Authors Articles by April Potter

Articles by April Potter

April Potter
33 Articles
April Potter is a contributing writer located in Northumberland County. Her freelance work has been featured in a number of publications including Destination Weddings, Wedding Vacations, and My Business Magazine. Online she has contributed nationally across Corus radio station websites as a music and pop culture writer. Today she runs her own copywriting and social media management business. Follow her on Instagram @followapotter.
Carmela Mangos, co-owner of Sugar Dust Bakery & Cafe, and her husband George have launched a "pay-it-forward" meal program where customers can buy lunch for a person in need. Unlike similar pay-it-forward programs, the Mangoses provide customer-purchased meal vouchers to local community organizations who identify people to receive the free meal. (Photo: April Potter / kawarthaNOW.com)

Port Hope’s Sugar Dust Bakery & Cafe is paying it forward

Restaurant's program offers customers an opportunity to buy a nutritious lunch for community members in need.
Maddy Paulson-Carlin, a student at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Secondary School in Lindsay, is working towards her high school diplomas while learning the skilled trade of welding through the Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program. (Photo: Galen Eagle / PVNC Catholic District School Board)

Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program helps break gender stereotypes in the skilled trades

Ontario high school students get a head start in their trade of choice with a co-operative education advantage.
Northumberland-Peterborough South MP Kim Rudd cuts the ribbon officially opening Venture13, Cobourg's new innovation and entrepreneurship centre for Northumberland County, along with repreentatives from the Town of Cobourg, Northumberland Community Futures Development Corporation, Cobourg Police Service, Fleming College, Northumberland Makers and more. (Photo: Jeannine Taylor / kawarthaNOW.com)

Opening of Venture13 a ‘great day for Cobourg and all of Eastern Ontario’

New innovation and entrepreneurship centre features VentureZone, MakerLab, 80-seat lecture hall, and more.

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