The fieldstone foundation is all that remains of the Alton family's historic 240-year-old barn after it was struck by lightning on August 29, 2021. The Alton's daughter has launched a GoFundMe campaign to help her parents with immediate costs from the devastating fire and to replace uninsured equipment. (Photo courtesy of Tiffany Alton-Froggatt)
After her parents lost their 240-year-old Trent Hills barn to fire last Sunday (August 29), Peterborough resident Tiffany Alton-Froggatt launched a crowdfunding campaign to help them recover from the devastating loss.
Ian and Cheryll Alton’s historic bank barn at 12th Line West in Campbellford was fully engulfed in flames minutes after it was struck by lightning last Sunday night.
While Cheryll was able to get their horses and alpacas to safety in a nearby field, their chickens perished in the fire.
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Along with the structure itself, the Altons lost tractors and other equipment, winter feed, horse tack, and more.
Although the barn was insured, the Altons have since found out from their insurance company the structure was underinsured. At a result, their insurance policy will only pay $140,000 of the $500,000 cost to rebuild the barn — and that some of the payout may also have to cover the costs of the fire department that responded to the fire, according to Alton-Froggatt.
“They had never been advised by their insurance broker that their policy should be increased from what it was 15 years ago,” Alton-Froggatt says. “They just assumed that their insurance was sufficient, and, like most of us, they also thought that they would never actually need it anyway.”
The Alton family’s barn before it was destroyed by fire following a lightning strike. (Photo courtesy of Tiffany Alton-Froggatt)
Alton-Froggatt says her parents were already dealing with financial issues before the fire, as her father was off work last year for knee-replacement surgery, was laid off during pandemic lockdowns, and only has two years left before he will have to retire.
“They are not going to be able to financially recover from this on their own,” she notes.
Alton-Froggatt adds her parents worked hard to maintain the barn over the years, replacing boards and patching the steel roof.
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“It has taken everything that they had to keep this place going,” she explains. “This farm is not a money-making venture for my parents — it is a labour of love. They have brought in rescues and nursed them back to health. They have committed to caring for animals that need ongoing medical treatment and medication, because for them, it’s about the quality of life of the animal.”
While insurance will cover some of the cost of rebuilding, Alton-Froggatt says her parents need financial help to replace tractors and other contents of the barn that were destroyed in the fire, as well as to cover immediate expenses such as feed for the animals, equipment (including shelter, gates, pens, feeders, and water troughs), and medication and veterinary care.
There’s also the significant costs of clean-up, not to mention costs associated with rebuilding including permits, architectural drawings, site surveys, raw materials, and labour.
The Alton’s barn was engulfed in flames minutes after it was struck by lightning. While they were able to save their horses and alpacas, the Alton’s chickens perished in the fire. (Photo courtesy of Tiffany Alton-Froggatt)
Alton-Froggatt has set a fundraising goal of $100,000 for her GoFundMe campaign, and so far has raised just over $7,000.
“They need all of the support that they can get, and at the moment, they are not feeling very hopeful about their future,” Alton-Froggatt says.
The fire also destroyed tractors and other equipment, along with animal feed and other items stored in the barn. (Photo courtesy of Tiffany Alton-Froggatt)
Shantelle Bisson (sitting) with staff at Shantilly's Place on Chandos Lake in North Kawartha Township, which raised thousands of dollars earlier this summer for the Indian Residential School Survivors Society. The best-selling parenting author and former actress and her husband, Murdoch Mysteries' actor Yannick Bisson, built a cottage on Chandos Lake in 2018 and subsequently purchased and renovated the then-closed West Bay Narrows Marina. The couple, who recently became first-time grandparents, now own a second cottage on Chandos Lake. (Photo courtesy of Shantelle Bisson)
For parenting expert and entrepreneur Shantelle Bisson, downtime isn’t frequent. The former actress and now best-selling author splits her time between Los Angeles and Toronto so, when she does get a moment to unwind and have fun, she likes to do it in the Kawarthas at her cottage.
Shantelle is married to actor Yannick Bisson, who has played the role of Detective William Murdoch on the CBC television series Murdoch Mysteries since 2008. Shantelle and Yannick are lovers of the Kawarthas, now owning two cottages and a marina on Chandos Lake in North Kawartha Township.
Shantelle speaks with me by phone on an exciting Thursday afternoon. Her pregnant eldest daughter Brianna just reached her due date the day prior. The day after our interview, Rory Ian Franklin — Shantelle and Yannick’s first grandchild — was born. With two more adult daughters, Shantelle suspects Rory is the first of many grandchildren to come.
