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"Proxy pupil: Knowing the world but blind to the sphere" by Laura Thompson, one of the many art exhibits on display at the Erring at King George multidisciplinary arts festival in Peterborough in May 2022. (Photo: Bruce Head / kawarthaNOW)

Pilot program offers grants for professional artists in Peterborough area

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Apply to Electric City Culture Council by July 7 for grants of up to $1,500 or $3,500.
Not all plastics are synthetic polymers derived from petrolium oil. Cellulose is a naturally occurring polymer found in the walls of plant cells. Some cellulose-based packaging has been developed, like this option used by local soap-maker, Sherrie La Masurier of Simply Natural Canada. This packaging may look like single-use plastic made from fossil fuels and destined for the landfill, but this cellulose-based wrap will biodegrade in a standard backyard composter or municipal composting facility. (Photo: Kristen Larocque)

Our romance with everything plastic doesn’t have to be tragic

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Peterborough GreenUP explores the good, the bad, and the undeniably useful world of plastics.
Lock 22 - Nassau Mills is one of seven locks along the Trent-Severn Waterway Parks Canada is closing on June 17, 2022 until further notice due to high water levels and flows. (Photo: Parks Canada / Twitter)

Parks Canada closing seven locks along Trent-Severn Waterway due to high water

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Closures take effect June 17, with controlled breach of dam construction site at Lock 19 - Scotts Mills over weekend.
Members of Dragons Abreast, the first breast cancer survivor dragon boat team in Toronto and one of the first in the world, with the five-foot model of a dragon boat they donated to The Canadian Canoe Museum in Peterborough on June 15, 2022. The model is a scale replica of the dragon boat built in 2008 by the Avalon Dragons, Newfoundland and Labrador's first breast cancer survivor dragon boat team. (Photo: The Canadian Canoe Museum / Facebook)

Dragons Abreast donates model dragon boat to Peterborough’s Canadian Canoe Museum

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Toronto's first breast cancer survivor dragon boat team embarking on 125km fundraising paddle along the Trent-Severn Waterway.
Ryan and Sam Weber of The Weber Brothers, from the Hootenanny on Hunter Street in Peterborough in August 2015. (Photo: Linda McIlwain / kawarthaNOW)

Ryan and Sam Weber and Kate Suhr among Peterborough Pathway of Fame inductees

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Induction ceremony for 25th anniversary year will take place September 10 at Showplace Performance Centre.
On June 13, 2022, Kawartha Lakes police sergeant Deb Hagarty announced police divers had recovered the body of 11-year-old Draven Graham from the Scugog River in Lindsay, 24 hours after the autistic boy wnet missing from his nearby home. Some parents of autistic children believe Ontario's Amber Alert system should be expanded to include missing vulnerable children as well as abducted children. (kawarthaNOW screenshot)

Petitions call for changes to Amber Alert system after tragic death of Lindsay’s Draven...

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Parents of autistic children want alerts issued for missing vulnerable children after 11-year-old's body found in Scugog River.
The New Canadians Centre's Canadian Multiculturalism Festival from June 20 to 27, 2022, will tell the story of our multicultural community through performance, storytelling, film, and food. Pictured is south Asian classical dance by Ukti - Centre for Movement & Arts at the 2019 Multicultural Canada Day Festival. (Photo courtesy of New Canadians Centre)

New Canadians Centre launches first-ever Canadian Multiculturalism Festival in Peterborough

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Week-long festival featuring food, film, performance, and storytelling begins on June 20 and culminates on Canadian Multiculturalism Day on June 27.
As part of the '40 is the new 50' campaign in the City of Kawartha Lakes, which is reducing the speed limit in community safety zones from 50km/h to 40km/h, residents in affected rural communities can request a lawn sign to reinforce the campaign. (Photo: City of Kawartha Lakes)

’40 is the new 50′ campaign rolling out to five more rural communities in...

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Speed limit in community safety zones in Seagrave, Sonya, Little Britain, Oakwood, and Woodville will be reduced to 40km/h this summer.
Lang Pioneer Village Museum's Sawyer-Massey traction steam engine leads the tractor parade during the annual Father's Day Smoke & Steam Show. Early steam engines were hauled by draft animals from job to job during the harvest to provide power to large machines such as shingle mills and threshing machines through a belt-and-pulley system. (Photo: Larry Keely)

Father’s Day Smoke & Steam Show returns to Lang Pioneer Village Museum in Keene...

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Family-friendly event features tractor games, vintage farm trucks, power equipment displays, historical demonstrations, and more.
11-year-old Draven Graham of Lindsay. (Police-supplied photo)

Police find body of missing 11-year-old autistic boy in Scugog River

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Draven Graham went missing from his Queen Street home in Lindsay at 3 p.m. on Sunday
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