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Thanksgiving Monday 2018 holiday hours

What’s open and closed on Thanksgiving Monday 2018

Holiday hours for 266 selected businesses, organizations, and services in Peterborough and across the Kawarthas.
The Weber Brothers (Ryan and Sam Weber) are back from a tour of eastern Canada and will perform with their band (Ryan Browne, Emily Burgess, and Marcus Browne) at the Arlington Pub in Maynooth on Saturday, October 6. (Photo: Randall Cook Photography & Music / randallcook.ca)

nightlifeNOW – October 4 to 10

Live music listings at pubs and clubs in Peterborough and The Kawarthas for the week of Thursday, October 4 to Wednesday, October 10.
Peterborough native Kathryn Durst is supplying the illustrations for Sir Paul McCartney's new children's book "Hey Grandude!", which will be published worldwide in September 2019. (Photo: Penguin Random House)

Peterborough’s Kathryn Durst illustrating Paul McCartney’s new children’s book

Now living in Toronto, the Peterborough native is supplying illustrations for 'Hey Grandude!' to be published September 2019.
The annual McLean Pumpkinfest is opening this Thanksgiving weekend in Buckhorn, and will be taking place every weekend (Saturday and Sunday) until Sunday, October 28th. (Photo: McLean Berry Farm)

What’s new from the Kawartha Chamber of Commerce & Tourism – October 3, 2018

Featuring McLean Pumpkinfest, Rural Business Summit, Timberline Custom Homes, Buckhorn Harvest Craft Show, Ladies Night Out In Lakefield, and more.
The "Little Station House", Port Hope's first railway station, was relocated this past summer to Lent Lane. Not-for-profit arts organization Critical Mass is leasing the building from Architectural Conservancy Ontario Port Hope and transforming it into a creative hub for the community. (Photo courtesy of Critical Mass)

The transformation of Port Hope’s first railway station into a creative hub begins

Critical Mass invites VIA Rail volunteers to start painting interior of Little Station House.
Peter Adams (left) in the late '80s when he was MPP for Peterborough, with community activist John Taylor (the late father of kawarthaNOW publisher Jeannine Taylor), former Peterborough Mayor Jack Doris, and the late community activist Bruce Knapp, during a fundraiser for McKellar Hamilton Park, now known as the John Taylor Memorial Park. (Photo: Jeannine Taylor)

Former Peterborough politician Peter Adams dead at 82

Founder of Trent University's geography department served as both MPP and MP until retiring in 2006.
Addison "Addi" Beauclerc requires brain surgery to remove a tumour causing daily seizures. A benefit concert and silent auction at the Red Dog in downtown Peterborough on September 23, 2018 will raise funds to help the Beauclerc with related expenses and to cover the cost of unpaid time off work. (Photo courtesy of the Beauclerc family)

Benefit concert in Peterborough on Sunday for five-year-old boy undergoing brain surgery

Addison Beauclerc has a brain tumour causing daily seizures that medication can't control.
Toronto-based roots singer-songwriter and guitar virtuoso Noah Zacharin performs at The Arlington in Maynooth on Saturday, September 29th. (Publicity photo)

nightlifeNOW – September 27 to October 3

Live music listings at pubs and clubs in Peterborough and The Kawarthas for the week of Thursday, September 27 to Wednesday, October 3.
Trinity College School in Port Hope has been named Canada's greenest school, along with a high school in Alberta, for its efforts at sustainability. One example is the school's "Farm Field Forest" initiative that enables students to build a greenhouse and shed and work on a half-acre farm that harvests vegetables for the school's dining room and the local community health centre. (Photo courtesy of Canada Green Building Council)

Trinity College School in Port Hope is Canada’s greenest school

School's efforts at sustainability including physical building changes and upgrades and a comprehensive curriculum.
October is fright month on Netflix Canada with a slew of scary movies including the Netflix original remake of "The Haunting of Hill House" based on the 1959 novel by Shirley Jackson. (Photo courtesy of Netflix)

What’s new on Netflix Canada in October 2018

Making a Murderer Part 2, Marvel's Daredevil Season 3, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, a slew of scary movies, and more.

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