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With her children and future grandchildren in mind, Shantelle is curating another special place for her family at Chandos Lake. Their second cottage will be a place they can rent or lend to trusted friends and family who come to visit. They also have a garage currently in construction at their first property, with extra bedrooms for visiting family members and an office for Shantelle.
Owning and driving to a cottage is something the Bissons never thought they would ever do, since summers are the busiest season in an actor’s life. But one weekend in 2017, the couple found themselves at Chandos Lake for a short holiday. While staying at Shantelle’s best friend’s cottage, their opinion of cottaging quickly changed.
“We were sitting there on her beautiful west-facing property with a spectacular view,” Shantelle recalls. “We fell in love. There was this rundown little shack right next to her cottage. Yannick asked what was going on with it, and the answer was that my friend’s dad had bought it. It was so close to their cottage that he wanted to make sure it stayed in the family.”
Since the Bissons were considered family, it didn’t take much for Shantelle and Yannick to convince her friend’s father to sell the cottage to them.
According to Shantelle, they have fallen hard and fast for Chandos Lake for many reasons. First of all, it is close enough to Toronto to support their lifestyle and work schedule.
But, according to Shantelle, the most significant appeal of the area is its small-town rural feel. Unlike the Muskokas, the Kawarthas doesn’t feel like an extension of Toronto. It is a place where she can truly relax and get away from the hustle and bustle of the city.
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“I don’t want to go away to more of Toronto,” Shantelle says. “I’m trying to get away from all that pressure and stress. It felt like the region was more about being in nature, and going up there to leave the city behind. That really appealed to us.”
“It feels like when you walk around, everybody knows everybody,” she adds. “It felt like a nice blend of small town.”
It wasn’t long after purchasing their first cottage that Shantelle fell in love with another Chandos Lake property: the then-closed West Bay Narrows Marina. The couple moved into their cottage at the beginning of July 2018 and, by that September, owned the marina — which they renovated and rebranded as Shantilly’s Place (inspired by Yannick’s pet name for Shantelle).
Yannick and Shantelle Bisson after Shantilly’s Place (formerly West Bay Narrows Marina) opened on May 17, 2019. Also pictured is artist Terri Butler (right), who gifted the couple a painting of the original West Bay Narrows Marina. (Photo courtesy of Shantelle Bisson)
It all started when Shantelle became aware of how cottagers on Chandos Lake were being affected by the marina’s closure. While there were other marinas on the lake, she felt that they didn’t provide everything they could for cottagers, including her own family..
“I thought, ‘Okay, I’m going to live on this lake. At some point, I’m going to have grandchildren on this lake. This isn’t going to do,'” Shantelle explains.
One day, she visited the marina. Although she originally had no intention of purchasing it, Shantelle made an offer on the spot after seeing it.
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Yannick and Shantelle Bisson’s cottage on Chandos Lake was profiled in the May 2019 issue of Cottage Life magazine. (Photo: Cottage Life)
“The only thing I can say is that a spirit came over me,” she says. “I was completely taken over, and it was like a message came through to me that I had to buy it.”
After purchasing the marina, Shantelle says she has put a lot of money into improving the original building and adding amenities.
“It really mattered to me that I respect the community’s attachment to the marina,” she says. “I obviously wanted to update it and bring it all up to code, but also to make it cute and inviting and memorable. I wanted people to miss Shantilly’s Place when they weren’t there.”
Shantelle says she wanted to structure the marina to accommodate busy people, like herself and Yannick, who don’t have a lot of time to shop for everything they need before heading to the cottage.
“Those people could come to Shantilly’s Place and get everything they needed for the weekend,” Shantelle adds.
That’s why the offerings at Shantilly’s Place go over and above those of a typical marina. In addition to grocery essentials and 31 flavours of ice cream, they offer subs made on site, breakfast sandwiches, specialty coffee, croissants, muffins, wood-fired pizzas, and more.
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Shantilly’s Place also offers by-boat delivery for their Pizza Libretto pizzas, subs, and grocery orders.
Shantelle says she wants to expand Shantilly’s Place’s offerings even more, but has been limited by local by-laws. While she feels strongly about keeping the Chandos Lake charm, at the same time she wishes the area allowed for more sustainable growth.
“It would be great to keep the charming small-town feel but still have progress,” Shantelle notes. “I think the only downside I’ve experienced in being a business owner and cottager in the Kawarthas region is the difficulty of getting through the red tape of trying to revitalize.”
