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What’s happening at December’s First Friday Peterborough art crawl

Browse work from local artists and artisans and find unique locally made gifts

kawarthaNOW - December 2, 2021

After more than 600 days, live music returns to the Gordon Best in downtown Peterborough on Friday, December 3 with punk rockers Cross Dog performing in a show with Garbageface and Shahrazi. (Photo: Bryan Reid Photography)

nightlifeNOW – December 2 to 8

Peterborough police charged a 63-year-old man with uttering threats in connection with an incident at Peterborough Public Health's offices in downtown Peterborough on October 24, 2021. (File photo)

Peterborough’s new medical officer of health pledges ‘zero tolerance’ with threats to public health staff

A middle-aged man receiving a vaccination. (Stock photo)

Ontarians 50 and older can book their COVID-19 vaccine booster doses as of December 13

Derek Banville displays his $500 Boro gift card and winning holiday shopping passport with Wild Rock Outfitters co-owner Scott Murison. Banville completed his passport after buying a bike at Wild Rock for his son's birthday. (Photo courtesy of Peterborough DBIA)

Derek Banville receives a $500 reward for shopping in downtown Peterborough

Holiday Shopping Passport $500 early bird draws continue on December 8 and 15, with $1,500 grand prize draw on January 12

kawarthaNOW - December 2, 2021

Six businesses operated by Caitlin Smith, Patrick and Deanna Leahy, Brad Carson, Bruno Merz and Dreda Blow, Angela McDonald, and Lynda Todd have each received a $5,000 microgrant after participating in the fall intake of the Starter Company Plus program offered by the Peterborough & the Kawarthas Business Advisory Centre. (Photos courtesy of Peterborough & the Kawarthas Economic Development)

Six Peterborough-area businesses receive $5,000 microgrants through Starter Company Plus

Founded in 1975 in Oakville, Ren's Pets is Canada's largest independent retailer of pet supplies. The company's first store in the Kawarthas is located at 871 Rye Street in Peterborough. (Photo courtesy of Ren's Pets)

Ren’s Pets pledges $25,000 for Peterborough Humane Society’s new animal care centre

Sustainable gift giving includes consideration for greeting cards. Seven billion physical greeting cards are produced each year with annual sales of $7.5 billion and approximately 1.1 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions. Look for locally made cards, like these by Jeffrey Macklin of Jackson Creek Press (available at the GreenUP Store), which are printed on recycled paper without shiny or glossy materials, glitter, metal, or plastic adornments. (Photo courtesy of GreenUP)

How to talk with your friends and family about sustainable gift giving

Mary Overholt of Peterborough (right) accepts a cheque for $39,855 from the Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC) Foundation. Overholt won the grand prize in the November 50/50 lottery, and also chose an additional $2,000 in cash as her bonus prize. (Photo courtesy of PRHC Foundation)

Peterborough’s Mary Overholt wins over $41,000 in cash in PRHC Foundation’s November 50/50 lottery

Tickets for December lottery now available, with a special holiday deal of 750 tickets for $75

kawarthaNOW - December 1, 2021

A delivered package outside a door. (Stock photo)

Peterborough police caution residents to be on the lookout for porch pirates during holiday season

Jon Maxwell, president of the Peterborough and the Kawarthas Association of Realtors, presents a cheque for $23,318.74 to YWCA Peterborough Haliburton in support of the YWCA Crossroads Shelter. (Photo courtesy of YWCA Peterborough Haliburton)

Local realtors donate more than $23,000 to YWCA Peterborough Haliburton

Dr. Thomas Piggott cycled to his first day of work as Peterborough's new medical officer of health at Peterborough Public Health in downtown Peterborough on December 1, 2021. (Photo: Dr. Thomas Piggott / Twitter)

Dr. Thomas Piggott begins his first day as Peterborough’s new medical officer of health

News & Community

Peterborough’s new medical officer of health pledges ‘zero tolerance’ with threats to public health staff

Paul Rellinger - December 2, 2021

Dr. Thomas Piggott says threats 'the last thing we need' as local new case numbers rise dramatically and the omicron variant looms.

Ontarians 50 and older can book their COVID-19 vaccine booster doses as of December 13

December 2, 2021

Derek Banville receives a $500 reward for shopping in downtown Peterborough

December 2, 2021

Ren’s Pets pledges $25,000 for Peterborough Humane Society’s new animal care centre

December 2, 2021

Peterborough’s Mary Overholt wins over $41,000 in cash in PRHC Foundation’s November 50/50 lottery

December 1, 2021

Arts & Entertainment

What’s happening at December’s First Friday Peterborough art crawl

kawarthaNOW - December 2, 2021

Browse work from local artists and artisans and find unique locally made gifts.

