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Kingston-based folk singer-songwriter and guitarist Jon McLurg (Turpin's Trail, Crooked Wood, The Goodnight Irenes) performs at Arthur's Pub in Cobourg on Friday night and at Jethro's Bar + Stage in Peterborough on Saturday night. (Website photo)

nightlifeNOW – November 3 to 9

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Featuring live music listings at pubs and restaurants in Peterborough and the greater Kawarthas region.
The El (P)'s "Creamy 3-Cheese Chorizo BeerMac" and Capra Toro's "Baked Birra Fromagio" tied as the winners of the 2022 Peterborough Mac + Cheese Festival, held during the month of October and featuring 20 mac and cheese dishes at participating downtown restaurants. (Photos courtesy of Peterborough Downtown Business Improvement Area)

The El (P) and Capra Toro share the Peterborough Mac + Cheese Festival crown

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Online votes give the two downtown restaurants the win for their classic mac and cheese dishes, with Champs and the Black Horse coming in second and third.
CUPE national president Mark Hancock speaking at a rally in downtown Toronto on November 1, 2022 organized by the Ontario Federation of Labour in response to the Ontario governemnt's "Keeping Students in Schools Act" which would impose a four-year contract on CUPE education workers and ban a strike. (Photo: CUPE Ontario / Facebook)

CUPE education workers to picket at local government MPP constituency offices Friday

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Pickets will be held at offices of Dave Smith in Peterborough, Laurie Scott in Lindsay, David Piccini in Port Hope, and Ric Bresee in Madoc.
Porch Pirates for Good, a volunteer organization in Peterborough, collected more than 25,000 pounds of food during its spring food drive for Kawartha Food Share. The organization is hosting a fall food drive to restock the dwindling shelves at Kawartha Food Share on November 12, 2022. (Photo courtesy of Porch Pirates for Good)

Peterborough’s ‘Porch Pirates for Good’ hosting fall food drive on November 12

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Food banks across the country including Kawartha Food Share are straining under historically high demand due to inflation and inadequate social supports .
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All schools in the Kawarthas will be closed on Friday if CUPE walkout happens

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Public and separate school boards both tell families schools cannot 'safely operate' without education workers.
Artist Brad Brackenridge (right) is one of 20 Peterborough-area artists who received a grant under the Electric City Culture Council and City of Peterborough's Grants for Individual Artists program. Brackenridge will use his grant to develop The Lear Project, first presented with dance-theatre artist Dreda Blow (left) at the Erring at King George multi-arts festival in May 2022, for presentation at the Market Hall Performing Arts Centre. (Photo: Bruce Head / kawarthaNOW)

Electric City Culture Council grant program provides $47,720 to support Peterborough-area artists

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20 artists receive grants to create new plays, paintings, films, albums, books, performances, and more.
The nine-hole disc golf course at Ken Reid Conservation Area near Lindsay is being designed by Huntsville-based Fluent Disc Sport, who say conservation areas and provincial parks can be ideal homes for disc golf courses since, unlike traditional golf, smooth ground surfaces and manicured fairways are not needed. (Photo: Fluent Disc Sport)

Nine-hole disc golf course coming to Ken Reid Conservation Area near Lindsay

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Professionally designed course will have minimal environmental impact and each hole will highlight a local bird species.
A late fall sunrise with frosted branches in the foreground. (Stock photo)

‘Fall back’ when daylight saving time ends this weekend

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Remember to change the batteries in your smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors on Sunday,
Peterborough Police Service Chief Designate Stuart Betts comes from the London Police Service and has more than two decades of policing experience. (Photo supplied by Peterborough Police Services Board)

Stuart Betts will be the next chief of the Peterborough Police Service

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Currently a deputy chief with the London Police Service, Betts will take over from Peterborough's acting chief Tim Farquharson on January 9
Presented by GPHSF, Your Family Health Team Foundation in partnership with Imprinted Apparel Store, the GPHSF Charity Bonspiel on January 21, 2023 at the Peterborough Curling Club offers participants a guaranteed two games along with the opportunity to win prizes. Funds raised during the event will support health equity and access to healthcare for residents in the city and county of Peterborough City as well as Hiawatha and Curve Lake First Nations. (Stock photo)

Charity curling event supports health equity and access to healthcare in Peterborough region

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Registration open for GPHSF Charity Bonspiel on January 21, presented in partnership with Imprinted Apparel Store.
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