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What’s open and closed on Thanksgiving Monday 2022

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Holiday hours for 294 selected businesses, organizations, and services in Peterborough, Lindsay, Cobourg, Port Hope, and across the greater Kawarthas region.
For its fall 2022 musical, St. James Players presents Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" from November 11 to 19 at Showplace Performance Centre in downtown Peterborough.

Peterborough’s St. James Players returns to the stage with Disney musical ‘Beauty and the...

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Celebrating 50 years, community theatre group will perform beloved musical from November 11 to 19 at Showplace Performance Centre.
Kawartha Lakes indie pop-rockers Heaps (Warren Frank, Tanner Paré, and Fred Kwon), who released their EP "Little Blue" in July, perform at the Gordon Best in downtown Peterborough on Saturday, October 8 along with Boyhood and vanCamp. (Photo: Mike Neal)

nightlifeNOW – October 6 to 12

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Featuring live music listings at pubs and restaurants in Peterborough and the greater Kawarthas region.
The Canadian Canoe Museum executive director Carolyn Hyslop and Silver Bean Cafe owner Dan Brandsma celebrate their new partnership by donning each other's t-shirts and raising a cup of coffee to their future together. The Silver Bean Café on the Lake will operate seven days a week at the new Canadian Canoe Museum at 2077 Ashburnham Drive on the shores of Little Lake when the new museum opens in summer 2023. (Photo courtesy of The Canadian Canoe Museum)

Silver Bean Café will operate the café at Peterborough’s new Canadian Canoe Museum

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Opening in summer 2023, 'Silver Bean Café on the Lake' will serve breakfast, light lunches, treats, and drinks including alcohol.
With increasing transmission of COVID-19 in the Peterborough region, Peterborough Public Health is encouraging residents to take precautions this Thanksgiving weekend. Try to gather outdoors or in areas that are well ventilated. People who are at higher risk for complications related to COVID-19 should wear a mask for all interactions with those outside of their household, avoid indoor social gatherings, and avoid attendance at high-risk settings. (Stock photo)

Peterborough Public Health cautions residents as region now has highest COVID-19 case rate in...

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Local COVID-19 risk index moves to 'very high' with increasing community transmission, outbreaks, and hospitalizations.
Starting October 21, downtown Peterborough businesses will be spookifying their window displays with the theme of fairy tales and folklore leading up to the Peterborough Downtown Business Improvement Area (DBIA)'s inaugural 'Halloween in the Booooro' event on October 29, 2022. Along with family-friendly activites including trick or treating, late-night shopping, and a scavenger hunt, there will be a free zombie escape game for adults in Peterborough Square. (Photo: Peterborough DBIA)

‘Spooktacular’ Halloween event coming to downtown Peterborough October 29

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Inaugural 'Halloween in the Booooro' includes kid-friendly activities and a terrifying adults-only zombie escape game.
On October 4, 2022, volunteers from the Survivors Abreast Dragon Boat Team and the Peterborough's Dragon Boat Festival organizing committee presented the Peterborough Regional Health Centre Foundation with a cheque for $202,268.41. Pictured among the volunteers are PRHC Foundation president and CEO Lesley Heighway and festival platinum sponsor Kawartha Credit Union's president and CEO Norah McCarthy (back row, left) and festival chair and Survivors Abreast member Michelle Thornton and top fundraiser Rhonda Barnet (kneeling, left). (Photo courtesy of Peterborough's Dragon Boat Festival)

Dragon Boat Festival raises $202,268.41 for cancer care at Peterborough Regional Health Centre

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Since 2001, annual event has raised more than $3.9 million for cancer screening, diagnosis, and treatment.
Located at 156 Cedar Bank Road in Peterborough, Escape Maze was founded in 2014 after the Preddy family discovered the fun of escape rooms. (Photo courtesy of Escape Maze Peterborough)

Escape Maze, Market Hall, Showplace, Globus Theatre among recipients of $100,000 in federal funding

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Regional Tourism Organization 8 announces 37 tourism-related businesses and organizations receiving $2.8 million in federal tourism relief funding,
Volunteers sorting through donated winter outerwear during the United Way Peterborough & District's 2021 Coats for Kids (and Adults too!) collection. Now known as Coats for our Community, the annual collection takes place October 15 and 16, 2022 in Peterborough and Lakefield. (Photo: United Way Peterborough & District / Facebook)

United Way Peterborough seeking donations of winter outerwear for local families in need

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2022 Coats for our Community collection takes place October 15 and 16 in Peterborough and Lakefield.
An Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) police car. (Photo: OPP)

Hastings Highlands pilot killed in crash of amateur-built aircraft

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Police located 51-year-old Jason Reynolds after he was reported overdue on Saturday night.
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