Sunday, May 11, 2025
Home Authors Articles by Bruce Head

Articles by Bruce Head

Bruce Head
742 Articles
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.
Josh, a member of The Biz Group, displays two of the group's hand-painted mugs created for Y Drive and Peterborough Challenger Baseball. The group is also selling "love mugs" and plans to expand with hand-painted tote bags and t-shirts. All proceeds from the sales of items go directly to members of The Biz Group, an initiative supported by the Down Syndrome Association of Peterborough. (Photo courtesy of Down Syndrome Association of Peterborough)

Peterborough adults with Down syndrome launch their own business

Bruce Head -
The Biz Group is selling custom hand-painted 'love mugs' and will be expanding to include tote bags and t-shirts.
Watson & Lou owners Erin Watson and Anna Eidt display their new "economic nutrition label", which is designed to show shoppers where the money they spend goes. The two entrepreneurs, whose core mission is to do retail differently, were inspired by the economic nutrition label developed by Shorefast, a registered Canadian charity on Fogo Island in Newfoundland. (Photo: Heather Doughty)

businessNOW – February 25, 2020

Bruce Head -
Featuring Watson & Lou's new economic nutrition label, Telus and Venture13's IoT alliance, Kawartha Lakes CFDC's new executive director, and more.
Kevin Matthew Wong performing in Broadleaf Theatre's "The Chemical Valley Project" in front of a projected photo of a refinery in Sarnia's Chemical Valley, where almost almost half of Canada's entire petrochemical industry is concentrated. Wong co-created the documentary theatre production with Julia Howman to document the activism of sisters Vanessa and Lindsay Beze Gray, two residents of Aamjiwnaang First Nation which is surrounded by Chemical Valley's petroleum refineries. Presented by Public Energy, the production runs for two performances on March 6, 2020 at Market Hall Performing Arts Centre in downtown Peterborough. (Photo: Graham Isador)

Documentary theatre explores the impact of Canada’s notorious ‘Chemical Valley’ on an indigenous community

Bruce Head -
Public Energy presents Broadleaf Theatre's acclaimed 'The Chemical Valley Project' at the Market Hall in Peterborough on March 6.
Equivalent in protein to a chicken's egg but with significantly fewer calories and less fat per serving, "the egg" is a finalist for the 2020 World Food Innovation Awards for "Best food concept", "Best ingredient innovation", and "Best plant-based alternative". (Photo: Eunite Foods / Noblegen)

businessNOW – February 18, 2020

Bruce Head -
Featuring Noblegen's first consumer product, Rolls-Royce Peterborough expansion, Kawartha Lakes business incubate, Rare restaurant, and more.
Peterborough & the Kawarthas Business Advisory Centre entrepreneurship officer Madeleine Hurrell (bottom left) with the successful applicants of the first 2020 intake of Starter Company Plus: (bottom row): Marlowe Bork, Katie Jackson, Dianna Graves, Sandra Lennox, Karen Kearney, Larissa Nicholson; back row: Matt Baylis, Jason White, Stephen Stamp, Kenny McGillvray, Eric Lennox. (Photo: Peterborough & the Kawarthas Economic Development)

businessNOW – February 11, 2020

Bruce Head -
Featuring the latest Starter Company Plus applicants, 1440 Capital investing in Aclarus Ozone, Peterborough & the Kawarthas Tourism seeking public input, Nexicom supporting 4th Line Theatre, and more.
Emily Mae's Cookies & Sweets owner Jennifer Wight (right) with Madeleine Hurrell, entrepreneurship officer at Peterborough & the Kawarthas Economic Development's Business Advisory Centre. Hurrell oversees the Starter Company Plus program, which awarded Wight a $4,000 grant in 2017 to help build her business. Wight held the grand opening of her brick-and-mortar shop at 1135 Lansdowne Street West in Peterborough on February 1, 2020. (Photo: Peterborough & the Kawarthas Economic Development / Facebook)

businessNOW – February 4, 2020

Bruce Head -
Featuring grand opening of Emily Mae's Cookies & Sweets in Peterborough, Toe Beans Cat Café in Port Hope up for sale, applications open for federal government's 2020 Canada Summer Jobs program, and more.
Bruce Cockburn performing at Showplace Performance Centre in downtown Peterborough on September 25, 2017. The legendary Canadian singer-songwriter returns to Showplace on October 16, 2020 as part of his 50th anniversary tour. (Photo: Bruce Head / kawarthaNOW.com)

