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On August 24, 2023, an Amber Alert was issued for three-month-old Jazmine Gill-Bissonnette who was abducted by her father, 23-year-old Jacob Bissonnette, in Roseneath about 52 kilometres east of Peterborough. A couple of hours after the Amber Alert was issued, police located the infant safe in Roseneath and took her father into custody. (Police-supplied photos)

Amber Alert cancelled for baby girl abducted by her father in Rosneath

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Three-month-old Jazmine Gill-Bissonnette located safe, police take father into custody.
On August 23, 2023, Ross Memorial Hospital Foundation CEO Erin Coons (middle) accepted a $20,000 cheque from longtime members of the Ops Ladies Auxiliary (left to right) Marion Brumwell, Joan Magahay, Noreen Brasier, and Anne Walker at Ross Memorial Hospital in Lindsay. The volunteer group is disbanding now that the Ops Community Centre and Arena has been demolished. (Photo courtesy of Ross Memorial Hospital Foundation)

Disbanding Ops Ladies Auxiliary donates $20,000 to Ross Memorial Hospital Foundation in Lindsay

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Volunteer group was formed in 1974 with the construction of the now-demolished Ops Community Centre and Arena.
Last held from 2016 to 2019, Parks Canada's Lock & Paddle event returns to the Peterborough Lift Lock on August 26, 2023. Paddle alongside hundreds of canoes and kayaks along the Trent-Severn Waterway towards the world's tallest hydraulic lift lock, where the two tubs will be packed full as everyone is sent 65 feet (20 metres) in the air. (Photo: Parks Canada)

Lift your spirits (and your canoes and kayaks) at the Peterborough Lift Lock on...

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Parks Canada's annual 'Lock & Paddle' event returns to the world's tallest hydraulic lift lock for the first time since 2019.
The Netflix Australian romantic comedy "Love is in the Air," filmed in Queensland's picturesque Whitsundays islands, stars Delta Goodrem as a fiercely independent seaplane pilot fighting to keep her family business afloat who starts falling for the man sent by corporate to ground her operation forever. It premieres on Netflix on Friday, September 15th. (Photo: Netflix)

What’s new on Netflix Canada in September 2023

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Highlights include Love is in the Air, Castlevania: Nocturne, Spy Kids: Armageddon, the final seasons of Sex Education and Top Boy, and more.
In June 2023, the Community Foundation of Kawartha Lakes provided $69,800 in funding to Kawartha Lakes Food Source, one of 32 community organizations in the City of Kawartha Lakes, the city and county of Peterborough, and Haliburton County to receive one-time grants through the Government of Canada's Community Services Recovery Fund. (Photo courtesy of Community Foundation of Kawartha Lakes)

32 community organizations in the Kawarthas receive $1.2 million in federal funding

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One-time funds under Community Services Recovery Fund distributed by Community Foundation of Greater Peterborough, United Way Peterborough & District, and Community Foundation of Kawartha Lakes.
There will be plenty of fire-cooked corn smothered in butter for the entire family to enjoy during the Corn Roast event at Lang Pioneer Village Museum in Keene on August 27, 2023. Find out the many ways 19th-century settlers used corn, watch a variety of harvest-related and historic demonstrations, enter a corn-on-the-cob eating contest, and more. (Photo courtesy of Lang Pioneer Village Museum)

Celebrate harvest season with a Corn Roast at Lang Pioneer Village Museum in Keene...

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Family-friendly event on August 27 features harvest demonstrations, historic demonstrations, live music, and of course plenty of corn.
The 2023 CNE Ambassador of the Fairs is Leah Lai of the Lindsay Agricultural Society (left), pictured with 'Miss CNE 1972' Debby Carter-Wood from Richmond Hill, the very first winner of the Ambassador program. (Photo courtesy of Canadian National Exhibition)

Leah Lai of the Lindsay Agricultural Society crowned 2023 CNE Ambassador of the Fairs

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Year-long Ambassador of the Fairs role will take Lai across Ontario as a representative of the CNE and all agricultural fairs in the province.
Royal Canadian Falconry at the 2022 Kawartha Fall Festival at Ken Reid Conservation area with Laima, a female American kestrel. The Haliburton-based family-owned small business will return to the second annual festival on September 23, 2023 for a birds of prey demonstration. (Photo: Royal Canadian Falconry / Facebook)

Kawartha Fall Festival returns to Ken Reid Conservation Area near Lindsay on September 23

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Kawartha Conservation's free family event features a birds of prey demonstration, petting and reptile zoo, live entertainment, vendors market, food trucks, and more.
The beach at Sandy Lake in Trent Lakes. (Photo: Michael Hurcomb)

The Beach Report for August 18 to 24, 2023

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Water quality testing results for beaches in Peterborough, Kawartha Lakes, Haliburton, Northumberland, and Hastings and Prince Edward.
Surveillance video of a suspect in an armed robbery of a store on Colborne Street in Fenelon Falls at around 4:30 p.m. on August 17, 2023. (Police-supplied photo)

Police arrest suspect in armed robbery in Fenelon Falls on Thursday

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Raymond Reid is accused of entering Colborne Street store armed with a knife and stealing cigarettes and a victim's cell phone.
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