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Bruce Head is kawarthaNOW.com's managing editor, chief technical officer, and a contributing writer. If he has any spare time, he enjoys songwriting, playing acoustic guitar, and taking photos of Cait the border collie.
The Peterborough Symphony Orchestra will perform its annual holiday concert at Showplace Performance Centre on December 2, 2023 with "Believe" featuring award-winning Canadian soprano Ariane Cossette singing beloved classic arias and the orchestra performing popular arrangements of Christmas carols and holiday favourites. (Photo: Huw Morgan)

‘Believe’ in the magic of the holidays with the Peterborough Symphony Orchestra on December...

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Orchestra will perform popular arrangements of holiday favourites with soprano Ariane Cossette singing beloved classic arias at Showplace Performance Centre.
Business Advisory Centre manager Madeleine Hurrell (top of stairs) overlooks the Peterborough-area entrepreneurs whose eight businesses were awarded a collective $39,000 in grants from the fall 2023 intake of the provincially funded Starter Company Plus program administered by Peterborough & the Kawarthas Economic Development. Sara Scheuermann of Steaped Slow Ceramics and Jordan Lyall of Jordan Lyall Photography are holding the cheque and, behind them, left to right, are Iola Taylor of Cold Duck Creamery, Cody Lewis of Cody Lewis Carpentry, Mackenzie Caldwell of Grace & Glow Beauty Studio, Meaghan Kynock of muttmix, Joe Crowley of Crowley Acres, and Katie Jackson of Wanderlight Luxury Farm Stay. (Photo courtesy of Peterborough & the Kawarthas Economic Development)

Eight more Peterborough-area small businesses get training and a financial boost from Starter Company...

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12 small businesses participated in fall intake of five-week program offered by Peterborough & the Kawarthas Business Advisory Centre.
New Stages Peterborough is presenting "It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play" at Market Hall Performing Arts Centre in downtown Peterborough for six performances from December 13 to 17, 2023. Set in a 1940s radio station before a live "studio" audience, actors (from left to right) Kerry Griffin, Megan Murphy, M. John Kennedy, Ordena Stephens-Thompson, and Brad Brackenridge will play all the characters from the movie and also create all of the sound effects. (Photo: Andy Carroll)

New Stages Peterborough brings a classic Christmas film to life on the Market Hall...

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Five actors perform all the characters in 'It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play' running for six performances December 13 to 17.
Cast and crew on the set for the Peterborough Theatre Guild's production of "The Enchanted Bookshop" by Todd Wallinger, which runs for eight performances from December 1 to 10, 2023. The family-friendly comic fantasy takes place in a used bookstore where literary characters come to life at night. (Photo courtesy of Peterborough Theatre Guild)

Peterborough Theatre Guild brings beloved literary characters to life in ‘The Enchanted Bookshop’

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Todd Wallinger's family comedy runs for eight performances from December 1 to 10 with weekend matinees.
The Township of Selwyn has received entry-level certification under Nature Canada's Bird Friendly City program. (Graphic: Bird Friendly Selwyn)

Selwyn Township is one of Canada’s four new ‘bird friendly’ cities

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Selwyn Township joins Peterborough in the Kawarthas region as two of 24 Canadian municipalities that have received the Nature Canada certification.
Lakefield's The Chocolate Rabbit is opening a new location at 72 Hunter Street East in Peterborough's East City on November 21, 2023, with a grand opening celebration on December 2. Opened and operated by the Webster family of Lakefield, the East City location is the chocolate shop's third location. (Photo: Bruce Head / kawarthaNOW)

Lakefield’s The Chocolate Rabbit opening a third location in Peterborough’s East City

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Family-owned shop will open on November 21 with a grand opening on December 2, while East City candy shop Flossophy announces it is closing after Christmas Eve.
Anne Shirley Theatre Company's production of "Alice" by British playwright Laura Wade runs for six performances from November 17 to 26 at Nozhem First Peoples Performance Space at Trent University. (Graphic: Anne Shirley Theatre Company)

Anne Shirley Theatre Company presents modern take on ‘Alice in Wonderland’ at Trent University

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'Alice' by British playwright Laura Wade runs from November 17 to 26 at Nozhem First Peoples Performance Space.
Honorary Lieutenant Colonel Lee-Anne Quinn, president of the Frank Poley (Peterborough) chapter of the Canadian Association of Veterans in United Nations Peacekeeping, speaks at the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the UN Peacekeepers Monument in Peterborough's new urban park on July 1, 2022. (Photo courtesy of Sean Bruce)

Peterborough Rotary Club names Canadian Forces veteran Lee-Anne Quinn as Paul Harris Fellow

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Along with Myke Healy and Darlene Callan, Dorothy Taylor, Kathi Curtin Williams, and Kateryna Sysoieva, Quinn will be celebrated at November 13 dinner and ceremony.
Peterborough Public Health and the Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit logos.

Two largest health units in Kawarthas region considering a voluntary merger

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Peterborough Public Health and the Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit are assessing impacts of merger in response to provincial government funding offer.
Applications open on November 1, 2023 for the City of Peterborough's 2024 community grants program, which will be modified in 2025 in part to better address the funding needs of arts organizations. In June 2023, The Theatre On King's artistic director Ryan Kerr (pictured with property manager Kristi Dick at Cherney Properties) renewed a two-year lease for the organization's 171 King Street location following a successful community fundraising campaign. The future of Peterborough's only black-box theatre had been thrown into doubt earlier in the year when city council decided against providing a community investment grant to the organization, even though the theatre had received the maximum grant the previous year. (Photo courtesy of The Theatre On King)

Applications open November 1 for City of Peterborough’s 2024 community grants program

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This is the final year for the existing program, which in 2025 will have three funding streams including a new art investment fund.
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