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The Easter long weekend is a perfect time to spend with your family. Many businesses and services are closed on Good Friday and Easter Sunday, and government offices and schools are also closed on Easter Monday.

What’s open & closed on the 2017 Easter weekend

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Hours for 241 selected businesses, organizations, and services in more than 30 communities across The Kawarthas.
Cancer survivor Tessa Smith (right), shown here meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last October as the Terry Fox Foundation Ambassador for 2016, will be the guest speaker at the Kawartha Chamber Volunteer Appreciation Breakfast on April 19 (photo: Justin Trudeau / Twitter)

What’s new from the Kawartha Chamber of Commerce & Tourism – April 12, 2017

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Featuring Volunteer Appreciation Breakfast, Easter Bunny, Selwyn Skateboard Park, Farewell to LDIS, and more.
The March 31st recall of Wholesome Farms brand Sundae Cup products has now been expanded to include additional flavours (photo courtesy Canadian Food Inspection Agency)

Peterborough’s Central Smith Creamery expands recall of sundae cups due to Listeria risk

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Dessert products being recalled are primarily used in food service institutions.
The annual Nutty Chocolatier Easter Egg Hunt takes place at noon on Easter Sunday (photo: The Nutty Chocolatier / Facebook)

Annual Easter Egg Hunt returns to downtown Peterborough on April 16

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Easter Sunday event for children hosted by The Nutty Chocolatier.
The police officers who received the Outstanding Police Officer Service Award with the students from Fleming College's Police Foundations program who presented the awards (photo courtesy of Fleming College)

Fleming College honours outstanding police officers in the Kawarthas

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Annual award recognizes seven officers from police services in Peterborough, Kawartha Lakes, Port Hope, Cobourg, and Haliburton.
"Grown Ups Read Things They Wrote as Kids", where brave adults get on stage before a live audience and read their childhood or teenage writing, is coming to Peterborough's Market Hall on September 17, 2017 (photo: Grown Ups Read Things They Wrote as Kids)

Time to dig out that childhood diary

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Grown Ups Read Things They Wrote as Kids comes to Peterborough's Market Hall this fall.
Many of the 750 students receiving school suspension order may have already received all required vaccinations, but their records with the health unit are are out of date

Area students without updated vaccination records may face suspension

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Families who receive notices should contact health unit immediately.
Police car lights. (Stock photo)

Ajax man arrested after police pursuit in downtown Peterborough

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Driver found hiding in King Street parking garage after abandoning car
After an extensive search over the past week, police have found Majorie Lucas's body washed up on the shores of Lake Ontario

Missing woman found dead in Grafton

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70-year-old Marjorie Lucas had been reported missing since March 25
Drawn Away by Peterborough's Holly Bennett is a young adult novel about a modern-day teenager named Jack who is transported into the world of Hans Christian Andersen where he meets the Match Girl

kawarthaREADS: Drawn Away

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An excerpt from Peterborough writer Holly Bennett's seventh young adult novel.
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