Shantelle Bisson and her husband Yannick Bisson, pictured with their daughters Mikaela (left), Brianna (middle right), and Dominique (right). The Bisson family has recently grown a member as Brianna’s son Rory was born on August 22, 2021. (Photo: Ryan Emberley)
That being said, Shantelle has already made some changes. Shantilly’s Place added a walk-up window last summer when customers were not allowed in the store because of the pandemic. Shantelle says it’s an important addition that will be used for years to come. Although customers can again enter the store, having some customers order from the window allows for more physical distancing inside the marina.
Despite the pandemic, Shantelle says things have gone remarkably well over the past two years at the marina, and she credits her staff for Shantilly’s Place’s successes.
“This is a family place, and it’s always going to be consistent regardless of the pandemic,” says Shantelle. “The service remains top notch. My staff are awesome.”
Shantelle Bisson celebrating the completion of her second parenting book, “Parenting Your Teen Without Losing Your Cool”, which was published earlier this year. As well as being an author, Shantelle oversees the operation of Shantilly’s Place on Chandos Lake. (Photo courtesy of Shantelle Bisson)
While Shantelle and Yannick are adding a garage at their cottage that will include an office for Shantelle to do marina-related work, the cottage remains a place for fun and relaxation.
“The bulk of the work is behind the scenes in April and May,” Shantelle explains. “Day in and day out operations are handled by my staff.”
This leaves the summer for the Bissons to use the cottage as a place to relax and for Shantelle to write. She is a best-selling author of two parenting books: 2020’s Raising Your Kids Without Losing Your Cool and 2021’s Parenting Your Teen Without Losing Your Cool.
Yannick Bisson has played the role of Detective William Murdoch on the CBC television series “Murdoch Mysteries” since 2008. Yannick and Shantelle, both now 52 years old, have been married for 34 years. They first met in high school, met again a few years later during an audition for a commercial, got married when they were 18, and had their first child at 19. Their three daughters are the inspiration for Shantelle’s two best-selling parenting books, “Raising Your Kids Without Losing Your Cool” and “Parenting Your Teen Without Losing Your Cool”. (Photo courtesy of Shantelle Bisson)
The garage will also serve as space for her growing family to stay in when they visit. When they first built their cottage, Shantelle says two of her three daughters lived in Los Angeles. Now, the cottage is a hot spot for her entire family, and Shantelle wants to make more room for everyone to stay.
Shantelle is excited to welcome her newest family member, grandson Rory, up to the cottage before this cottage season ends. As a parenting expert, Shantelle — who expects her current grandchild and any future ones to refer to her as “Shantilly” rather than “Grandma” — is preparing for the new adventure of grandparenting.
“It took me a while to be comfortable with the fact that I’m going to be a grandparent,” she says. “As a parent of adult children, this is the whole learning process of ‘you’ve done the work.’ Yannick and I are now at the point where we say our peace, give our advice, and then have to be okay with whatever decision they make. That is, I imagine, going to be ten-fold to hold onto as a grandparent.”
In addition to pursuing their careers, Shantelle and Yannick Bisson are involved with many charities. Pictured are Shantelle and Yannik at an event for ‘Coast to Coast Against Cancer Foundation’, Canada’s leading national charity for childhood cancer. (Photo courtesy of Shantelle Bisson)
Shantilly’s Place is located at 77 Narrows Road on Chandos Lake, around 10 kilometres northeast of Apsley. For more information, visit shantillysplace.com.
You can find Shantelle @shantellebisson on Instagram to follow her journey as a parenting expert, business owner, and new grandmother.
Here’s an update on COVID-19 cases in Ontario as well as in the greater Kawarthas region.
Ontario is reporting 811 new cases today, with the seven-day average of daily cases increasing by 10 to 756.
No update on Labour Day
There will be no COVID-19 report on Labour Day (Monday, September 6) as neither the province nor regional health units will be providing updates.
Of Ontario’s 34 health units, 2 are reporting triple-digit increases — Toronto (156) and Peel (100) — with 13 reporting double-digit increases — Hamilton (71), Windsor-Essex (68), York (59), Ottawa (52), Durham (46), Niagara (42), Halton (33), Waterloo (27), Middlesex-London (24), Eastern Ontario (19), Simcoe Muskoka (34), Brant (11), and Peterborough (10) — and 5 reporting no new cases at all.
Of the new cases, 71% are people who have not been fully vaccinated (59% have not received any doses and 12% have received only one dose) and 21% are people who have been fully vaccinated with two doses, with the vaccination status unknown for 8% of the cases because of a missing or invalid health card number.
