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Tim Haines is the owner of Bluestreak Records, one of 80 downtown Peterborough businesses from which you can buy gift certificates online at supportdowntownptbo.ca. The Peterborough Downtown Business Improvement Area (DBIA) is bringing back its popular "spend $50 and get $25 in downtown money", while quantities last, when you purchase gift certificates from the website. (Photo courtesy of DBIA)

businessNOW – April 7, 2020

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Featuring free 'downtown money' when you buy gift certificates at supportdowntownptbo.ca, federal government support for businesses during COVID-19, and more.
Kyla Gutsche (left), owner and operator of Cosmetic Transformations in Peterborough, with some of the medical supplies her company has donated for front-line health care workers at Peterborough Regional Health Centre. A renowned cosmetic and medical micropigmentation company that can enhance or restore features people have lost due to illness, trauma, surgery or the aging process, Cosmetic Transformation uses these supplies while delivering its services but the company has been forced to shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo courtesy of Kyla Gutsche)

businessNOW – March 25, 2020

The Peterborough Downtown Business Improvement Area (DBIA) is working to ensure downtown Peterborough looks like this again after the COVID-19 pandemic by launching supportdowntownptbo.ca, a new website where people can buy gift cards and certificates from 59 downtown Peterborough businesses, helping them with their immediate cash flow needs during the economic crisis caused by the pandemic. (Photo: Peterborough DBIA)

Downtown Peterborough launches new website to support locally owned businesses during COVID-19

Peterborough-area manufacturers and businesses are encouraged to help meet the demand for urgent medical supplies to manage the COVID-19 pandemic. Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC) is in need of medical products and supplies including N95 masks (with NIOSH of CE) and ear loop masks (ASTMF2100-11, L2 rating or greater) as well as nitrile gloves, protective gowns, hand sanitizer, and more.

Peterborough-area businesses asked to help meet demand for urgent medical supplies

The government-ordered closure of bars and restaurants across Ontario to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 is having a huge economic impact on downtown Peterborough, home to more than 100 eateries. Local economic development organizations Peterborough & the Kawarthas Economic Development, the Peterborough Downtown Business Improvement Area, the Peterborough Chamber of Commerce, Community Futures Peterborough, and the Innovation Cluster Peterborough and the Kawarthas, collectively known as "TeamPTBO", are working together proactively to identify the impact of COVID-19 on the local business sector and possible solutions so that recovery funding from all three levels of government is targeted most effectively. (Photo: Patrick Stephen / Peterborough DBIA)

TeamPTBO preparing now to help the local business community recover from COVID-19

Five of Peterborough's leading economic development organizations have joined forced to launch a survey of local businesses to help determine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and develop a unified approach to possible solutions to offset the impact. (Photo: Peterborough & the Kawarthas Economic Development)

businessNOW – March 17, 2020

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