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Megan Gallant
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Megan Gallant is an adventure lover who holds an M.A. in Critical and Creative Writing from the University of Gloucestershire. Her favourite place to be is near the water and between the pines in her worn-out hammock, reading true crime, drinking coffee, and cuddling her adorable goldendoodle.
Although the City of Peterborough is not maintaining the ice of the Trent Canal below the Peterborough Lift Lock this winter due to proposed budget cuts, that's not stopping Trevor Hesselink from skating on the canal. Since the canal froze over, he and his wife Victoria Yeh have spent hours using an electric snow blower to clear a rink for public skating just north of Maria Street. (Photo: Victoria Yeh)

Peterborough residents continue to skate on the Trent Canal despite municipal budget cuts

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Trevor Hesselink and Victoria Yeh of East City are among residents who have been clearing part of the ice on the canal for community use.
Comedians Karen Parker, Jennine Profeta, Elvira Kurt, and Diana Frances will be joined by special guest Linda Kash (not pictured) for Girls Nite Out at the Market Hall Performing Arts Centre in downtown Peterborough on January 16, 2025. (Photo courtesy of Girls Nite Out)

Five very funny women come together for Girls Nite Out at Peterborough’s Market Hall...

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Jennine Profeta, Elvira Kurt, Karen Parker, and Diana Frances will perform their popular comedy show featuring special guest Linda Kash.
Franzie Roessl (left) and staff at One Eighty Sports Pub in Peterborough presented a cheque to Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC) Foundation Community Giving and Engagement Manager Jane Lovett (right) on behalf of the One Eighty Heather Roessl & Friends Memorial Golf Tournament in September 2024. This year's annual event raised its largest amount ever, donating $30,500 to the PRHC Foundation's Campaign for PRHC to reimagine healthcare in the region. The PRHC Foundation encourages community members to consider hosting their own third-party event fundraisers to support the regional hospital. (Photo courtesy of PRHC Foundation)

Franzie Roessl continues to honour his mother’s legacy with annual golf tournament supporting the...

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PRHC Foundation invites community members to host their own fundraising events to support the $60 million Campaign for PRHC.
After more than 20 years as a volunteer and employee at Lang Pioneer Village Museum in Keene, museum operations coordinator Hailey Doughty discovered she is a descendent of Daniel Kidd, the blacksmith who worked in and built the blacksmith shop currently at the living history museum. The discovery inspired Doughty to take a blacksmith workshop alongside her father, which has ignited a new passion for the trade among the family's current generation. (Photo courtesy of Hailey Doughty)

Family connection to Lang Pioneer Village inspires Hailey Doughty to find passion in blacksmithing

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After 20 years of involvement at the Keene museum, the museum operations coordinator discovered her four-times great uncle built the village's blacksmith shop.
Robin Adair is a passionate volunteer and treasurer for the Good Neighbours Care Centre in Peterborough. Operating out of 164 Sherbrooke Street for 40 years, the registered charitable organization always been volunteer-run, and provides clients with food, clothing, homeware, and personal hygiene products entirely free of cost. (Photo courtesy of Good Neighbours Care Centre)

The generosity of the Peterborough community has powered Good Neighbours Care Centre since 1984

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Providing food, personal products, clothing, and more, the volunteer-run charitable organization saw increased demand earlier this year due to inflation.
Having raised $1.73 million in its "Raising the Barn" campaign, Globus Theatre in Bobcaygeon is just $160,000 away from being able to purchase the Lakeview Arts Barn that the professional theatre company has been operating out of since 2006. Globus Theatre has also raised a further $220,000 towards its ultimate goal of $2.525 million, so the not-for-profit charitable organization can complete much-needed upgrades to the building, hire hospitality staff, and expand its children's programs. (Photo: Dahlia Katz)

Bobcaygeon’s Globus Theatre is only $160,000 away from purchasing Lakeview Arts Barn

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Funds have already begun to be invested in much-needed repairs that will help ensure the future of the not-for-profit professional theatre company.
Founded by Linda Kash and the late Paul O'Sullivan, the Peterborough Academy of Performing Arts believes that improv teaches valuable life skills for people of all ages and stages, including confidence building, public speaking, collaboration, and learning that it's okay to make mistakes. Early childhood educators Megan Walsh and Melody Hamilton will lead "Tiny Troupe" improv sessions for children ages four to six beginning January 1, 2025. (Stock photo)

Peterborough Academy of Performing Arts improv classes instill life skills at an early age

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Early childhood educators will lead the 'Tiny Troupe' sessions for kids aged 4-6 beginning January 12.
Kinsmen Club of Peterborough president Barry Craft donates $10,000 to Accessible Playgrounds Ontario founder Julie Grant and volunteer Nancy Turner in support of the Ennismore Inclusive Playground Project. With support from several local clubs and organizations as well as individual donors, the project has raised more than $100,000 of the $250,000 needed to fund the building of Jude's Joy, an accessible playground with rubber bottom and ground-level games and activities, at Ennismore Waterfront Park. (Photo courtesy of Ennismore Inclusive Playground Project)

Community raises $100,000 to help build the Jude’s Joy inclusive playground at Ennismore Waterfront...

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Named for accessibility advocate Julie Grant's young son, the community-led initiative will host a breakfast pancake fundraiser in February to support $250,000 goal.
Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC) Foundation President and CEO Lesley Heighway (left) and PRHC Clinical Manager Brendan Sova (right) stand with some of the members of the care team at PRHC's new Reactivation Care Centre. Left to right are physiotherapist Kaitlyn McLeod, occupational therapist Beth Morgan, and pharmacist Alice Yang. The new Centre takes a customized approach to the unique needs of each patient with input from an interdisciplinary care team that includes nurses, occupational therapists, speech language pathologists, physiotherapists, pharmacists, rehabilitation assistants, recreational therapists, social workers, dieticians, and many more professionals. (Photo courtesy of PRHC Foundation)

Peterborough Regional Health Centre reimagines healthcare with new Reactivation Care Centre

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Supported by the PRHC Foundation's $60 million Campaign for PRHC, the new medical unit will prepare patients for success as they return home.
Single mother, queer farmer, and former Peterborough GreenUP employee Heather Ray will be confirmed as the NDP candidate for the 2025 federal election at a nomination meeting on January 10, 2025. Bringing an interdisciplinary approach to her campaign, she was the only party nominee for the riding. (Photo courtesy of Heather Ray)

Heather Ray to be NDP federal candidate for new Peterborough riding

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The sole nominee, Ray will be voted in at the local riding association nomination meeting on January 10.
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