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The Peterborough Police Service Cram-A-Cruiser event collects food for Kawartha Food Share (photo: Facebook)

Cram-A-Cruiser collects over 20,000 pounds of food for Kawartha Food Share

Annual Peterborough Police Service event surpasses last year's total
Interested entrepreneurs have until January 13, 2017 to enter the "Win This Space" competition, which includes a free one-year lease of a downtown Peterborough storefront beginning April 1, 2017 (photo: Peterborough DBIA)

Win This Space entrepreneurial competition launched in Peterborough

$35,000 prize package includes free one-year lease of downtown Peterborough storefront
Small Business Week

Small Business Week events in Peterborough and the Kawarthas

Events include business breakfasts, workshops, seminars, conferences, and awards.
Lindsay's Connie Blackwell holds an owl, temporarily stunned after flying into their front-porch window, in the palm of her hand (photo: Richard Connolly)

Holding an owl in the palm of her hand

Lindsay couple finds stunned owl on front porch and captures the moment before the owl flies away.
Joe Roberts, who is pushing a shopping cart across Canada for youth homelessness, arriving in eastern Ontario earlier in October. He is speaking in Peterborough and Lindsay on October 16, with a big celebration in Toronto in October 23. (Photo: The Push for Change)

Joe Robert’s epic shopping cart journey across Canada for youth homelessness

Homeless addict turned CEO speaks at YES Shelter for Youth & Families soup lunch on October 16.
Alt-country singer-songwriter Justin Rutledge is playing at The Red Dog in downtown Peterborough on Saturday, October 15 in support of his new record East (publicity photo)

nightlifeNOW – October 13 to 19

Live music listings at pubs and clubs in Peterborough and The Kawarthas for the week of Thursday, October 13 to Wednesday, October 19.
A scene from the original production of Wounded Soldiers at Winslow Farm in Millbrook in August 2014. 4th Line Theatre is taking the production on the road this November with 15 performances in Peterborough, Ottawa, and Belleville. (Photo: Wayne Eardley)

4th Line Theatre is taking Wounded Soldiers on the road in November

Performances of acclaimed 2014 production take place in Peterborough, Ottawa, and Belleville.
Vote for The Canadian Canoe Museum's project at the Aviva Community Fund and help the museum to make its award-winning programming more accessible to schools, community groups, outreach events, and the general public (photo: The Canadian Canoe Museum)

Help The Canadian Canoe Museum win funding to buy a vehicle and trailer

Cast votes for the museum until October 28 in the Aviva Community Fund competition.
Since Thanksgiving Monday is a statutory holiday in Ontario, all government offices, banks, and liquor and beer stores are closed. Many grocery stores and other businesses are also closed. Most tourist attractions and recreational services remain open.

What’s open & closed on Thanksgiving Monday

Holiday hours for hundreds of businesses, organizations, and services in more than 30 communities across The Kawarthas.
The new television series "The Eight" is based on Ian Rogers' acclaimed horror story "The House on Ashley Avenue"

Peterborough writer’s haunted house story being developed for American television

NBC's The Eight is based on Ian Rogers' The House on Ashley Avenue

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