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Rebecca and Hannah are ready to serve you at '76 Sips, the new beverage bar at the Lansdowne Street location of Joanne's Place Health Foods. The beverage bar opened on March 18, 2019. (Photo: Joanne's Place)

businessNOW – March 18, 2019

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Featuring opening of '76 Sips, Women in Business award nominees, Innovation Cluster, Golden Wheel Chinese Restaurant, Electric City Vegans, Kidz Playland, and more.
Members of the organizing committee (Sofie Andreou, Amy Simpson, Tracey Ormond) for the 2019 Women In Business and Judy Heffernan Awards announced the 44 nominees on Facebook Live on March 16, 2019. Andreou, Simpson, and Ormond will be the hosts for the awards ceremony on April 9, 2019.

Nominees for 2019 Women In Business and Judy Heffernan Awards announced...

It's not just a party trick: two whole grapes, when touching and heated in a microwave, create a lightning-like fireball of plasma, a hot gas of ions and electrons. Trent University physicist Aaron Slepkov, along with Pablo Bianuccib of Concordia University and Hamza Khattak of Trent University, published a study in February 2019 explaining exactly what is happening and why. The research went viral with coverage from international media. (Photo: Hamza K. Khattak, Trent University / PNAS)

Grape Balls of Fire! Trent University physicist’s research goes viral

Olympus Burger in Port Hope was selected as having the ninth best burger in Canada on a list of the top 50 burgers assembled by Big 7 Travel. (Photo: Olympus Burger)

businessNOW – March 11, 2019

Jonathan MacKay of Sustain Eco Store accepts the grand prize, which includes a free year's lease of a storefront in downtown Peterborough, at the Win This Space 2019 entrepreneurial competition finale at Aria on March 5, 2019. Jonathan and his wife Celine (not pictured) already own and operate an eco-lifestyle retail store in Huntsville, which they will expand to a second location in downtown Peterborough this spring. (Supplied photo)

Huntsville eco-lifestyle retailer Sustain is Win This Space grand prize winner

Gwyneth James of Cody & James Chartered Professional Accountants (middle) was named the Business Woman of the Year at the 2016 Peterborough Examiner Women in Business Awards, with Bridget Leslie of My Left Breast (left) and Betty Halman-Plumley of Investors Group (right) as finalists. The 2019 Women in Business Award, along with the Judy Heffernan Award, is now being presented by the Women's Business Network of Peterborough. Nominations for the two awards are now open until March 16, 2019. (Supplied photo)

businessNOW – March 4, 2019

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