It will soon be easier for residents of North Kawartha Township to get in-person access to provincial government services, including driver’s licences and health cards.
On Monday (March 11), the Ontario government announced the village of Apsley is one of six rural northern communities that will be getting a ServiceOntario mobile service centre.
“Previously residents in North Kawartha would have to travel an average of 90 kilometres round trip to visit a ServiceOntario location,” says Peterborough-Kawartha MPP Dave Smith in a media release. “The provincial government is committed to ensuring all of Ontario has access to government services they need, and this is one more step towards that promise.”
The mobile centre will deliver in-person access to services to the communities of MacTier, Burk’s Falls, Apsley, Denbigh, Whitney, and Moose Deer Point First Nation. The service is now available in MacTier and Burk’s Falls, with the expansion into the remaining four communities including Apsley taking place by April.
The mobile service centre is accessible and offers the following services in both English and French: driver’s licences; vehicle permits and plates; stickers for commercial vehicles; accessible parking permits; driver and vehicle records; health card and insurance (OHIP); organ and tissue donation; birth, marriage, and death; photo card; apostille/authentication of documents; fishing, hunting, and camping; housing and property; and taxes.
The schedule and location of the ServiceOntario mobile service centre in Apsley has not yet been announced, but the information will be available at ontario.ca/page/serviceontario-mobile-service-centres when the service launches in Apsley by early April.
