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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 City of Kawartha Lakes' Million Dollar Makeover offers matching fund grants of up to 50 per cent to business and property owners in the downtown areas of Coboconk (pictured), Lindsay, Omemee, Norland, and Fenelon Falls. The funds can cover costs of signage, façade work, and building repair and renovations. Low-interest loans are also available to property owners across the municipality. The deadline to apply for the program is January 17, 2019. (Photo courtesy of the City of Kawartha Lakes)

businessNOW – January 7, 2019

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Featuring Million Dollar Makeover in Kawartha Lakes, new FedDev Ontario funding, Inclusive Advisory, grand openings of Nateure's Plate and Juniper, and more.
Our top story for 2018 was the Peterborough Humane Society's transfer in April of 15 dogs of different breeds (including the Norweigan Elk Hound, Tossa, and Korean Jindo) from Montreal to Peterborough for adoption, part of a group of 80 dogs that Humane Society International rescued from a Korean meat farm, where they lived in terrible conditions and were fated to be slaughtered. This photo of a Korean Jindo pup, a breed of hunting dog that originated on Jindo (an island just southwest of the Korean Peninsula) was part of a 2014 story on the breed in The New York Times. (Photo: Jean Chung for The New York Times)

The year in review: our top stories in 2018

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Peterborough Humane Society's rescue of dogs from Korean meat farm most popular story we published in 2018.
The Neil Young mural on the side of Omemee's Coronation Hall, where Young performed his "Home Town" concert on December 1, 2017. (Photo courtesy of City of Kawartha Lakes)

Omemee mural pays tribute to native son Neil Young

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Mural is installed on Coronation Hall, where Young performed his 2017 'Home Town' concert.
Artist collective Atelier Ludmila is presenting "Granny and The Starchild Winter Solstice Celebration" on Friday, December 21, 2018 in downtown Peterborough, featuring a drummer-led lantern parade and five special stages with dancers, musicians, and puppets performing in and around Peterborough Square. Pictured is the 2017 lantern parade, led by the Starchild. (Photo: Andy Carroll)

Celebrate the return of the light on the winter solstice

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'Granny & The Starchild Winter Solstice Celebration' takes place in downtown Peterborough on Friday night.
Sana Virji and Ribat Chowdhury, co-founders of Ribitt, which has recently raised $600,000 in seed round funding for an additional expansion of the company's free mobile rewards app to businesses across Canada. (Photo: Ribitt)

businessNOW – December 17, 2018

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Featuring Ribitt, Flying Colours Corp, Mike's Tattoo, The Food Forest, natural gas for Fenelon Falls, business events in the New Year, and more.
Acclaimed musician Bahamas (Afie Jurvanen) is performing at Showplace Performance Centre in downtown Peterborough on Monday, March 25, 2019. (Publicity photo)

Peterborough Folk Festival bringing Bahamas back to Showplace in March

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Toronto musician's latest critically acclaimed record 'Earthtones' nominated for a Grammy.
Trent University student Sarah Miller received her promotion to shodan (first degree black belt) during a ceremony at the Trent Judo Club on December 10, 2018. She is the first female at the club to obtain a black belt. (Supplied photo)

Trent Judo Club celebrates its first female black belt

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Trent University nursing student Sarah Miller began practising judo when she was three years old.
Seven Peterborough-area entrepreneurs have received $28,000 in grants as part of the sixth intake the Starter Company Plus program, funded by the Government of Ontario and administered by the Peterborough & the Kawarthas Business Advisory Centre. (Photo: Peterborough & The Kawarthas Economic Development)

businessNOW – December 10, 2018

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Featuring Starter Company Plus grant recipients, Kavtek and Monaghan Lumber, Venture13, Bloom Digital Media, upcoming business events, and more.
Serena Ryder's new video for the title track from her new record "Christmas Kisses" supports the Ontario SPCA by featuring more than 20 dogs, with some dressed in festive outfits and some giving kisses to their humans. Several dogs and their owners from the Kawarthas appear in the video. (Screenshot)

Serena Ryder’s new video features several Kawarthas pooches and their owners

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'Christmas Kisses' supports Ontario SPCA while promoting Millbrook musician's new Christmas jazz record,
The lobby of VentureNorth in downtown Peterborough, the location of many of the area's economic development organizations, is decorated for the holidays in advance of a Christmas celebration, one of several business-related holiday celebrations on the afternoon of December 4, 2018. (Photo: VentureNorth)

businessNOW – December 3, 2018

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Featuring VentureNorth, City of Peterborough, Brianna Gosselin, Ella & Duke Salon and Spa, Boardwalk Board Game Lounge, MyDaughter Life Enrichment Service, and more.
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