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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.
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.
Susan Dunkley, vice chair of the board of Peterborough and Kawarthas Chamber of Commerce, speaks at the launch of the chamber's first annual Luminary Awards, held at Bennett's Furniture and Mattresses in Peterborough on September 18, 2024. Organized by the Chamber with presenting sponsor Sullivan Law Ptbo and presenting media sponsor kawarthaNOW, the awards recognize the contributions and achievements of women in the local business community, whether they are business owners or employees. A new "speed nominate" option makes it easier to nominate a woman for one of the five awards by the nomination deadline of January 17, 2025. (Photo: Heather Doughty Photography)

It’s now even easier to nominate a deserving woman in business for the inaugural...

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With nominations closing January 17, Peterborough and Kawarthas Chamber of Commerce is offering a new 'speed nominate' feature.
A few of the more than 50 films screening during the 2025 annual ReFrame Film Festival of social and environmental documentary films, which runs from January 23 to February 2 with in-person screenings from January 23 to 26 in downtown Peterborough and virtual screenings from January 27 to February 2. Pictured are posters for "Agent of Happiness", "Razing Liberty Square", "The Monarch Ultra", "My Dad's Tapes", "The Wild Path Home", "Logging Algonquin", "House with a Voice", and "The Day Iceland Stood Still". (kawarthaNOW collage)

ReFrame Film Festival announces more than 50 movies to be screened during 2025 hybrid...

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Featuring the best in social and environmental documentary films, the 21st annual festival will be held virtually and in-person in downtown Peterborough from January 23 to February 2.
GreenUP is a not-for-profit environmental organization that works to promote sustainability, green living, and environmental education in Peterborough and the Kawarthas. Pictured is Parys Carr facilitating a group of children during an Earth Adventures Summer Camp at GreenUP's Ecology Park. The charity, which is facing unprecedented financial challenges that are putting some of its programs at risk, is seeking increased community donations. (Photo courtesy of GreenUP)

GreenUP’s vital climate programs are at risk at a time when they are needed...

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Lack of funding for environmental education is threatening the non-profit charity's work to support local action against the climate crisis.
Community Futures Peterborough's Business Advisory Centre Manager Rose Terry (middle with the blue jacket) with the fall 2024 graduating class of Starter Company Plus, a provincially funded entrepreneurial training program administered for the first time by Community Futures Peterborough. Not only was this the program's largest cohort ever, representing 21 small businesses in the City and County of Peterborough, but each participant who completed the program received a micro-grant of up to $5,000 to grow their business. (Photo courtesy of Community Futures Peterborough)

Starter Company Plus program run by Community Futures Peterborough concludes with its largest-ever cohort

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The program has wrapped up with 21 businesses in the City and County of Peterborough building connections and each receiving micro-grants up to $5,000.
Jodi Forestell became a holistic nutritionist after struggling with feeling like herself in her mid-forties and finding healing through holistic practices. Now through Jodi-Lee Nutrition & Wellness, she helps clients who are struggling with mental health, weight loss, hormonal imbalances, low energy, and inflammation feel like themselves again by focusing on nutrition as the foundation to the four pillars of health. Forestell is giving clients the chance to think about their New Year's resolutions by offering $100 off her Metabolic Balance Program until December 31, 2024. (Photo courtesy of Jodi-Lee Nutrition & Wellness)

Know Your Locals: Start feeling like yourself again in 2025 with Jodi-Lee Nutrition &...

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Holistic nutritionist Jodi Forestell is offering $100 off her Metabolic Balance Program when booked by the end of the year.
Nick Beamish, pictured with his wife and two sons, is encouraging donations to the Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC) Foundation's $60-million Campaign for PRHC to reimagine healthcare in region, including an electrophysiology lab so the hospital can assess and diagnose problems in the heart's electrical system. After experiencing a cardiac emergency in 2018, the Selwyn resident had to spend his Christmas at Kingston General Hospital away from home because PRHC did not have the facilities to perform the procedure. (Photo courtesy of PRHC Foundation)

Community support of the Campaign for PRHC will mean patients like Nick Beamish can...

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In 2018, the Peterborough high school teacher had to spend Christmas in an ICU hours from home after experiencing a cardiac crisis.
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