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Kawartha Lakes Food Source volunteer Patty Jones (right) receiving the Barbara Truax Volunteer Award from Barbara Truax, one of the not-for-profit charitable organization's longest-serving volunteers. (Supplied photo)

Kawartha Lakes Food Source recognizes Patty Jones with Barbara Truax Volunteer Award

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Four-year volunteer with charitable organization dedicated more than 140 hours in 2021,
Toronto-based blues and R&B band Bad Luck Woman & Her Misfortunes (lead vocalist and bass player Raha Javanfar, lead guitarist Fraser Melvin, saxophonist Andrew Moljgun, and drummer Jonathan Hyde) perform at Jethro's Bar + Stage in downtown Peterborough on Saturday, May 21. (Publicity photo)

nightlifeNOW – May 19 to 25

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Featuring live music listings at pubs and restaurants in Peterborough and the greater Kawarthas region.
You can expect overnight road closures and lane reductions during road work season in Peterborough. (Photo: City of Peterborough)

Road work season begins in Peterborough

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Surface repaving and micro-surface treatments will be completed on 10 roads, with pavement crack sealing at various locations.
Members of the Peterborough chapter of Pflag, a national charitable organization founded by parents to help themselves and their family members understand and accept their LGBQIA2S children, gathered at the organization's rainbow bench in Millennium Park on May 17, 2022 to recognize International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia and to remember two past local leaders of the organization. (Photo courtesy of Pflag Peterborough)

Peterborough parents’ group recognizes International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia

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Pflag Peterborough's rainbow bench in Millennium Park honours two past local leaders of the organization.
On May 17, 2022, acting Peterborough police chief Tim Farquharson announced in a video statement police would not be laying any charges in the May 10 incident where protestors verbally accosted federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh when he visited the local Ontario NDP candidate in Peterborough. (kawarthaNOW screenshot of YouTube video)

Peterborough police are not laying any charges in connection with Singh incident

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Acting police chief Tim Farquharson says protestors' actions 'fail to rise to the threshold of being criminal in nature'.
One of the picnic tables painted by a local artist as part of the Town of Cobourg's Painted Picnic Table Program in 2021. (Photo: Town of Cobourg / Facebook)

Town of Cobourg seeking local artists to paint picnic tables

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Tables will provide seating for residents and visitors in the downtown and waterfront areas during the summer.
The Federation of Ontario Cottagers' Associations, the Muskoka Lakes Association, and Safe Quiet Lakes launched the "Be #WakeAware" campaign in 2021 to remind boaters to avoid creating potentially damaging wakes. In 2022, marina operators across Ontario will also be spreading the message. (Photo: Be #WakeAware website)

Campaign encourages boaters to ‘be wake aware’ this long weekend and throughout the season

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Large wakes can be dangerous to swimmers and paddlers, damage docks, swamp loon nests, and erode shoreline.
Every lockstation on the Trent-Severn Waterway forms part of a historic navigation system that connects Lake Ontario to Georgian Bay. Parks Canada maintains and operates these national historic sites to make travel possible for boaters and paddlers along 386 kilometres of waterway. (Photo: Trent-Severn Waterway Historic Site / Parks Canada)

Trent-Severn Waterway opens for navigation on May 20

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After two years of delayed openings because of the pandemic, waterway will open in time for Victoria Day weekend.
Since 1965, the Peterborough Theatre Guild at 364 Rogers Street has been staging award-winning ommunity theatre at the Guild Hall at 364 Rogers Street, with larger productions taking place at Showplace Performance Centre. (Photo courtesy of the Peterborough Theatre Guild)

Musical celebration on June 16 and 17 to raise funds for the Peterborough Theatre...

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'The Heart of the Song' will feature Kate Suhr, Linda Kash, Dan Duran, Marsala Lukianchuk, Justin Hiscox, and many more,
Anishinaabe playwright Josh Languedoc of Indigenized Indigenous Theatre Company will perform "Rocko and Nakota: Tales From the Land" during the Nogojiwanong Indigenous Fringe Festival, which runs June 21-26, 2022 at Trent University in Nogojiwanong-Peterborough. His is one of seven Indigenous-led shows that will be performed 34 times during the five days of the festival. (Photo courtesy of Nogojiwanong Indigenous Fringe Festival)

Tickets now on sale for Nogojiwanong Indigenous Fringe Festival at Trent University in June

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The second edition of the world's first Indigenous fringe festival features 34 performances of seven shows from June 22 to 26.
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