nightlifeNOW – December 2 to 8

December 2, 2021

Legendary Canadian comedic musician and performance artist BA Johnston returns to the Red Dog Tavern in downtown Peterborough on Friday, November 26 in a show with The Mickies and Poor Pelly. (kawarthaNOW screenshot from video by BA Johnston)

nightlifeNOW – November 25 to December 1

November 25, 2021

In the satirical black comedy "Don't Look Up", Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence star as two low-level astronomers who attempt to convince a disinterested world of pending doom as a planet-killing comet hurtles towards Earth. The film premieres on Netflix on December 24, 2021 after a limited theatrical release. (Photo: Netflix)

What’s new on Netflix Canada in December 2021

November 23, 2021

Solo bassoonist Nadine Mackie Jackson, the most widely recorded Canadian bassoonist in history, will be the special musical guest for "Wings of Sound" on February 5, 2022, the Peterborough Symphony Orchestra's first in-person concert at Showplace Performance Centre since the pandemic began. Season subscriptions are now on sale, with single tickets on sale in December. (Photo: Bo Huang)

Peterborough Symphony Orchestra brings live orchestral music back to Showplace in 2022

November 22, 2021

Business & Technology

Six Peterborough-area businesses receive $5,000 microgrants through Starter Company Plus

kawarthaNOW - December 2, 2021

12 small businesses participated in five-week program offered by Peterborough & the Kawarthas Business Advisory Centre.

Enniskillen General Store, a family-owned business with locations in Enniskillen, Port Perry, Bowmanville, and Oshawa, is hosting a grand opening celebration of its new Peterborough location in Marsdale Plaza across from Beavermead Park on November 19, 2021. (Photo: Enniskillen General Store)

businessNOW: Enniskillen General Store opens new location in Peterborough

November 16, 2021

Mental health advocate Jon Perrin (right) accepts the citizen of the year award from Shawn Harris of IG Wealth Management, the award's sponsor, at the Lindsay and District Chamber of Commerce's Awards of Excellence celebration on November 12, 2021. (Photo: R.A. Bloom Creations)

Mental health advocate Jon Perrin named Lindsay’s citizen of the year

November 15, 2021

Things Between Bread, a food truck located in the parking lot of Olympus Burger in downtown Port Hope, is the brainchild of Eric Ashley-Harris, Rikki Mckenzie, and Shayne Traviss. Things Between Bread offers fresh made-to-order sandwiches using locally sourced ingredients. (Photo: April Potter / kawarthaNOW)

Success is all about having the right Things Between Bread in Port Hope

November 9, 2021

The 12 Peterborough-area entrepreneurs participating in the fall intake of the Peterborough & the Kawarthas Business Advisory Centre's Starter Company Plus program (left to right, top to bottom): Amanda O'Rourke, Angela McDonald, Bruno Merz and Dreda Blow, Brad Carson, Caitlin Smith, Kate Suhr, Shawn and Jolene Morris, Patrick and Deanna Leahy, Lynda Todd, Denise and Rob Driscoll, Travis Berlenbach, and Dawn and Lea Call. (Photo collage courtesy of Peterborough & the Kawarthas Business Advisory Centre)

12 more Peterborough-area entrepreneurs getting help to launch or expand their businesses

November 2, 2021

Lifestyle & Family

How to talk with your friends and family about sustainable gift giving

GreenUP - December 2, 2021

Tips for conscious consumerism, including reducing holiday waste, choosing green gifts, and shopping local.

Many volunteers at Winfield Shores Harbour Park, this year's Depave Paradise project in Lakefield, were older adults who continue to lead the maintenance of the parkette in their neighbourhood. Enhancing urban spaces using the principles of universal design, which meets the needs of all people regardless of age or ability, will be even more important as the percentage of people in the Peterborough area who are over 65 continues to increase in the next 25 years. (Photo: Hayley Goodchild / GreenUP)

Designing urban spaces in communities like Peterborough to include the needs of older adults benefits everyone

November 18, 2021

Greg and Amanda da Silva, owners of The El gastropub in Cobourg, will soon be opening The El (P) gastropub in downtown Peterborough. The Peterborough restaurant, opening in the space previously occupied by the Old Stone Brewery and Hot Belly Mama's, will feature accessible food inspired by art and travel like this Korean Fried Chicken Sandwich featured at the Cobourg restaurant this summer. (Photo: The El)

KNosh News – November 2021

November 16, 2021

This shot by Memtyme of an island reflected in the still waters of Lower Buckhorn Lake was our top Instagram post in October 2021, with almost 23,000 impressions and 1,700 likes. (Photo Memtyme @memtyme / Instagram)

Our top nine Instagram photographers for October 2021

November 6, 2021

The Town of Cobourg is proceeding with an in-person Santa Claus parade on December 4, 2021, taking place at night for the first time. Pictured is a Santa Claus parade in Penticton, B.C. (Stock photo)

Santa is coming to Cobourg on December 4 for the town’s first-ever evening parade

November 3, 2021

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