Eryn Lidster is the new creative director of the ReFrame Film Festival. (Supplied photo)
Eryn Lidster is the new creative director of the ReFrame Film Festival.
Lidster, who will be responsible for implementing the creative and artistic vision of the annual festival, has a strong background in programming and project management with an emphasis on
film, media art, and theatre.
In 2018 and 2019, Lidster was awarded the Gregory R. Firth Memorial Prize for their film work, which has been screened internationally. Lidster is a founding member of Canadian Images in
Conversation screening collective, currently serves as chair of the board at Artspace artist-run centre, and “is a passionate supporter of local arts organizations, artists, and arts workers,” according to a media release.
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Lidster was recently project manager of the 2022 Erring at King George Festival with Public Energy, and has supported the production of over 40 performance works in Peterborough-Nogojiwanong since 2016. They hold an Honours BA from Trent University in cultural studies with a specialization in image, sound, and performance from Trent University. Lidster has also served as a guest lecturer in documentary film and a media technician at Trent’s cultural studies and media studies departments.
“I am eager to bring my love and deep curiosity for film and media art to the organization, and to come together with the community around a shared passion for the vital work of environmental
and social justice,” Lidster says in a media release. “I am deeply grateful to the dedicated ReFrame staff, board, and volunteers, past and present. I will endeavour to uphold the high standards you have set. I look forward to everything we will accomplish together.”
Lidster was hired following an extensive search process for a successor to Amy Siegel, who has served as creative director since 2018. Lidster joins festival director Kait Dueck in the co-leadership of the ReFrame Film Festival. Dueck was hired in October 2022 to replace Jay Adam, who was in the festival director role since 2018.
“We are very pleased that Eryn is joining our team,” says ReFrame board chair Jim Hendry. “Their commitment to film, the power of art to make change, and their deep connections with
Peterborough’s artistic community will ensure that ReFrame’s vision continues to be reflected in the festival’s film offerings and our community work.”
Madeleine Hurrell (right), Manager of Peterborough & the Kawarthas Economic Development's Business Advisory Centre, and Ella Fischer-Slack (left), Business Advisory Centre Coordinator, cut the ribbon at a recent event that showcased 24 entrepreneuers who participated in the Starter Company Plus program during the pandemic. Applications for the spring 2023 intake of the entrepreneurial training program close on April 30. (Photo courtesy of Peterborough & the Kawarthas Economic Development)
As Manager of Peterborough & the Kawarthas Economic Development’s Business Advisory Centre, Madeleine Hurrell has had the opportunity to work with a lot of entrepreneurs and discover what motivates them to launch a new venture or take their existing business to the next level.
“One overall theme is that they are all problem solvers, and they’re all what I would term helpers,” Hurrell says. “A lot of them have worked in certain industries or fields but saw a niche or a gap. And they’re driven. They have an idea, they have a passion to help, but they may not have all the answers.”
That’s one of the reasons behind Starter Company Plus, an entrepreneurial training program funded by the Ontario government and offered locally by the Business Advisory Centre. Applications are now open at investptbo.ca/starter until April 30th for the spring intake of the program, which will help 12 Peterborough-area entrepreneurs learn how to make their business ideas a reality and see six of them each receive a $5,000 microgrant.
VIDEO: Starter Company Plus with Peterborough & the Kawarthas Business Advisory Centre
Since the Business Advisory Centre began delivering Starter Company Plus in 2017, the program has helped over 215 local entrepreneurs and more than 174 small businesses succeed, creating over 200 jobs in the local economy. During the pandemic alone, there were seven Starter Company Plus intakes that helped 86 entrepreneurs achieve success despite the challenges of the pandemic.
Hurrell says applications for Starter Company Plus typically come from aspiring and established entrepreneurs representing a wide range of both services and products. Still, she notes, there are some typical applicants.
