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Naloxone is a medication used to block the effects of opioids, especially in overdose, and is available as a nasal spray (pictured) or as an injection. The kits to be provided to downtown Peterborough businesses will be the nasal spray versions.

Downtown Peterborough businesses to be equipped with naloxone kits to respond to opioid crisis

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Staff will be trained on how to identify and respond to an opioid poisoning or overdose.
The City of Kawartha Lakes Police Service in Lindsay. (Photo: City of Kawartha Lakes)

Pickup truck rammed, passenger assaulted during road rage incident in Lindsay

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Incident involving black Honda Civic occurred on Friday at intersection of Highway 36 and Weldon Road.
Kawartha Land Trust (KLT) has received $215,000 in funding from the Canadian government's Canada Nature Fund to support the continued protection of the Cation Wildlife Preserve near Coboconk. Peterborough-Kawartha MP Maryam Monsef announced the funding during the grand opening of the preserve on June 22, 2019. Pictured (left to right): Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock MP Jamie Schmale, KLT development manager Tara King, land donor Sharon Cation, KLT executive director John Kintare, land donor Dave Cation, and MP Monsef. (Photo: Office of Maryam Monsef)

Kawartha Land Trust receives $215,000 in federal funding for newly opened Cation Wildlife Preserve

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Funds to support ongoing protection of donated property come from Canada Nature Fund.
At a ceremony at Kawartha Lakes City Hall in Lindsay on June 21, 2019, Colleen Brandse, Kevin Bell, Shane Troyan, Heather Lively, Patricia Bell, Jack Faulkner, Lynne Johnston, and Mary Dowzer-Verbruggen were recognized for their efforts to help an elderly man who collapsed in Cambray in May. (PHoto courtesy of City of Kawartha Lakes)

Eight Kawartha Lakes residents honoured as Good Samaritans

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Group of strangers performed CPR on elderly man and assisted paramedics.
Published every Friday during swimming season, The Beach Report™ lists the the results of water quality testing at beaches in the Kawarthas. In Peterborough, the water at Roger's Cove Park beach and Beavermead Park beach (pictured) is tested every business day. (Photo: Bruce Head / kawarthaNOW.com)

The Beach Report for June 21 to 27, 2019

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Water quality testing results for beaches in Peterborough, Kawartha Lakes, Haliburton, and Northumberland
Montreal alt-folk singer-songwriter Roch Albert performs at the Black Horse in downtown Peterborough on Wednesday, June 26th. (Photo: Roch Albert / Facebook)

nightlifeNOW – June 20 to 26

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Live music listings at pubs and clubs in Peterborough and The Kawarthas for the week of Thursday, June 20 to Wednesday, June 26.
A coneptural rendering of the outdoor terrace at The Canadian Canoe Museum's new 85,000-square-foot facility to be built beside the Peterborough Lift Lock on the Trent-Severn Waterway. The terrace will be named in honour of Toronto-based philanthropists George and Kathy Dembroski, who have donated $500,000 to the museum's capital campaign for the new facility. (Supplied graphic)

George and Kathy Dembroski donate $500,000 to support The Canadian Canoe Museum’s new facility

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New museum's outdoor terrace to be named in recognition of gift from Toronto-based philanthropists.
"Stranger Things 3" premieres on Netflix Canada on July 4th. In the third season of the popular series, Eleven and the Hawkins crew are out of school for the summer, on the cusp of adulthood, and are figuring out how to grow up without growing apart when their town (and the new mall) is threatened by enemies old and new. (Photo: Netflix)

What’s new on Netflix Canada in July 2019

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Highlights include original series including Stranger Things 3 and Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, and lots of new and old theatrical films.
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Police investigate homicide in village of Haliburton

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Haliburton man charged with second-degree murder.
The 11th annual YWCA Walk a Mile in Her Shoes fundraiser, held on May 24, 2019, has raised $103,028 for the YWCA Crossroads Shelter, supporting 1,593 "Safe Nights" for women and children fleeing abuse. Pictured from left to right: Jocelyn Hill of Swish, Tiffany Christie of Heads up for Inclusion, Laura Leahy of Swish, YWCA executive director Lynn Zimmer, Scott Rocha of Swish, Drew Merrett of Merrett Home Hardware Building Centre, Dan Vilar of GM Financial, Monika Carmichael of Trent Valley Honda, Kelli Richard of Kawartha Credit Union, Chris Russell of Bryston, and top individual fundraiser Tom Mortlock of top fundraising team Mortlock Construction. (Photo courtesy of YWCA Peterborough Haliburton)

YWCA Walk a Mile in Her Shoes raises $103,028 for Crossroads Shelter

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Funds will support 1,593 'Safe Nights' for women and children fleeing abuse.
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