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New Bloom retirement home breaks ground in Lindsay
The official ground-breaking ceremony was recently held to launch a retirement home in Lindsay. It’s the third retirement home under the Bloom banner in Ontario.
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The latest Community stories from Lindsay and the City of Kawartha Lakes.
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Are we there yet? Highway-based tourism in Kawartha Lakes
The Kirkfield & District Historical Society is embarking on an exciting project, according to a media release, funded by Digital Museums Canada.
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Your thoughts on the vaccine passport
We asked Kawartha Lakes residents how they felt about having to show proof of vaccination to enter some Ontario businesses and services.
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Diversity has created a richer experience for local businesses
There’s a common refrain in areas like this, where residents are mostly white, once the topic of diversity comes up. “We just don’t have much diversity so it’s not a concern here.” That is not the experience of everyone, though.
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Lindsay residents, police, gather at armoury in meeting on neighbourhood crime
A strong turnout at a recent panel discussion on neighbourhood safety gave Lindsay residents a chance to share their growing fear that parts of the town were becoming a hotspot for drug-related crimes.
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Stopping injustice a life goal for young Lindsay woman
All her life she’s considered herself an advocate for those who have been wronged, but last year in June was when Brooklyn Korz’s first involvement on the front lines took place, at Lindsay’s Black Lives Matter rally, where more than 200 people walked, shouted and kneeled — and which she had a part in organizing.
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Has selling orange shirts become commercialized?
As the nation commemorates its first ever National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, at least one local Indigenous man says the holiday is already being tainted by commercialization. Many retailers are selling orange shirts to mark the day but it doesn't mean the shirts were made by Indigenous communities.
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Safer Neighbourhoods movement to be held at Victoria Park Armoury on community safety
Sandy Creighton wasn’t the only one worried about the state of her neighbourhood in the Old Mill district of Lindsay. Once she started talking with her neighbours, she realized they were all having the same issues.
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Bobcaygeon group says new statutory holiday finally acknowledges our racist legacies
The establishment of a National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Sept. 30 is an important step in Canada’s journey to acknowledge its racist past, according to TRC Bobcaygeon. While it was made a statutory holiday federally, the Ontario government has not followed suit, says Sherry Telford, one of the co-keepers of the local group.
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Renaissance man Eric Smeaton
As a young teacher nearly 25 years ago, Eric Smeaton had mistakenly worn two different socks to work. He made up a joke about it on the spot. After he greeted his new class, he showed them his fashion choice and said, “Always remember: You want to be really cool?
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Open house to be held at community garden, all welcome
The United Way for the City of Kawartha Lakes is excited to welcome community members, stakeholders, and donors to their annual 2021-2022 campaign launch. This year, the event is an open house at the Edwin Binney’s Community Garden, providing guests with an opportunity to see how much this project has grown.
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Police chief shares personal feelings of watching Taliban take over Afghanistan
I spent 10 days in Afghanistan in August of 2010. But I wouldn’t dare afford myself any great insight into the true plight of its residents – before or after those tragic images of desperate Afghans trying, in vain, to escape their home and its not-so-new ruthless rulers.
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Wright takes on fundraising role for Community Foundation
Sitting on the patio at his waterfront home in Fenelon Falls, Glen Wright can look across the lake to the site of the family cottage where he spent his youth. Built in the mid-1950s, his mother sold the cottage when he was 20, and despite leaving the area to pursue what turned out to be a very successful career, Four Mile Lake was never far from his memory, so he returned and built on the west shore.
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The great wall: Council votes to take down 'unsafe' wall at Olde Gaol
In a battle of conflicting expert reports, Kawartha Lakes has decided to take the advice of their own staff and voted to approve the demolition of the majority of the walls that currently surround the courtyard of the Olde Gaol Museum at 50 Victoria Avenue North in Lindsay.
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Lindsay Exhibition to run over 10 days this year
The 167th Lindsay Exhibition will proceed as an in-person event from September 17 to 26 -- a 10-day period instead of the usual five. All the favourites are returning, according to a media release, including livestock shows, demolition derby, midway rides and games, a country music concert, The WoofJocks Canine All-stars, DooDoo the Clown, vendors, and fair food.
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Lindsay Legion puts welcome mat out for visitors
Many of us remember a hometown branch of the Royal Canadian Legion somewhere in the shadows of our past. Growing up, I knew it as the hall where people celebrated their family’s milestones with a dance. But, if you still think of the Legion as the members only club of yesterday, perhaps the time has come to take a closer look.
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New style farming in Kawartha Lakes
Small local farms are bringing a fresh approach that complements traditional ways of raising crops and livestock, thanks to savvy use of social media and building direct relationships with their customers. Add an emphasis on the environment, and local producers such as Bobcaygeon’s Three Forks Farm, the Mariposa Woolen Mill and the Kinmount area’s Brandeston Farm are helping change the way agriculture looks in Kawartha Lakes.
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High speed internet for 280,000 more Ontarians: Ministers
Chrystia Freeland, deputy prime minister and minister of finance, along with ministers Maryam Monsef, Kinga Surma, and Dave Smith announced a historic agreement to bring high-speed internet to nearly 280,000 rural Ontario households in hundreds of communities across the province.
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Is Kawartha Lakes becoming Muskokaized?
When Bob and Ann-Marie Carruth bought their Sturgeon Lake building lot in 1997, some friends thought they were insane. Now they see it as the smartest investment move ever. Carruth felt that the Kawartha region was poised to become the next Muskoka, pointing out that while not as scenic to some eyes, “This region was still affordable, there was vacant land available, and it was a lot closer to the Greater Toronto Area,” said Bob.
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Discover new places to stretch your legs in these less well-known spots around Kawartha Lakes
It’s been a year of walking — for health, for a change of scenery, for sanity. But eventually those walking routes may have come to feel, shall we say, overly familiar. Over the past 15 months, many of us have taken time to check out new corners of our Kawartha Lakes backyard — conservation areas, the Victoria County Rail Trail, the Ballyduff Trails and the Trans Canada Trail have all seen a huge increase in users.
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Gamiing Nature Centre offers summer day camps
Gamiing Nature Centre is offering summer day camp in August for ages 4-11. During the five-day nature camp, youth will participate in active and engaging outdoor experiences. Campers will use the newly refurbished Discovery Shack which has been restored thanks to local community support.
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Lindsay woman with rare condition looks forward to starting new chapter of her life
Ever heard of porphyria (por-FEAR-e-uh)? Or maybe a specific kind of it, erythropoietic protoporphyria (EPP)? Me neither. In fact, some doctors have not heard of it and even disbelieved Lindsay resident Megan Nicholas when she told them she felt like she was burning up, despite no outward symptoms.