“We have a lot of businesses that I would classify as those in the health and wellness, including practitioners who received their training elsewhere and relocated here and are looking to start their own practice,” Hurrell explains.
“We also see a lot of makers and creators — people who had a side hustle or a passion project they were doing outside of their corporate 9-to-5 job. Pandemic downtime allowed them the opportunity to explore that a little bit more.”
“Because we cover Peterborough County, there have also been a number of applicants who have an agricultural or rural component to their business idea.”
Hurrell says entrepreneurs who apply to participate in Starter Company Plus must already have an initial idea for what they want to do and must have completed some basic market research.
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“We’re not asking for a fully developed idea, but you need to know enough about what it is you’re looking to do and where you’re looking to go,” she notes.
“You need to understand what it is that makes your idea for your product or service unique, or unique for Peterborough and the Kawarthas. You also need to have a sense of what it’s going to take to launch the business — a sense of the costs involved but also a sense of any permitting or licensing required, and what it is going to take from a marketing perspective.”
VIDEO: Why A Small Business Should Apply to Starter Company Plus
To help entrepreneurs develop their business idea, the Business Advisory Centre offers a series of live online workshops called “Business Fundamentals.” Delivered weekly, the workshops cover topics such as business planning, using the “Lean Canvas” business model, and market research. The Business Advisory Centre also offers the Small Business Toolkit, a downloadable step-by-step guide that describes what entrepreneurs need to consider before launching a business.
From there, Starter Company Plus will provide entrepreneurs with the training and assistance they need to create a detailed business plan through a series of five all-day virtual workshops over five weeks. After they successfully complete the program, entrepreneurs will submit their final business plan and pitch their business idea for a chance to receive one of six $5,000 microgrants.
Hurrell points out one of the great strengths of Starter Company Plus is the networking and relationships the program facilitates between like-minded entrepreneurs — which, she says, can be as beneficial as the microgrant itself.
VIDEO: What Starter Company Plus Entrepreneurs Learned From the Program
“They are put together in a class format, and that first class is like the first day of school — no one wants to mess up and no one wants to say the wrong thing,” Hurrell explains. “But five weeks later, especially once they’ve completed their business plan and their pitch, they are very close and continue to bounce ideas off of each other. Once they go on to finish the program and launch their business, many of them stay connected.”
The Business Advisory Centre also stays connected with the program participants. As Hurrell notes, support doesn’t end after entrepreneurs have completed Starter Company Plus.
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“Everyone who is part of the program can continue to meet with us at the Business Advisory Centre,” Hurrell says. “We meet weekly with participants as part of the training and also meet afterwards for one-on-one consultations. We stay in touch for a determined period with those who secured a microgrant. We want to see what they’re going to do, what they’re going to be using those grant dollars for, and where their business is going.”
As one example, Hurrell visited Roxanne McDonald-Brown, the owner of Renew Medi Spa, on the day of this interview. A graduate of the first Starter Company Plus cohort six years ago, McDonald-Brown has continued to grow her business and has hired team to support her.
“We want to see what happens next,” Hurrell says. “We want to see when you make that first hire or move into a brick-and-mortar location if that’s part of your plan. We stay in touch with all our participants.”
VIDEO: What Inspired Starter Company Plus Entrepreneurs to Apply
Hurrell smiles when she talks about the value of Starter Company Plus for both entrepreneurs and the local economy.
“I get a lot of satisfaction when friends and family visit Peterborough and the Kawarthas and they drive through the community and they ask ‘What’s going in there?’,” she says, referring to the opening of a new business.
“Knowing that Peterborough & the Kawarthas Economic Development and Team Ptbo had a part in that store opening and somebody’s dream is incredibly rewarding … even more so when the entrepreneur makes their first sale and moves forward with their first hire.”
VIDEO: How the Starter Company Plus microgrant benefits businesses
Entrepreneurs in the City and County of Peterborough who are launching a new business or expanding an existing one that has been operating for five years or less are eligible to apply for Starter Company Plus.