Hospitalizations have dropped by 43 to 266, but the number of hospitalizations is likely higher as more than 10% of hospitals did not provide numbers of the daily bed census yesterday. The number of ICU patients has increased by 7 to 179 and the number of ICU patients on ventilators has increased by 7 to 104.
Ontario is reporting 3 COVID-related deaths, but 2 of these occurred more than 2 months ago and are being reported today as part of a data clean-up, so there was 1 new COVID-related death yesterday.
Almost 21 million vaccine doses have been administered, an increase of 32,450 from yesterday, with over 10 million people fully vaccinated, an increase of 18,089 from yesterday, representing almost 68% of Ontario’s total population.
COVID-19 cases in Ontario from August 5 – September 4, 2021. The red line is the number of new cases reported daily, and the dotted green line is a five-day rolling average of new cases. (Graphic: kawarthaNOW.com)COVID-19 hospitalizations and ICU admissions in Ontario from August 5 – September 4, 2021. The red line is the daily number of COVID-19 hospitalizations, the dotted green line is a five-day rolling average of hospitalizations, and the purple line is the daily number of patients with COVID-19 in ICUs. (Graphic: kawarthaNOW.com)COVID-19 vaccinations in Ontario from August 5 – September 4, 2021. The red line is the cumulative number of daily doses administered and the green line is the cumulative number of people fully vaccinated with two doses of vaccine. (Graphic: kawarthaNOW.com)
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Numbers are unavailable for Peterborough, Kawartha Lakes, Haliburton, Northumberland, and Hastings Prince Edward as the respective health units do not issue reports on weekends or statutory holidays.
However, for September 4, the Ontario data is showing 10 new cases for Peterborough Public Health, 4 new cases for the Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit, and 3 new cases for Hastings Prince Edward Public Health. Regional numbers for the weekend and Labour Day will be confirmed in the next updates from regional health units.
As of September 3, there were 66 active cases in the greater Kawarthas region, including 38 in Hastings Prince Edward (17 in Belleville, 12 in Central Hastings, 5 in Quinte West, 3 in Prince Edward County, and 1 in Tyendinaga & Deseronto), 17 in Peterborough, 6 in Kawartha Lakes, and 5 in Northumberland. There are no active cases in Haliburton.
Since the pandemic began in the greater Kawarthas region, there have been 1,694 confirmed positive cases in the Peterborough area (1,655 resolved with 22 deaths), 1,233 in the City of Kawartha Lakes (1,183 resolved with 58 deaths), 972 in Northumberland County (950 resolved with 17 deaths), 127 in Haliburton County (126 resolved with 1 death), and 1,288 in Hastings and Prince Edward counties (1,238 resolved with 12 deaths). The most recent death was reported in Hastings Prince Edward on July 28.
Toronto's Lua Shayenne Dance Company (pictured) and American solo dance artists Caleb Teicher and Nic Gareiss are performing in "Heirloom", an outdoor double bill of mixed dance in Peterborough and Lakefield on September 11, 2021, presented by Toronto's Fall for Dance North in partnership with Peterborough's Public Energy Performing Arts. (Photo: Dahlia Katz)
A outdoor double bill of mixed dance is coming to Peterborough and Lakefield on Saturday, September 11th with Heirloom, featuring a premiere performance by Toronto’s Lua Shayenne Dance Company followed by a collaboration between acclaimed American dance artists Caleb Teicher and Nic Gareiss.
Presented by Toronto’s Fall for Dance North in partnership with Peterborough’s Public Energy Performing Arts, Heirloom takes place at 1 p.m. at Millennium Park in Peterborough and again at 6 p.m. at Isabel Morris Park in Lakefield. In case of rain on Saturday, the performances of Heirloom will move to Sunday at the same time and location.
To adhere to pandemic health and safety requirements, the audience for each performance is limited to 120 people. Tickets are $15 per person, available now at ffdnorth.com/programs/heirloom-peterborough.
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“Thanks to the support and vision of our regional partners, Heirloom has blossomed into a performance series we are incredibly proud to present,” says Ilter Ibrahimof, artistic director of Fall for Dance North, in a media release. “It not only takes public health recommendations into account through an innovative new outdoor setting, but also advances Fall for Dance North’s mission of making diverse dance forms accessible to as wide an audience as possible.”
“As part of our outdoor Pivot 2.0 Series, Public Energy is very excited to be bringing Fall For Dance North’s world class percussive dance program to the Peterborough/Nogojiwanong area for performances in Peterborough and the neighbouring town of Lakefield,” adds Bill Kimball, executive director of Public Energy Performing Arts.
