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About the Author
Stu has extensive marketing and advertising experience and was owner of Harrison Advertising for many years prior to joining the Chamber of Commerce in 2003. He is currently the General Manager of the Greater Peterborough Area Chamber of Commerce. KawarthaNow is pleased to include Stu as a contributing columnist, and we appreciate his extensive knowledge of the local business community. Feel free to submit your business events and news to Stu via email. Don't forget to submit your business events to KawarthaNow.com too, using our online submission form. Business Beat Archives
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The Business Beat
by Stuart Harrison Welcome to The Business Beat. 
Jim Rusk, Paul Carter, Ian Bennett of Sun Life Financial Paul Carter recently relocated his financial services business to 1434 Chemong Road, Unit 14 in the Northview Commerce Court building. Paul is joined by his associates Jim Rusk and Ian Bennett and they represent Sun Life Financial. For more information call 705-775-2244. Level A hires Stephen MacNeil Level A Inc. recently announced the appointment of Stephen MacNeil as Vice President of Business Development. Stephen has had a 17 year career in IT, client services, support, and operations. Level A is a full service personnel agency for both temporary and permanent placements, behavioural profiling, team building, and conflict resolution. For more information visit www.levela.net. Lakefield Local Harvest adds Brunch Here are a couple of upcoming events featuring local food producers. Lakefield's annual Local Harvest is on Sunday August 14th. Organizer Laurie Collette has added a brunch to this year's event, so you'll now be able to choose between noon, 5:30 or 6:15 seatings. The brunch also adds a new family dimension to the event with lots of activities for kids such as jumping castles, crafts, 3-legged races, sack races and egg and spoon races, as well as music throughout the park. Tickets are available at Happenstance Books and Yarn in Lakefield and at the Thursday Lakefield Farmers Market. For more information call Laurie at 705-652-5159, or search for Lakefield Local Harvest on Facebook. 
The Purple Onion local food festival is announced And the Purple Onion Festival will take place September 24 in Millennium Park. Presented by Transition Town Peterborough the event will feature local food, market street vendors, local entertainment and a restaurant dine-around after the festival through to October 31st. For more information visit www.thepurpleonion.org. Chamber Business Excellence Awards deadline approaches And be sure to get your nomination in to the Chamber Business Excellence Awards. The annual event is on October 18 and publicy recognizes 51 local businesses, plus the Business Citizen of the Year. The nomination process is easy, and self nominations are encouraged. The dedline for nominatiions is August 29. Full details are online at www.peterboroughchamber.ca. |
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May 24, 2013
What's On in The Kawarthas!
Serving The Kawarthas Since 1996
Stuart "Stu" Harrison writes a weekly column about business news (published on KawarthaNow.com on Fridays and in the Peterborough Examiner on Mondays) and hosts a business segment every Monday evening on CHEX-TV's Newswatch.
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