s animals, your adoption fee goes towards the animal’s care, nutrition, enrichment and training, and veterinary and health care. With over 125 animals and 45 species, the zoo welcomes people who want to adopt an animal as this helps maintain the zoo’s excellent level of care.
Adoptions make great gifts for birthdays or other special occasions since you can make the adoption in someone else’s name. The adoptions are also something families, classes or friends can take on as a group project. Adoption fees range from $100 to $300. For $100 you can adopt a tortoise, python, goat, pot-bellied pig, macaw or emu. For $150 adopt a red-rumped agouti, monkey, meerkat, lemur, wallaby, donkey, barbary sheep or yak. A reindeer or bobcat costs $200; a serval or otter $250, while $300 gets you a sloth, Sichuan Takin, or one of the Bactrian Camels.
Each adoption includes an adoption certificate, and a photo and animal fact sheet about the selected animal. The adoption is also noted on the animal adoption board located in the centre of the zoo.
Adoptions are for one-year terms and can be renewed annually. Tax receipts are issued for each adoption.
For further information on animal adoptions visit www.peterboroughutilities/Park_and_Zoo/ Adopt; call 705-748-9301, ext. 2331; or email riverviewparkandzoo@peterboroughutilities.ca
Pop Ensemble
Get your tickets now! The Peterborough Pop Ensemble presents Spotlight: Songs of Stage and Screen on Saturday, Feb.10 at 2 p.m. at the Market Hall Performing Arts Centre. As part of the Peterborough Pop Ensemble Charity Program, a portion of the proceeds will go to support Quilts for Cancer.
The performance will include songs from iconic musicals and films of Broadway and Hollywood such as Fame, Hairspray, The Music Man, Casablanca, A Star is Born, Les Mis, Beauty and the Beast, and more.
Tickets cost $23 per person or $13 for students and are available at tickets.markethall.org.
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Bingo
Help support Activity Haven Senior Centre by playing at an Activity Haven Bingo at Delta Bingo and Gaming, 1019 Clonsilla Ave. Mark these bingo dates and times on your calendars: 10 p.m.; Jan. 24 at 10:30 a.m.; Feb. 28 at 10:30 a.m.; March 10 at 10:30 a.m.; March 28 at 10:30 a.m., and April 4 at 10:30 a.m.
Lunches
Tuesday and Wednesday $6 lunches continue at Activity Haven. All lunches include dessert and coffee or tea. This week the Tuesday lunch menu includes egg salad sandwiches with home made vegetable soup while on Wednesday, participants will enjoy lasagna rollups with Caesar salad.
Take out is available (call ahead). Activity Haven is located at 180 Barnardo Ave. Call 705-876-1670.