Around 60 minutes in length, Heirloom begins with the world premiere of “Waves” by the Lua Shayenne Dance Company. Lua Shayenne is a choreographer for the National Ballet School’s 2021 Sharing Dance program and tours internationally with Lars Jan’s Holoscenes, a multidisciplinary water installation on climate change.
VIDEO: “Waves” and “Vagues” work in progress
Shayenne’s dance company draws on the aesthetics and values of West African dance and culture — integrating live drumming, singing , and storytelling — to create dance pieces that seek to upset and challenge multiple conventions and stereotypes.
David MacFarlane of the Toronto Star called the Lua Shayenne Dance Company “a small group of gifted, fearlessly energetic young dancers” and Martha Schabas of the Globe and Mail said the choreography is “riveting to watch” with complex rhythms “attacked with nimble feet and swinging arms.”
After the premiere of Waves, which will be followed by a brief intermission, U.S. dancers and choreographers Caleb Teicher and Nic Gareiss will present their acclaimed duo project in Ontario for the first time.
Commissioned by Fall for Dance North, Caleb Teicher and Nic Gareiss’s duo project draws from tap, jazz, swing, Lindy Hop, Appalachian clogging, and Irish step dance to seamlessly weave witty informality with virtuosic technique and storytelling. (Photos: : Hillary Rees)
The pair, who describe themselves as kindred spirits, first came together at a week-long retreat for percussive tap, clog, flatfoot, and step dancers.
Based in New York City, Teicher is a founding member of Michelle Dorrance’s critically acclaimed tap dance company Dorrance Dance and has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra, composer andpianist Conrad Tao, indie legends Ben Folds and, most recently, with Regina Spektor on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Originally from Michigan, Gareiss draws from many percussive dance traditions and has performed in 15 countries around the world, with the New York Times hailing him for his “dexterous melding of Irish and Appalachian dance.”
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Commissioned by Fall for Dance North, the pair’s duo project draws from tap, jazz, swing, Lindy Hop, Appalachian clogging, and Irish step dance to seamlessly weave witty informality with virtuosic technique and storytelling.
“The program with Caleb Teicher and Nic Gareiss will be of special interest to this area as it has such a strong step-dancing culture, with performers who are recognized around the country,” Kimball says, Most notable, of course, is Lakefield’s own Leahy family.
For more information about Public Energy’s Pivot 2.0 series of site-specific performances intended for physically distanced outdoor audiences, visit publicenergy.ca/performance/pivot-2-0/.
kawarthaNOW is proud to be a long-time media sponsor of Public Energy Performing Arts.
Here’s an update on COVID-19 cases in Ontario as well as in the greater Kawarthas region.
Ontario is reporting 944 new cases today, the highest daily increase since May 30 when 1,033 cases were reported. The seven-day average of daily cases has increased 16 to 746.
Of Ontario’s 34 health units, 4 are reporting triple-digit increases — Toronto (181), Peel (118), Windsor-Essex (113), and York (112) — with 11 reporting double-digit increases — Hamilton (92), Ottawa (39), Niagara (35), Waterloo (30), Simcoe Muskoka (29), Durham (28), Halton (28), Brant (22), Middlesex-London (21), Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph (19), and Chatham-Kent (18) — and 5 reporting no new cases at all.
Of the new cases, 69% are people who have not been fully vaccinated (59% have not received any doses and 10% have received only one dose) and 22% are people who have been fully vaccinated with two doses, with the vaccination status unknown for 9% of the cases because of a missing or invalid health card number.
Hospitalizations have decreased by 17 to 309, the number of ICU patients has increased by 3 to 172, and the number of ICU patients on ventilators has decreased by 8 to 97. Ontario is reporting 9 COVID-related deaths, but 5 of these occurred more than 2 months ago and are being reported today as part of a data clean-up, so there were 4 new COVID-related deaths yesterday.
Over 20.9 million vaccine doses have been administered, an increase of 45,886 from yesterday, with over 10 million people fully vaccinated, an increase of 24,636 from yesterday, representing 67.8% of Ontario’s total population.
COVID-19 cases in Ontario from August 4 – September 3, 2021. The red line is the number of new cases reported daily, and the dotted green line is a five-day rolling average of new cases. (Graphic: kawarthaNOW.com)COVID-19 hospitalizations and ICU admissions in Ontario from August 4 – September 3, 2021. The red line is the daily number of COVID-19 hospitalizations, the dotted green line is a five-day rolling average of hospitalizations, and the purple line is the daily number of patients with COVID-19 in ICUs. (Graphic: kawarthaNOW.com)COVID-19 vaccinations in Ontario from August 4 – September 3, 2021. The red line is the cumulative number of daily doses administered and the green line is the cumulative number of people fully vaccinated with two doses of vaccine. (Graphic: kawarthaNOW.com)
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Numbers are unavailable for Peterborough, Kawartha Lakes, Haliburton, Northumberland, and Hastings Prince Edward as the respective health units do not issue reports on weekends. Regional numbers for Saturday, Sunday, and Monday (a statutory holiday) will be included in Tuesday’s update.