To learn more and to apply, visit investptbo.ca/starter. Applications close on Sunday, April 30th.
For those who are unable to apply or who are not selected for the spring intake of Starter Company Plus, another intake will take place in the fall.
This is one of a series of branded editorials created in partnership with Peterborough & the Kawarthas Economic Development. If your organization or business is interested in a branded editorial, contact us.
Peterborough native Chloë Black meets two dogs during a stint with Ukrainian Patriot in early 2023, when she helped deliver humanitarian aid packages to frontline soldiers and civilians in Ukraine. Her volunteer work in Ukraine followed a trip to Romainia in April 2022 when she volunteered with a group building a shelter for 800 animals displaced by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo courtesy of Chloë Black)
Parents are no doubt familiar with the uneasy feeling associated with one of your children being away from home, whether that’s for one night or an extended stay of several weeks or months.
Knowing that, it’s easier to appreciate the feeling of relief washing over Peterborough’s Al Black these days. You can see it in his face and you can hear it in his voice — his daughter Chloë is back home and all is as it should be.
For the better part of the past year, Al fretted while Chloë sweated, initially in Arad, Romania where she helped rescue and house animals from war-ravaged Ukraine, and then in Ukraine where, as a volunteer with Ukrainian Patriot, she helped deliver humanitarian aid packages to frontline soldiers and civilians living with the constant threat of shelling.
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“When she told me she was going to Ukraine, I tried to talk her out of it but, after five minutes, I realized I’m not going to win,” recounts Black, a lifelong musician best known for his time with twice Juno Award-nominated Jackson Delta.
Now, as Chloë ponders a possible future return to Ukraine, Al is helping her continue her work by organizing ‘Blues For Ukraine’, a live music-based event that will be held Sunday, April 30th from 2 to 5 p.m. at Showplace Performance Centre’s Nexicom Studio in downtown Peterborough.
General admission tickets cost $30 and are available at showplace.org, with proceeds going to Ukrainian Patriot as well as the continuing effort to rescue animals abandoned or lost amid the chaos of the past year.
A fundraising concert for relief efforts in Ukraine, Blues for Ukraine takes place on April 30, 2023 at the Nexicom Studio at Showplace Performance Centre in downtown Peterborough. (Poster: Kristal Jones)
The stage lineup will feature Al Black and the Steady Band (with Gary Peeples and Andy Pryde), Nicholas Campbell and The Two-Metre Cheaters (with Rob Foreman and Matt Greco), Dave Mowat, Dennis O’Toole and his cousin Michael O’Toole, and Jim Usher.
As well, Chloë will give a video presentation detailing her trips and the important relief work she has been involved with.
“I wanted to do something, but what do I ever have to offer but some music?” says Al. “Dennis (O’Toole) said ‘You should do something for Chloë and for her mission.’
“I don’t like to go back to the well too often. I had a little discomfort about it, hoping somebody else might step up, but it’s up to me. I put the word out to some musicians and here we are.”
“What’s going on over there is affecting everyone on the planet but it gets pushed back in the news. We should be paying close attention.”
Chloë has certainly done that, from the perspective of someone with a special place in her heart for animals. On Easter Sunday of last year — just a few weeks after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine — she answered a Facebook plea for volunteers to build an animal shelter and care for animals evacuated from war zones.
“I wanted to do something but I didn’t know what I could do,” says Chloë, who was living in Arizona at the time. “When the call out came on social media for people to help, I felt it was something I could reasonably do. I’m not a skilled labourer, but I have worked on a job site before and I know how to handle myself.”
Once in Arad, Chloë helped the volunteer group build a shelter capable of housing some 800 animals, the hope being they could be reunited with their humans or, barring that, have homes for them in other European countries.
