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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.
The winter edition of the Hike Haliburton Festival returns to the Haliburton Highlands for the weekend of February 1 and 2, 2025. Registration is now open for free guided hikes led by passionate local guides, while local outfitters will have paid excursions available to be booked throughout the weekend. (Photo courtesy of Hike Haliburton)

Connect to nature during the winter edition of the 2025 Hike Haliburton Festival

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Annual festival of guided hikes and paid excursions on February 1 and 2 offers the chance to slow down and take in the beauty of winter in the Haliburton Highlands.
Alex Bilyan (middle), chief sales officer and co-founder of WorkScore.ai, was the winner of $10,000 at the Innovation Cluster's LevelUP Pitch Competition at Market Hall Performing Arts Centre in downtown Peterborough on November 6, 2024. Applications are open until January 15, 2025, for the third cohort of the 12-week business accelerator program that helps Ontario entrepreneurs with a minimal viable product take their business to the next level. (Photo: Innovation Cluster)

Applications for Innovation Cluster Peterborough and the Kawarthas LevelUP program open until January 15

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Tech entrepreneurs could win $10,000 in pitch competition at the end of free 12-week business accelerator program.
ReFrame Film Festival executive director Kait Dueck on stage at the opening of the 20th annual documentary film festival in 2024. The 21st festival will present more than 50 documentary films focused on social and environmental justice in downtown Nogojiwanong/Peterborough from January 23 to 26, 2025 and virtually from January 27 to February 2, 2025. (Photo: Esther Vincent, courtesy of ReFrame Film Festival)

Behind the scenes of the ReFrame Film Festival with executive director Kait Dueck and...

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The 21st annual social and environmental justice documentary film festival runs in downtown Peterborough and virtually from January 23 to February 2.
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.
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