As of September 3, there were 66 active cases in the greater Kawarthas region, including 38 in Hastings Prince Edward (17 in Belleville, 12 in Central Hastings, 5 in Quinte West, 3 in Prince Edward County, and 1 in Tyendinaga & Deseronto), 17 in Peterborough, 6 in Kawartha Lakes, and 5 in Northumberland. There are no active cases in Haliburton.
Since the pandemic began in the greater Kawarthas region, there have been 1,694 confirmed positive cases in the Peterborough area (1,655 resolved with 22 deaths), 1,233 in the City of Kawartha Lakes (1,183 resolved with 58 deaths), 972 in Northumberland County (950 resolved with 17 deaths), 127 in Haliburton County (126 resolved with 1 death), and 1,288 in Hastings and Prince Edward counties (1,238 resolved with 12 deaths). The most recent death was reported in Hastings Prince Edward on July 28.
Labour Day celebrates the collective accomplishments of the labour movement in improving working conditions and justice for workers, as symbolized by this memorial in Millennium Park erected by the Peterborough District Labour Council and dedicated to workers past, present, and future. (Photo: Lester Balajadia)
Labour Day is a federal statutory holiday falling on the first Monday of September. Since Labour Day is a statutory holiday, all government offices and services and all liquor stores are closed, although a few beer stores are open. Most grocery stores are also open — except in the City of Peterborough, where all major grocery stores are closed on Labour Day. Most malls and big box stores are closed.
For your convenience, we provide this list of holiday hours for 265 selected businesses and services across the Kawarthas. This information comes from their websites and social media accounts, which may or may not be up to date, so please always call them first to confirm their hours (we’ve included phone numbers), especially when you are travelling any distance. Where you see “call to confirm”, that means we either couldn’t find any information or we don’t have a lot of confidence the hours listed on a business’s website are up to date.
If your business or organization is listed and the hours are incorrect, please let us know by using our content feedback form. We do not list restaurants as there are too many to include.
Bewdley Community Recycling Centre 7650 County Rd. 9, Hamilton 905-342-2514
CLOSED
Brighton Community Recycling Centre 1112 County Rd. 26, Brighton 613-475-1946
CLOSED
Canada Post Mail Delivery / Offices (Note: post offices operated by the private sector will be open according to the hours of service of the host business
No collection or delivery
City of Kawartha Lakes City Hall, Municipal Service Centres, and Administration Offices 26 Francis St., Lindsay 705-324-9411
CLOSED
City of Kawartha Lakes Parks, Recreation and Culture facilities, arenas, and pools Various locations, City of Kawartha Lakes 705-324-9411
CLOSED
City of Kawartha Lakes Public Libraries Various locations, City of Kawartha Lakes 705-324-9411 x1291
CLOSED
City of Kawartha Lakes Waste and Recycling Collection 26 Francis St., Lindsay 1-888-822-2225
Sep 6 collection moves to Sep 7, Sep 7 to 8, Sep 8 to 9, Sep 9 to 10
City of Peterborough Day Cares Peterborough 705-748-8830
CLOSED
City of Peterborough Garbage Pickup Peterborough 705-745-1386
No change
City of Peterborough Green Waste Pickup Peterborough 705-876-1600
No change
City of Peterborough Recycling Pickup Peterborough 705-876-1600
No change
City of Peterborough Social Services Peterborough 705-748-8830
Here’s an update on COVID-19 cases in Ontario as well as in the greater Kawarthas region.
Ontario is reporting 807 new cases today, with the seven-day average of daily cases increasing by 3 to 730.
Of Ontario’s 34 health units, 2 are reporting triple-digit increases (Toronto with 175 cases and Peel with 135 cases), with 12 reporting double-digit increases — York (85), Windsor-Essex (72), Durham (50), Hamilton (46), Ottawa (39), Niagara (28), Simcoe Muskoka (23), Halton (22), Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph (19), Middlesex-London (18), Waterloo (17), and Chatham-Kent (10) — and 5 reporting no new cases at all.
Of the new cases, 70% are people who have not been fully vaccinated (62% have not received any doses and 8% have received only one dose) and 22% are people who have been fully vaccinated with two doses, with the vaccination status unknown for 7% of the cases.
