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Articles by Natalie Hamilton, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

Natalie Hamilton, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
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Based in Northumberland County, Natalie Hamilton is an award-winning journalist with more than 20 years of experience. Her reporting is funded by the Government of Canada through its Local Journalism Initiative.
The Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit is marking Nutrition Month in March by encouraging residents to join in by being mindful of what they put on their plates and by practising other good habits around mealtimes. With Dietitian's Day on March 20, the health unit is also emphasizing the role of registered dietitians as a reliable source for nutrition information and healthy eating guidance. (Stock photo)

‘Healthy eating goes beyond making good food choices, it’s about embracing mindful habits’: dietitian

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Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge Health Unit highlights healthy eating during Nutrition Month in March.
Five Counties Children's Centre, including staff members Tricia and Mandy, are encouraging families to take part in a survey to share their experiences at the Peterborough children's treatment centre and offer input about how services can be improved in future. (Photo: Five Counties Children's Centre)

Five Counties Children’s Centre seeks input from families on its services

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Organization launches online survey with goal of improving services and programs for kids in Peterborough, Haliburton, Northumberland, Kawartha Lakes.
Furniture flipping involves upcycling used/old furniture to give it a new life, with some people flipping furniture to create unique home decor items while saving money and others doing it to increase the furniture's value for resale. While furniture flipping is not new, its popularity greatly increased during the pandemic. (Photos: Clinton Avery Tharp via New York Times)

Habitat for Humanity Peterborough & Kawartha Region announces ‘The Big Flip’ furniture restoration contest

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Taking place during Earth Month in April, contest encourages residents to reimagine and revive used furniture to keep it out of landfills.
Peterborough's Nogojiwanong Indigenous Fringe Festival (NIFF) has announced the artists chosen by lottery for the 2024 festival which runs from June 21 to 23 at Trent University, including its first family show featuring John-Paul Chalykoff performing original songs in Anishinaabemowin, along with interludes between songs with his puppet Baabii sharing some Anishinaabemowin. A member of Michipicoten First Nation, Chalykoff is an assistant professor in Anishinaabe studies at Algoma University in Sault Ste. Marie. (Photo courtesy of NIFF)

Nogojiwanong Indigenous Fringe Festival announces artists for 2024 festival in Peterborough

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June festival at Trent University poses unique opportunity for Indigenous artists to share their work, says general manager.
Dr. Ashley O'Toole, a Royal College-trained dermatologist from Peterborough, is operating a new outpatient dermatology clinic at Campbellford Memorial Hospital. (Supplied photo)

Campbellford hospital welcomes Peterborough dermatologist to run outpatient clinic

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Dr. Ashley O'Toole will offer dermatological care, including for suspected skin cancers, for patients referred to Campbellford Memorial Hospital clinic.
Peterborough 4-H member Ella Doris, Farms at Work manager Emma Macdonald, and farmer and auctioneer Jason McIntosh anticipate an upcoming online auction to benefit the farm communities of Peterborough and the Kawarthas. (Photo courtesy of Farms at Work)

First-ever agricultural benefit auction supports farm communities of Peterborough and the Kawarthas

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Residents can buy products directly from local farmers when bidding opens March 11,
Call2Recycle president Joe Zenobio (third from left) with Peterborough city councillors Gary Baldwin, Joy Lachica, and Kevin Duguay on October 17, 2023 at the launch of an awareness campaign to encourage Peterborough residents to recycle their used batteries. As part of the awareness campaign and coinciding with changes to the city's waste management program, residents received boxes they can use to collect their used batteries for recycling. (Photo: Call2Recyle)

Kawartha Lakes and City of Peterborough receive nod for battery recycling efforts

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Call2Recycle Canada recognizes the municipalities for collectively preventing over 12,000 kilograms of batteries from going to landfills.
The measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine was developed by American microbiologist Maurice Hilleman in 1971. Before the introduction of the first measles vaccine in 1963 and subsequent widespread vaccination, major epidemics occurred approximately every two to three years and caused an estimated 2.6 million deaths each year. An estimated 128,000 people (mostly children under the age of five) still died from measles in 2021, despite the availability of a safe and cost-effective vaccine. (Photo: Eric Risberg / The Associated Press)

‘We are urging residents to avoid bringing home measles as their souvenir’: Peterborough medical...

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Both area health units issue 'urgent call' for childhood vaccinations as March break approaches.
With a 12 per cent decline in land actively farmed in Ontario over the past 15 years, Peterborough-based non-profit organization Farms at Work has launched a free online resource designed to improve access to agricultural land by helping farmers and landowners across the province find each other. (Photo: Dave Cavanagh)

New online tool aims to ‘keep farmland in farming’ by linking Ontario farmers and...

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'Protecting agricultural land and our capacity to feed ourselves is paramount': Farms at Work board chair.
A view of the August 21, 2017, total solar eclipse from Madras, Oregon. (Photo: NASA / Gopalswamy)

Thousands expected to converge in Northumberland County to experience rare total solar eclipse on...

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With Brighton, Colborne, Grafton, Cobourg, and Port Hope along path of totality, county and partners share safety messages.
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