Peterborough native Chloë Black (right) with Ukrainian Patriot in Kharkiv, Ukraine in March 2023. Founded by Saskatoon native Lana Nicole Niland, the group is comprised of Ukrainians and internationals working to aid volunteers defending Ukraine and civilians caught in the crossfire. (Photo courtesy of Chloë Black)
“Come September, Canada had a ban in place on the mass import of animals from Ukraine — certainly dogs anyway,” notes Chloë. “They called out for volunteers to go to Ukraine to help take care of animals they could no longer evacuate. That’s when I decided to cross the border and go (from Romania) into Ukraine. It was supposed to be five weeks but it ended up being eight weeks.”
Once back home from that trip, the pull to return was too strong for Chloë.
“Once didn’t feel like it was enough,” she says. “I’m not in any way comparing what I experienced to what a soldier experiences, but you do feel very disconnected from what you once felt very connected to. Now I had this perspective of what’s happening there, not just from the television. It’s actual people you know and places you’ve been.”
Chloë returned twice more, hooking up with Ukrainian Patriot. Founded by Saskatoon native Lana Nicole Niland, the group is comprised of Ukrainians and internationals working to aid volunteers defending Ukraine and civilians caught in the crossfire.
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Chloë, an accomplished competitive cyclist and Peterborough Sports Hall of Fame inductee who has represented Canada on the international stage at numerous track and road events, admits to “the worst case of nerves” before each trip that was well beyond anything she experienced prior to competing.
“Once I got there, half the battle was what was going on in my head. That’s not to say there wasn’t danger, but it was the what-ifs that made it really terrifying. There were enough situations that happened where I realized I am in a war zone and this is actually happening and I have no control over it.”
“One night we were being bombed in Kharkiv. We had bombs around us on a couple of occasions, but at four (o’clock) in the morning, it’s terrifying. It was close and it was loud. The people around you become your family at that moment. What hit me at is you think it (injury or death) is not going to happen to you. Curled up in a fetal position, I was pretty naive to think that.”
During her time in Ukraine, Peterborough native Chloë Black has witnessed the physical and human devastation from Russia’s invasion of the country, including this father who walks an hour every day to this bombed building where his son lost his life. As part of the Blues for Ukraine benefit concert on April 30, 2023, Chloë will give a video presentation detailing her trips and the important relief work she has been involved with. (Photo courtesy of Chloë Black)
For the most part, Chloë was in Kyiv, the home base for Ukrainian Patriot, but relief provision excursions took her to points well east in the embattled and very dangerous Donetsk region of the country.
“I just followed the van in front of me. We’d get instructions — ‘Now you have to put your vest on. We want your helmet in the front seat. Keep the windows cracked and heads on a swivel.’ When I came home and was looking at the route we were on, I was like ‘Wait a minute. That’s Bakhmut right there.’ We were in Kostiantynivka. I didn’t realize how close (to Russia) we were.”
Reflecting on her motivation for making the trips and putting herself in harm’s way, Chloë says she couldn’t “shut off” was happening to both people and animals. At the time, as COVID restrictions lessened, she says she had a hard time with that “after two-and-a-half years of listening to people complain about being out of chocolate chip cookies.”
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Asked if she will return to continue volunteering with Ukrainian Patriot, Chloë isn’t ruling that out, admitting she felt “very emotional” leaving to return to Canada and her relieved family.
“Seeing people older than my parents living in these buildings that have no running water and no heat … they’re grateful that we’re handing them bags of rice and cans of fruit. It’s so heartbreaking.”
“The things that drew me to sports (are) feeling like you’re part of a team and having a common goal. This felt like that on steroids because you’re doing something that’s so much more important than winning a championship.”
Now, as Al pulls together plans for Blues For Ukraine, he’s left with one inescapable thought.
“I’m proud of all our kids, but I never knew I’d have a daughter like this.”