Hospitalizations have increased by 6 to 326, the number of ICU patients has increased by 7 to 169, and the number of ICU patients on ventilators has jumped by 18 to 105. Ontario is reporting 6 COVID-related deaths, but 2 of these occurred more than 2 months ago and are being reported today as part of a data clean-up, so there were 4 new COVID-related deaths yesterday.
Almost 20.9 million vaccine doses have been administered, an increase of 43,855 from yesterday, with over 10 million people fully vaccinated, an increase of 22,571 from yesterday, representing almost 67.7% of Ontario’s total population.
COVID-19 cases in Ontario from August 3 – September 2, 2021. The red line is the number of new cases reported daily, and the dotted green line is a five-day rolling average of new cases. (Graphic: kawarthaNOW.com)COVID-19 hospitalizations and ICU admissions in Ontario from August 3 – September 2, 2021. The red line is the daily number of COVID-19 hospitalizations, the dotted green line is a five-day rolling average of hospitalizations, and the purple line is the daily number of patients with COVID-19 in ICUs. (Graphic: kawarthaNOW.com)COVID-19 vaccinations in Ontario from August 3 – September 2, 2021. The red line is the cumulative number of daily doses administered and the green line is the cumulative number of people fully vaccinated with two doses of vaccine. (Graphic: kawarthaNOW.com)
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In the greater Kawarthas region, there are 14 new cases to report, including 8 in Hastings Prince Edward, 3 in Northumberland, 2 in Kawartha Lakes, and 1 in Peterborough. There are no new cases in Haliburton.
An additional 12 cases have been resolved in the region, including 5 in Kawartha Lakes, 3 in Peterborough, 3 in Hastings Prince Edward, and 1 in Peterborough. An outbreak at RONA in Lindsay has been declared resolved.
The number of active cases has increased by 2 in Northumberland and by 1 in Hastings Prince Edwards, and has decreased by 4 in Kawartha Lakes and by 2 in Peterborough.
New, resolved, and active cases in Hastings Prince Edward, Kawartha Lakes, and Northumberland are over the past 2 days.
There are currently 66 active cases in the greater Kawarthas region, a decrease of 3 from September 1, including 38 in Hastings Prince Edward (17 in Belleville, 12 in Central Hastings, 5 in Quinte West, 3 in Prince Edward County, and 1 in Tyendinaga & Deseronto), 17 in Peterborough, 6 in Kawartha Lakes, and 5 in Northumberland. There are no active cases in Haliburton.
Since the pandemic began in the greater Kawarthas region, there have been 1,694 confirmed positive cases in the Peterborough area (1,655 resolved with 22 deaths), 1,233 in the City of Kawartha Lakes (1,183 resolved with 58 deaths), 972 in Northumberland County (950 resolved with 17 deaths), 127 in Haliburton County (126 resolved with 1 death), and 1,288 in Hastings and Prince Edward counties (1,238 resolved with 12 deaths). The most recent death was reported in Hastings Prince Edward on July 28.
A 75-year-old Oakville man is dead following a three-vehicle collision Thursday afternoon (September 2) on Highway 35 north of Pontypool in Kawarthas Lakes.
At around 1:30 p.m. a passenger vehicle attempted to pass a transport truck on the highway, resulting in a collision.
The transport truck caught fire and sustained extensive damage. Another transport truck that was involved in the collision sustained minor damage.
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The driver of the passenger vehicle, who police have identified as 75-year-old Oliver Gomes of Oakville, was pronounced dead at the scene.
A passenger in the vehicle was transported to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Highway 35 was closed until Friday morning while police completed an investigation.
Susan Zambonin, the new CEO of Habitat for Humanity Peterborough & Kawartha Region. (Photo courtesy of Habitat for Humanity Peterborough & Kawartha Region)
Habitat for Humanity Peterborough & Kawartha Region has announced Susan Zambonin will be the non-profit organization’s new chief executive officer effective October 4.
Zambonin, who is currently the organization’s chief operating officer, has been involved with Habitat for Humanity for 18 years. She was previously chief executive officer of Habitat for Humanity Kingston Limestone Region and Habitat for Humanity PEI, and also served as executive officer of the Canadian Home Builders’ Association in PEI.
A Rotarian and volunteer, Zambonin has won several awards, including a Paul Harris Fellow from the Rotary Club of Charlottetown and an International Outstanding Contribution Award, Mentorship Award, and Award of Excellence from Habitat for Humanity Canada.