Bruce Cockburn returning to Peterborough in October 2020 for 50th anniversary tour

Bruce Head -
Concert at Showplace Performance Centre will celebrate 1970 release of his self-titled debut album.
Peterborough Mayor Diane Therrien (right) spoke at the Rotary Club of Peterborough meeting at the Holiday Inn on January 27, 2020, along with Peterborough County Warden J. Murray Jones (second from right). Also pictured are Rotarians Jay Amer (at the podium) and Kevin Duguay. (Photo: Jeannine Taylor / kawarthaNOW.com)

businessNOW – January 28, 2020

Bruce Head -
Featuring Peterborough Mayor Diane Therrien and County Warden J. Murray Jones at the Rotary Club of Peterborough, Innovation Cluster's new Lindsay incubator, Michael Skinner, Omorfia, and more.
Manjit Minhas (second from left) on the set of the CBC Television series "Dragons' Den" with her fellow Dragons. Described on her website as "mother, beer baroness, entrepreneur, Dragon", Manjit will be speaking at the Innovation Cluster's Electric City Talks series at Showplace Performance Centre in Peterborough on March 10, 2020 in celebration of International Women's Day. The event is sponsored by Fleming College and will be free for all Fleming College students and $10 for members of the public. (Photo: CBC)

businessNOW – January 21, 2020

Bruce Head -
Featuring Manjit Minhas speaking in Peterborough, Kawartha Chamber's Digital Main Street initiative, Weston Foods closing Cobourg plant, free pre-apprenticeship programs at Fleming College, and more.
Karen Procyk of Peterborough collects her grand prize of $1,500 in "downtown money" at Wild Rock Outfitters on 169 Charlotte Street after her Holiday Shopping Passport was drawn at the culmination of the annual initiative by the Peterborough Downtown Business Improvement Area (DBIA) to encourage people to choose local. Also pictured is DBIA executive director Terry Guiel (left) and Wild Rock Outfitters co-owner Kieran Andrews. (Photo courtesy of Peterborough DBIA)

businessNOW – January 14, 2020

Bruce Head -
Featuring a successful Holiday Shopping Passport program in downtown Peterborough, You're Welcome, Omorfia, Starks Barber Company, Community Futures Peterborough, and more.
1...464748...75Page 47 of 75

Become a #kawarthaNOW fan

29,687FollowersLike
24,859FollowersFollow
17,824FollowersFollow
4,276FollowersFollow
3,422FollowersFollow
2,853FollowersFollow

Sign up for kawarthNOW's Enews

Sign up for our VIP Enews

kawarthaNOW.com offers two enews options to help readers stay in the know. Our VIP enews is delivered weekly every Wednesday morning and includes exclusive giveaways, and our news digest is delivered daily every morning. You can subscribe to one or both.




Submit your event for FREE!

Use our event submission form to post your event on our website — for free. To submit editorial content or ideas, please contact us.

EDITOR'S PICKS

SIGN UP FOR OUR ENEWS




© Copyright kawarthaNOW® 1996 - 2025. All rights reserved. Unauthorized distribution, transmission, or republication strictly prohibited. Trademarks owned by kawarthaNOW include kawarthaNOW®, Keep It In The Kawarthas®, Web Sites That Work®, Kawartha Localist™, Know Your Locals™, businessNOW™, musicNOW™, artNOW™, nightlifeNOW™, encoreNOW™, and KNosh™.