Chloë Black (left) back home in Peterborough when her niece Lydia met Dottie, a rescue dog from Kramatorsk in Ukraine that Chloë brought to Canada after much effort. She first met Dottie in 2022 when she volunteered with a group building a shelter for 800 animals displaced by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo courtesy of Chloë Black)
Martin Boyce in 2019. He was 21 years old when he participated in the Stonewall Riots (also known as the Stonewall Uprising) in New York City's Greenwich Village of June 28, 1969. The riots are widely considered a watershed event that transformed the gay liberation movement and the 20th-century fight for 2SLGBTQ+ rights in the United States and in Canada. (Photo: James Emmerman)
Martin Boyce, one of a handful of surviving activists of the Stonewall Riots, will be speaking at Fleming College in Peterborough on Tuesday (April 18) as part of his ‘Courage to Stand Up’ tour presented by the International Day of Pink, a worldwide anti-bullying and anti-homophobia event held annually during the second week of April.
The Stonewall Riots were a series of spontaneous demonstrations by members of the gay community in response to a police raid that began at the Stonewall Inn in New York City’s Greenwich Village in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969 — a year where “homosexual acts” were illegal in every U.S. state except Illinois.
Patrons of the Stonewall and of other Greenwich Village 2SLGBTQ+ bars along with neighbourhood street people fought back when the police became violent. The riots are widely considered a watershed event that transformed the gay liberation movement and the 20th-century fight for 2SLGBTQ+ rights in the United States and in Canada.
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A New York City native, Boyce came out at the age of 18 and, at the age of 21, was a regular at the Stonewall Inn when the Stonewall Riots (also known as the Stonewall Uprising) took place. Following the riots, he continued to participate in activism, completed a degree at Hunter College in New York City, and opened a restaurant in The East Village.
Boyce will be speaking about his involvement in the Stonewall Riots and answering questions from 4 to 6 p.m. on April 18 in the Whetung Theatre at Fleming College’s Sutherland Campus at 599 Brealey Drive.
The event will also include performances by Peterborough drag artist Betty Baker and singer-songwriter Evangeline Gentle, and information tables and exhibits featuring the history of Stonewall and the 2SLGBTQ+ rights movement in Canada will be on display in the main foyer from 3 to 6 p.m.
VIDEO: “Stonewall Uprising”
This event is open to the public and everyone is welcome to attend.
Tickets are free, although you can choose to pay $5, $15, or $30 for a ticket with funds donated to International Day of Pink.
A 43-year-old woman has died as the result of a single-vehicle collision in Trent Lakes late Friday afternoon (April 14).
The collision happened at around 3:50 p.m. on Friday on County Road 507 north of Catchacoma, about halfway between Buckhorn and Gooderham.
Peterborough County OPP closed County Road 507 between Beaver Lake Road and Baldwin Bay Road for several hours to document the scene.
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On Saturday evening, police announced a 43-year-old woman from Highlands East Township in Haliburton County has been pronounced dead as a result of the collision.
Police have not released the identity of the victim.
The cause of the collision remains under investigation. Anyone who may have witnessed or has video/dash camera footage of the collision and who has not yet spoken with police is asked to contact the Peterborough County OPP at 1-888-310-1122.
Petroglyphs Provincial Park in North Kawartha Township contains the largest known concentration of ancient Indigenous petroglyphs (rock carvings) in Canada. The park's visitor centre features displays about the petroglyphs and their spiritual significance to the Ojibway (Nishnaabe) people. (Photo: Ontario Parks)
Beginning May 27, you can reserve an advance day-use vehicle permit for Petroglyphs Provincial Park in North Kawartha Township.
The park is one of 20 additional provincial parks that will adopt the service this year, bringing the total to 57 parks across the province. Algonquin, Balsam Lake, and Presqu’ile are the other provincial parks in the greater Kawarthas region that already use the service.
As of Saturday, May 27th, visitors can book a daily vehicle permit for Petroglyphs Provincial Park up to five days in advance online at reservations.ontarioparks.com, reducing the time spent registering when they arrive so they can spend more time enjoying the park. Reserving in advance also helps guarantee access to the park, especially during busy periods like weekends and holidays. At-park permits will continue to be sold, subject to availability.
