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Keep your family healthy and safe over the holiday season

Make sure your family stays safe and healthy this holiday

While the holiday season is an ideal time for entertaining family and friends, there’s always a chance something can go wrong when lots of people get together — whether it’s from a guest with the flu, an undercooked turkey, or a kitchen fire. Here are some tips to help ensure everyone has a safe and healthy holiday.

Back to Reality – a spoiler-free review of The Force Awakens

Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the seventh film in the franchise, opened in theatres on December 18, 2015

A long time ago (16 years ago), in a cinema far, far away (Lansdowne Place), I was 11 years old and waiting with giddy delirium for the imminent arrival of arguably the most anticipated film of all-time: Star Wars Episode l: The Phantom Menace.

Employment agency donates 100 teddy bears for children in need

Peterborough Police Deputy Chief Tim Farquharson, Steve Daynes of Level A Professional Group and The Staffing Connection, Kawartha-Haliburton Children's Aid Society Executive Director Jennifer Wilson, and Peterborough Police Victim Services Coordinator Alice Czitrom

Level A Professional Group and The Staffing Connection has donated 100 plush stuffed teddy bears to the Kawartha-Haliburton Children’s Aid Society and the Peterborough Police Service.

Students spread Christmas cheer in downtown Peterborough

The Grade 7/8 class from Immaculate Conception Catholic Elementary School gathered at the corner of George and Simcoe in downtown Peterborough

On Wednesday morning, students from Immaculate Conception Catholic Elementary School demonstrated the values of kindness and generosity by spreading Christmas cheer while raising money for the less fortunate.

A Bee Positive Peterborough

GreenUP Ecology Park's bee yard is part of their Pollen Power! children's educational program and will expand into the broader community in spring of 2016 (photo courtesy of GreenUP)

The holiday season is in full swing. No matter what you and your loved ones are celebrating this year, it will probably involve a holiday feast. Before you pass the cranberries, consider this … what would your holiday dinner look like without pollinators?

Another successful year for In From the Cold

Tanah Haney, Rob Fortin, Susan Newman, John Hoffman, and Michael Ketemer, with The Convivio Chorus in the background (photo: Linda McIlwain / kawarthaNOW)

This past weekend saw another successful In From the Cold concert at the Market Hall in Peterborough. Over the past 16 years, the annual Christmas-time concert — held on two nights in December — has raised more than $90,000 for the YES Shelter for Youth and Families.

C & C Surf Factory is loud, aggressive, and full of twang

C & C Surf Factory is Colin Cripps and "Champagne" James Robertson on guitar, supported by Chris Stringer on keys and percussion, Sly Juhas on drums, and Ryan Gavel on bass (photo: Jen Squires Photography)

If the idea was to light up Peterborough’s Historic Red Dog Tavern in the week before Christmas and bring some welcome heat as a respite from the grey chill of December, Mother Earth apparently didn’t get the memo. No matter. Having treated us to weeks of unseasonably mild weather without snow, Mother is nonetheless on it now, with freezing temps arriving just in time for C & C Surf Factory and special guests Mayhemingways on Friday, December 18th.

Megan Murphy’s self-affirming journey to her past is almost complete

Megan Murphy with her father's bicycle at the Cliffs of Moher in County Clare in a scene from Murphy's Law, the documentary of her journey across Ireland

In 2014, Megan Murphy’s cross-Ireland bike trek made local news headlines. Now with her upcoming documentary Murphy’s Law screening in June 2016 at Showplace Performance Centre, Megan reveals that the journey didn’t end in Ireland.

Making great care possible close to home for babies like Clara

Krista and Donald with their daughter Clara Campbell Fraser. Shortly after she was born last December 12, Clara spent five days in Peterborough Regional Health Centre's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. (Photo: Kay Jolly Photography)

Clara Campbell Fraser is well on her way to a life following in her parents’ musical footsteps. She’s already learned how to strum a guitar, and play with one finger — not a fist — on the old upright piano in the living room. And when Krista and Donald’s bundle of joy arrived December 12, 2014 at Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC), she was, just as they had imagined, the most beautiful baby they’d ever seen.

Rotary Club auction raises $25,000 for Hospice Peterborough

The Rotary Club of Peterborough-Kawartha presents a $25,000 cheque to Hospice Peterborough. Left to right: Rotarian Carl Brown, Campaign Chair Betty Morris, Hospice Executive Director Linda Sunderland, Rotarians Liz Lewis Woosey and Lou Hamel, Auction Chair Kim Winter. (Photo courtesy of Hospice Peterborough)

The online auction held by the Rotary Club of Peterborough-Kawartha over the last couple of weeks has raised $25,000 for Hospice Peterborough’s Every Moment Matters Campaign. The Rotary Club has pledged to raise $100,000 for the campaign to build a new facility for Hospice Peterborough.

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