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On September 6, 2018, Peterborough-Kawartha MP and Minister of Status of Women was at the new Steelworks Design facility on Fisher Drive in Peterborough to announce $498,000 in federal funding for the Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters (CME) to implement a three-year project aiming at attracting and inspiring more women and youth to pursue a career in manufacturing. (Photo: Office of Minister of Status of Women)

businessNOW – September 10, 2018

Featuring federal funding to attract women to manufacturing, Women's Business Network of Peterborough, Brio Gusto, Pitched, Win This Space, and upcoming regional business events.
Many millions of birds in Canada die each year from collisions with windows. Ewa Bednarczuk, Ecology & Stewardship Specialist with Lower Trent Conservation, applies small white adhesive markers to window glass on a door. The markers are spaced to provide a visual cue to birds that the window is not open space. (Photo courtesy of Lower Trent Conservation)

Help prevent birds from flying into your windows during migratory season

Lower Trent Conservation encourages the public to follow its lead by applying visual cues to windows.
Do you recognize this woman? She is alleged to have robbed a convenience store on William Street North in Lindsay on September 8, 2018. (Photo supplied by Kawartha Lakes Police Service)

Police seek woman who robbed convenience store in Lindsay

Saturday afternoon crime at William Street store is second daylight robbery in two days.
Cars in heavy rain

Significant rainfall expected Monday from remnants of tropical depression Gordon

Up to 60 mm of rain possible just north of Lake Ontario.
The City of Kawartha Lakes Police Service in Lindsay. (Photo: City of Kawartha Lakes)

Kawartha Lakes police ask for public’s help in solving daytime robbery in Lindsay

Police are seeking two suspects involved in robbery of Albert Street South variety store on September 7.
The Art School of Peterborough was founded in 1993 as the Lakefield School of Fine Arts by a group of creative individuals headed by the late artist and teacher Richard Hayman. (Supplied photo)

Art School of Peterborough celebrates its 25th anniversary with special exhibit in September

Not-for-profit organization was founded in Lakefield in 1993 by a group headed by the late Richard Hayman.
Reclusive Newfoundland songwriter Kira Sheppard brings her haunting harp-based songs to The Garnet in downtown Peterborough on on Wednesday, September 12th, where she'll be performing with longtime collaborators Jake Nicoll and Ilia Nicoll along with Peterborough's own Scott Sommerville. (Publicity photo)

nightlifeNOW – September 6 to 12

Live music listings at pubs and clubs in Peterborough and The Kawarthas for the week of Thursday, September 6 to Wednesday, September 12.
Tonya Cunningham of the Peterborough Canoe & Kayak Club won the bronze medal in the Women's K1 D race at the 2018 Canadian Masters Sprint Canoe-Kayak Championships in Sherbrooke, Quebec on September 2, 2018. (Photo courtesy of Peterborough Canoe & Kayak Club)

Peterborough Canoe & Kayak Club brings home two bronze medals from national championships

First-time competitors from newly formed club also had several top-ten finishes.
The mayors of the four municipalities involved in the cancelled Ontario Basic Income Pilot Program have called on the federal government to assume oversight of the program, which includes 4,000 participants in Lindsay, Thunder Bay, Hamilton, Brantford, and Brant County. Hamilton photographer Jessie Golem, whose "Humans of Basic Income" photographic series shows the human side of the Province's decision to cancel the project, will be in Lindsay on September 9 and 10 seeking to photograph and share the stories of Lindsay participants in the program. (Photo: Jessie Golem)

Four Ontario mayors ask federal government to take on basic income pilot project

Ford government cancelled three-year project taking place in Hamilton, Brantford, Kawartha Lakes, and Thunder Bay after only one year.
Sue Simmons, owner of Equinox Family Consulting Ltd., created her signature program "Lemons to Lemonade Better Behaviour Bootcamp" in 2017. The online group coaching program for moms of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) gives ASD moms the tools to manage difficult behaviour and to feel competent as parents. (Supplied graphic)

Meet Sue Simmons, creator of Lemons to Lemonade

Owner of Equinox Family Consulting Ltd. launches online bootcamp to 'give Autism Moms back their power'.

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