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When you purchase $50 in gift cards from downtown businesses such as creative hub Watson & Lou at supportdowntownptbo.ca, the Peterborough Downtown Business Improvement Area (DBIA) will donate $25 to the Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC) Foundation in support of the hospital's COVID-19 response effort. (Photo courtesy of Peterborough DBIA)

You can now support Peterborough Regional Health Centre when you buy gift cards from...

Peterborough DBIA will donate $25 for every $50 in gift cards to Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC) Foundation.
Kawartha Conservation logo

Kawartha Conservation reduces staff by 60 per cent due to COVID-19

Reduced work force will continue to provide flood forecasting and precipitation monitoring, source water protection, and planning and permitting functions.
Peterborough Arts Alive - EC3

Peterborough-area professional artists have until Monday night to apply for micro subsistence grant

Electric City Culture Council providing $250 in short-term financial relief for artists who have little or no income due to COVID-19.
Daily COVID-19 update for Peterborough and the greater Kawarthas region - April 26, 2020

Daily COVID-19 update for Peterborough and the greater Kawarthas region – April 26, 2020

Cases and deaths as reported by regional health units: Peterborough Public Health; Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit; and Hastings Prince Edward Public Health.
King George Public School at 220 Hunter Street East in Peterborough's East City. (Photo: Bruce Head / kawarthaNOW.com)

Ontario schools to remain closed until at least May 31

Education minister Stephen Lecce says students will be able to complete their school year despite closure.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford responds to a question during his daily update regarding COVID-19 at Queen's Park in Toronto on April 25, 2020. (Photo: Tijana Martin / The Canadian Press)

Ontario’s frontline workers to receive additional $4 per hour in pandemic pay

More than 350,000 health care, social services, and corrections workers to receive temporary wage increase for 16 weeks.
Daily COVID-19 update for Peterborough and the greater Kawarthas region - April 25, 2020

Daily COVID-19 update for Peterborough and the greater Kawarthas region – April 25, 2020

Cases and deaths as reported by regional health units: Peterborough Public Health; Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit; and Hastings Prince Edward Public Health.
Copper Lake in Kawartha Highlands Provincial Park. On March 18, 2020, the Ontario government announced it has closed all provincial parks until April 30th. On April 25, 2020, the government extended the closure to May 31st. (Public domain)

Ontario’s provincial parks to remain closed until May 31

Reservations will be automatically cancelled and reservation holders will receive a full refund with no penalty.
Riel Acres Farm, a small family-operated market garden in Young's Point producing fresh produce, chickens, eggs and lamb, is one of the members of the new Grow Food Peterborough Facebook group launched by Local Food Peterborough. (Photo: Riel Acres Farm / Facebook)

Local Food Peterborough launches new Facebook group to support local food growers

Members can share questions, ideas, and information and find inspiration, with some local farmers volunteering as mentors.
The largest community garden in the Kawarthas is Edwin Binney's Community Garden in Lindsay. The garden is located on 30,000 square feet of Crayola Canada’s previously unused land that the United Way and Fleming College staff have developed into a fully operational community garden. In the garden's first year of operation, 11 different agencies received fresh produce from the garden. (Photo courtesy of United Way City of Kawartha Lakes)

Ontario to allow community gardens to operate during COVID-19 pandemic

Gardens recognized as essential source of fresh food, especially for those facing food insecurity.

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