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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.
While Kawartha Conservation has several high-tech weather monitoring stations across the watershed, including this one installed in Port Perry in 2023, the conservation authority is encouraging area residents to volunteer as citizen scientists in the Climate Change Action Program and help collect data about precipitation and, if they live along the water, water temperature. Kawartha Conservation will provide the necessary training, rain gauges, and water temperature loggers at no cost. (Photo: Kawartha Conservation)

Kawartha Conservation invites community members to become citizen scientists

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Kawartha Lakes residents can take part in Climate Change Action Program to collect precipitation and water temperature data.
Five Counties Children's Centre client Tripp displays a McHappy Day shirt. The organization has been selected as the local children's charity that will benefit from McHappy Day on May 8, 2024 at McDonald's restaurants in Cobourg and Port Hope. (Photo: Five Counties Children's Centre)

McHappy Day in Northumberland to benefit Five Counties Children’s Centre

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Visiting McDonald's restaurants in Cobourg and Port Hope on May 8 will help children with special needs access treatment and supports.
After his death in 2015 at the age of 35, former Peterborough Petes and NHL player Steve Montador was diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a progressive and fatal brain disease associated with repeated traumatic brain injuries including concussions and repeated blows to the head. The H.O.P.E. Steve Montador Bursary was established in his honour to support students transitioning from high school to college or university who are suffering the long-term effects of a sports-related concussion and require a reduced academic course load as result of injury. (Photo: Eliot J. Schechter / Getty Images)

Bursary available for Peterborough students experiencing long-term effects of concussion

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HOPE student bursary in honour of Steve Montador raises awareness, provides funds for post-secondary education.
The recipients of the Ontario Medal for Good Citizenship for 2021 and 2022, including Hastings resident Carrie Hayward (back row, second from left), with citizenship and multiculturalism minister Michael Ford (front row, fourth from left) and lieutenant governor Edith Dumont (front row, fourth from right) at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto on March 25, 2024. (Photo: Office of Michael Ford)

Hastings resident Carrie Hayward receives Ontario Medal for Good Citizenship

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Described as 'a fierce advocate for the marginalized', Hayward's family roots in Campbellford date back to 1906.
In Ontario, about 1,400 people on average are waiting for a life-saving organ. Ryley Mitchell (left, pictured with her mother Joanna in 2022) received a heart transplant in 2006 when she was seven months old after she was diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy. (Photo: Mitchell family)

March 28 virtual talk in Northumberland PACE speakers’ series targets why, what, and how...

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Around 1,400 people on average in Ontario are waiting for a life-saving organ.
On March 25, 2024, Sayers Foods in Apsley will open for business for the first time in almost 40 months since a fire destroyed the original building and the only grocery store in North Kawartha Township. As well as being a food and social destination for the township's 2,300 year-round residents and 12,000 seasonal residents, the store was a driver of the local economy. (Photos: Sayers Foods / Facebook)

Sayers Foods in Apsley is finally reopening almost 40 months after a devastating fire

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Rebuilt family-owned grocery store, the only one in North Kawartha Township, will have a soft opening on March 25.
Northumberland Paramedics Chief Susan Brown (sixth from left) passes the keys of a decommissioned ambulance to Habitat for Humanity Northumberland construction manager Tobias Moeller on March 20, 2024. Also pictured from left to right are Northumberland County councillors Mandy Martin and Lucas Cleveland, deputy warden Olena Hankivsky, Habitat for Humanity Northumberland community and fund development co-ordinator Melissa Morrison, councillor Bob Crate, Habitat for Humanity Northumberland housing partnerships co-ordinator Aleecia Lugossy, warden Brian Ostrander, and councillor John Logel. (Photo: Northumberland county)

‘We are pleased to see this retired ambulance repurposed’: Northumberland Paramedics chief

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Paramedics and Northumberland County donate decommissioned ambulance to Habitat for Humanity Northumberland.
Ontario Agri-Food Venture Centre operations specialist Neil Horner (far right) with Newcomers' Food Entrepreneur Pitch Competition participants, from left to right, Takahiro Takehana and Madoka Takehana of 'Pastry Kukki' in Cobourg, Dawood Abdulsalam and Kabirat Agunbiade of Ottawa (who won the competition with their 'Harvestroot Blend' product), and Sabrina Zaman and Nafis Muntasir of '& Natural' in Bowmanville. Not pictured is Rajesh Kumar of 'Pinni, Healthy Harmony' in Toronto. (Photo: Northumberland County)

Newcomer food entrepreneurs showcase their food products in Northumberland County competition

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Newcomers' Food Entrepreneur Program helps new Canadians interested in turning their small-batch recipe into a scalable recipe for retail sale.
Peterborough Paramedics deputy chief Craig Jones with some of the 1,500 donations of blankets and sleeping bags donated by members of the community for the annual "Blankets for People" initiative. At pop-up locations throughout Peterborough County, residents were encouraged to fill an ambulance with blanket donations. Windsor's Drycleaning Centre ensured all the donations were cleaned prior to distribution for people in need, including those using the Trinity Community Centre in downtown Peterborough. (Photo: Peterborough County)

‘Blankets for People’ initiative receives ‘overwhelming’ response from Peterborough community

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More than 1,500 blankets and sleeping bags collected for those in need, including 700 at pop-up locations in Peterborough County.
Located south of Westwood Park in Cobourg, the 14-acre parcel of land Northumberland County has purchased from the Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board is currently a mix of forest and grassland. The county intended to develop a portion of the land for affordable housing, subject to standard zoning and environmental reviews. (Photo: Google Earth)

Northumberland County land purchase targets ‘pressing need for affordable and attainable housing’

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Planning, zoning and environmental studies next steps in county's acquisition of 14-acre school board property in Cobourg.
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