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Located at 2249 Northey’s Bay Road off Highway 28 near Woodview, Petroglyphs Provincial Park contains the largest known concentration of ancient Indigenous petroglyphs (rock carvings) in Canada, depicting turtles, snakes, birds, humans, and more. This sacred site is known as “The Teaching Rocks”.
The park’s visitor centre and store, called the Learning Place, is managed by Curve Lake First Nation and features displays about the petroglyphs and their spiritual significance to the Ojibway (Nishnaabe) people. The petroglyphs are covered by a protective building, with interpretive plaques and guides at the site. Photographing and videotaping the rock carvings themselves is not permitted for spiritual reasons, and dogs are not allowed inside any of the buildings.
The park also features the bright blue-green McGinnis Lake, one of only a handful of meromictic lakes in Canada. A meromictic lake has layers of water that do not intermix. The lack of intermixing of lake waters means almost no oxygen reaches the deepest layer of the lake, where few if any organisms can survive. Because it is relatively undisturbed, the sediment at the bottom of a meromictic lake is important for researching tracing past changes in climate at the lake.
McGinnis Lake at Petroglyphs Provincial Park is one of only a handful of meromictic lakes in Canada. A meromictic lake has layers of water that do not intermix, creating a unique and fragile ecosystem. (Photo: Wikipedia)
Note that swimming is prohibited at McGinnis Lake to protect the lake’s fragile ecosystem.
Along with hiking trails and picnic tables and a picnic shelter, there are also great opportunities for wildlife viewing at Petroglyphs Provincial Park. The park borders the Peterborough Crown Game Reserve, and birds such as gray jays, wild turkeys, ruffed grouse, and various types of hawks are visible in the summer.
The park is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., except during the spring and fall when it is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays except for holiday Mondays. No vehicle access is allowed after 4 p.m., and all vehicles must exit before gates close at 5 p.m.
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Provincial parks in the greater Kawarthas region
Parks in the greater Kawarthas region include Balsam Lake near Kirkfield, Emily near Omemee, Ferris near Campbellford, Kawartha Highlands north of Buckhorn, Lake St. Peter north of Maynooth, Mark S. Burnham in Peterborough, Petroglyphs near Woodview, Presqu’ile near Brighton, Silent Lake near Apsley, and Algonquin Provincial Park — the most popular provincial park in Canada with more than 2,400 lakes and 1,200 kilometres of streams and rivers.
A concept drawing of the new Trent River crossing in Campbellford in the Municipality of Trent Hills. (Illustration courtesy of Northumberland County)
Northumberland County is hosting a public information session on April 26 where members of the community can view updated designs of the proposed new Campbellford bridge and surrounding road network improvements.
In 2017, Northumberland County received approval from the Minister of the Environment, Conservation and Parks to proceed with the design and construction of a second Trent River crossing in Campbellford in the Municipality of Trent Hills. As part of the project, improvements will be made to the surrounding road network. A environmental assessment was completed, which included numerous studies from before 2008 until 2016.
The design stage of the project was initiated in spring 2019, which included various site investigations and studies and development of the preliminary design. In the summer of 2020, a public information session was held to share the preliminary design and seek input on options and opportunities for improvements.
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“The Trent River Crossing is a generational project for the community, respecting the importance of the history and heritage of the Trent River and surrounding community,” states Denise Marshall, Northumberland County’s director of public works, in a media release. “Community input has led to the design of vibrant gathering places and enhanced community connections with the river and the community.”
The new 188-metre bridge will include two road lanes, pedestrian sidewalks and bicycle lanes, five spans, and four piers.