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“With Susan’s extensive leadership experience, construction knowledge, and determination to build more affordable homes, we are confident that we can help more families across the Peterborough and Kawartha Region achieve affordable homeownership,” says Jill Bennett, chair of the board of directors for Habitat for Humanity Peterborough & Kawartha Region, in a media release.
“Susan has a proven commitment to Habitat’s core values, helping over 110 families into affordable homeownership through 66 builds in Canada and four global village builds.”
Zambonin will take over from Sarah Budd, who announced in July she would be leaving the chief executive officer position on October 1.
Budd led Humanity Peterborough & Kawartha Region for almost 15 years, overseeing the organization’s inclusion of the City of Kawartha Lakes and the County of Haliburton in its service area, the expansion from one ReStore to three ReStores, and Habitat for Humanity Canada’s first-ever multi-residential development at Leahy’s Lane in Peterborough.
“The board would like to thank Sarah for her amazing contributions and commitment during her time as CEO,” reads a media release. “Most recently, her leadership and vision were instrumental in managing the organization through the pandemic and moving the organization from a builder of single-family homes to a developer of multi-residential communities.”
Here’s an update on COVID-19 cases in Ontario as well as in the greater Kawarthas region.
Ontario is reporting 865 new cases today, the highest increase in daily cases since June 4 when 914 cases were reported. The seven-day average of daily cases has increased by 27 to 727.
Of Ontario’s 34 health units, 2 are reporting triple-digit increases (Toronto with 175 cases and Peel with 104 cases), with 14 reporting double-digit increases — York (91), Hamilton (89), Simcoe Muskoka (51), Windsor-Essex (48), Ottawa (39), Niagara (33), Middlesex-London (27), Eastern Ontario (24), Brant (23), Waterloo (23), Durham (22), Chatham-Kent (22), Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph (22), and Halton (19) — and 4 reporting no new cases at all.
Of the new cases, 72% are people who have not been fully vaccinated (62% have not received any doses and 10% have received only one dose) and 20% are people who have been fully vaccinated with two doses, with the vaccination status unknown for 7% of the cases.
Hospitalizations have fallen by 19 to 320, the number of ICU patients has decreased by 1 to 162, and the number of ICU patients on ventilators has decreased by 9 to 87. Ontario is reporting 14 COVID-related deaths, but 9 of these occurred more than 2 months ago and are being reported today as part of a data clean-up, so there were 5 new COVID-related deaths yesterday.
Over 20.8 million vaccine doses have been administered, an increase of 35,152 from yesterday, with almost 10 million people fully vaccinated, an increase of 19,460 from yesterday, representing 67.5% of Ontario’s total population.
COVID-19 cases in Ontario from August 2 – September 1, 2021. The red line is the number of new cases reported daily, and the dotted green line is a five-day rolling average of new cases. (Graphic: kawarthaNOW.com)COVID-19 hospitalizations and ICU admissions in Ontario from August 2 – September 1, 2021. The red line is the daily number of COVID-19 hospitalizations, the dotted green line is a five-day rolling average of hospitalizations, and the purple line is the daily number of patients with COVID-19 in ICUs. (Graphic: kawarthaNOW.com)COVID-19 vaccinations in Ontario from August 2 – September 1, 2021. The red line is the cumulative number of daily doses administered and the green line is the cumulative number of people fully vaccinated with two doses of vaccine. (Graphic: kawarthaNOW.com)
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In the greater Kawarthas region, Peterborough is reporting 1 new case with 2 additional cases resolved, decreasing the number of active cases by 1 to 19. Numbers are unavailable for Kawartha Lakes, Haliburton, Northumberland, and Hastings Prince Edward as the respective health units only issue reports on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Numbers for Thursday will be included in Friday’s update.
There are currently 69 active cases in the greater Kawarthas region, a decrease of 1 from yesterday, including 37 in Hastings Prince Edward (15 in Belleville, 11 in Central Hastings, 6 in Quinte West, 4 in Prince Edward County, and 1 in Tyendinaga & Deseronto), 19 in Peterborough, 10 in Kawartha Lakes, and 3 in Northumberland. There are no active cases in Haliburton.
Since the pandemic began in the greater Kawarthas region, there have been 1,693 confirmed positive cases in the Peterborough area (1,652 resolved with 22 deaths), 1,232 in the City of Kawartha Lakes (1,177 resolved with 58 deaths), 969 in Northumberland County (949 resolved with 17 deaths), 127 in Haliburton County (126 resolved with 1 death), and 1,278 in Hastings and Prince Edward counties (1,219 resolved with 12 deaths). The most recent death was reported in Hastings Prince Edward on July 28.
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