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Holiday Shopping Passport grand prize draw winner Noah Sloan was presented with his grand prize of a $1,500 Boro gift card by Iceman Video Games store manager Holly Butler on January 14, 2023. Sloan completed his winning passport after purchasing a new game console at the downtown Peterborough business. (Photo courtesy of Peterborough DBIA)

Noah Sloan wins downtown Peterborough’s $1,500 Holiday Shopping Passport grand prize draw

Annual program to encourage local shopping generated over $2.3 million in spending at downtown Peterborough businesses
Port Hope pop surrealist artist Oli Goldsmith, known for his album art and video work for the rock band Our Lady Peace, is showing 23 mixed media artworks in his solo exhibition "Threading Perennial" on display until March 23, 2023 at the Art Gallery of Northumberland in Cobourg. (Photos courtesy of Art Gallery of Northumberland)

Oli Goldsmith’s ‘pop surrealism’ on display at Art Gallery of Northumberland in Cobourg

'Threading Perennial' features 23 mixed media artworks by Port Hope artist known for his work with rock band Our Lady Peace.
Freezing rain on car

ENDED – Freezing raining warning in effect Tuesday for Kawartha Lakes, Peterborough, Northumberland, Haliburton

A few millimetres of ice accretion is possible before changing to light rain in afternoon.
Details of works by Peterborough-area artists Casandra Lee, John Climenhage, Brooklin Holbrough, and Jeffrey Macklin (left to right, top and bottom) selected for the first stage of the City of Peterborough's Indoor-Outdoor public art project. The artworks will be installed this winter in four city facilities. (Photos supplied by City of Peterborough)

Works of four local artists selected for City of Peterborough’s Indoor-Outdoor public art project

First stage of project will see artworks by Casandra Lee, John Climenhage, Brooklin Holbrough, and Jeffrey Macklin installed this winter inside four municipal facilities.
The Stop-Gap Drop-in Centre at Trinity United Church, located at 360 Reid Street in Peterborough, will operate overnight from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. until the end of April. (Photo: Jeannine Taylor / kawarthaNOW)

Peterborough’s new overnight drop-in centre for unhoused people opens

Supported by a coalition of community agencies, Stop-Gap Drop-in Centre at Trinity United Church will run from January 16 until April 30.
Each year, Kawartha Conservation offers forest therapy walks at its conservation areas for participants to experience the therapeutic benefits of nature. For 2023, the walks will be sponsored by Lindsay law firm Wards Lawyers, including three walks at Ken Reid Conservation Area on Bell Let's Talk Day on January 25. (Photo: Kawartha Conservation)

Wards Lawyers in Lindsay sponsoring Kawartha Conservation’s forest therapy program for 2023

Mental health nature walks include three free sessions at Ken Reid Conservation Area on Bell Let's Talk Day on January 25.
Peterborough Police Service headquarters on Water Street in Peterborough. (Photo: Pat Trudeau)

Peterborough police investigating after dog ingests illicit substance at elementary school property

Now recovering, dog became ill on Saturday after eating something on grounds of Monsignor O’Donoghue Catholic School.
Eliza Braden-Taylor, Chief Keith Knott, and Anne Taylor of Curve Lake First Nation at a new Jackson Creek Trail trailhead sign during an event on January 14, 2023 to celebrate the the completion of Ontonabee Conservation's Jackson Creek Trail revitalization project. Curve Lake First Nation Cultural Centre helped develop the educational signs that were part of the project, which also included installing new trailhead signs and benches, fixing erosion along the trail, installing culverts, regrading slopes, enhancing bridges and railings, and resurfacing the length of the trail. (Photo courtesy of Otonabee Conservation)

Celebration marks reopening of Peterborough’s revitalized Jackson Creek Trail

Otonabee Conservation's completed revitalization project features new trailhead and educational signage as well as trail repairs and enhancements.
Presented by Wild Rock Outfitters and Kawartha Nordic Ski Club, the 8-Hour Ski Relay for Mental Health takes place on January 22, 2023 at Kawartha Nordic in North Kawartha Township. A group of Peterborough-area skiers will be cross-country skiing to raise funds for the Canadian Mental Health Association Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge's Garden Homes Project, which aims to provide affordable small homes for vulnerable people in the Peterborough area at risk of homelessness. (Photo: Wild Rock Outfitters / Facebook)

Peterborough-area cross-country skiers raising funds for supportive housing and mental health

Wild Rock Outfitters and Kawartha Nordic Ski Club eight-hour ski relay on January 22 will support CMHA HKRP's Garden Homes Project.
Women's Business Network of Peterborough president Diane Wolf (left) and program directors Tracy Minnema and Sandra Wilkins present a cheque for $14,816.97 to YWCA Peterborough Haliburton's lead philanthropc director Ria Nicholson (right) on January 11, 2023. The proceeds were raised during the Women's Business Network of Peterborough's December 2002 holiday gala and auction. (Photo: Grace Terfa / WBN)

Women’s Business Network of Peterborough donates $14,816.97 to YWCA Crossroads Shelter

Funds raised at networking organization's annual holiday gala will support 229 'safe nights' for women and children fleeing violence and abuse.

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