Surrounding road network designs will include a roundabout at the Grand Road/Alma Street intersection, a pathway between the roundabout at the Grand Road/Alma Street intersection and the Trent River to allow pedestrians and cyclists to pass along the Trent River and under the bridge, access on the east side via Second Street with an overpass over Saskatoon Avenue, and additional improvements to the surrounding road network including the addition of cycling lanes and intersection improvements.
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Updated designs of the new bridge and surrounding road network improvements will be presented at an information session on Wednesday, April 26th at Campbellford Masonic Hall (53 Front St., Campbellford).
“From the beginning, community engagement has been a vital part of this development process,” Marshall says. “Feedback from residents and businesses has helped shape new opportunities for improvements for the bridge design and the connecting road network.”
The information session takes place from 3 to 5 p.m. and again from 6 to 8 p.m. Members of the public will have an opportunity to view a presentation and displays on the updated design, ask questions, and share further feedback.
“We are excited to share the detailed design based on extensive consultation and the input we have received to date,” Marshall adds. “This design will reduce traffic backups on Grand Road and improve the safety of pedestrians near the bridge and proposed round-about.”
Environment Canada and the Province of Ontario have issued a special air quality statement for the southern Kawarthas region for Friday afternoon (April 14) due to the possibility of deteriorating air quality.
The special air quality statement is in effect for southern Peterborough County, southern Kawartha Lakes, and Northumberland County.
Hot and sunny conditions are expected to cause increasing ground-level ozone concentrations Friday afternoon in the above regions.
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Moderate-risk Air Quality Health Index (AQHI) values are possible throughout Friday afternoon, with the potential of short-term high-risk AQHI values for a couple of hours.
Individuals may experience symptoms such as increased coughing, throat irritation, headaches or shortness of breath. Children, seniors, and those with cardiovascular or lung disease, such as asthma, are especially at risk.
If you are experiencing symptoms, such as coughing or throat irritation, consider reducing or rescheduling strenuous outdoor activities until the special air quality statement is lifted. Exposure to air pollution is particularly a health concern for people with heart or breathing problems, those with diabetes, children, and elderly people.
Melissa Payne is performing with her full band (Emily Burgess, Ryan Brown, Caitlin O'Connor, and Brandon Munro) at the Gordon Best Theatre in downtown Peterborough on Saturday night to celebrate the release of her new single "So Real", with East Coast singer-songwriter R.C. Stanley opening. (Photo: Mary Zita Payne Photography)
Every Thursday, we publish live music events at pubs and restaurants in Peterborough and the greater Kawarthas region based on information that venues provide to us directly or post on their website or social media channels. Here are the listings for the week of Thursday, April 13 to Wednesday, April 19.
If you’re a pub or restaurant owner and want to be included in our weekly listings, please email our nightlifeNOW editor at nightlife@kawarthanow.com. For concerts and live music events at other venues, check out our Concerts & Live Music page.
With the exception of karaoke, we only list events with performing musicians. Venues may also host other events during the week (e.g., dancing, DJs, comedy shows).
The female suspect in a theft of cash from an apartement in a condominium building on Heritage Way in Lindsay on April 12, 2023. (Police-supplied photo)
Kawartha Lakes police are asking for the public’s help to identify a woman suspected of stealing cash from a Heritage Way residence in Lindsay on Wednesday (April 12).
Police report the suspect walked into a condominium building on Heritage Way at around 1:30 p.m.. She then entered multiple apartments before being escorted out of the building by a tenant who found her inside their apartment.
Another resident of the building heard her door open. Thinking it was someone else, she called out with no response. A short time later, she found that a quantity cash had been stolen from her wallet.
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The suspect is described as a white female approximately 5’6″ tall, with long curly brown hair and a thin build,
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact the Kawartha Lakes Police Service at 705-324-5252.
You can also submit an anonymous tip though Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) or online at khcrimestoppers.com.
The female suspect in a theft of cash from an apartement in a condominium building on Heritage Way in Lindsay on April 12, 2023. (Police-supplied photo)
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