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The Kawartha Lakes Police Service is investigating after a 74-year-old female from Lindsay became a victim to a gift card scam.

Slogans such as “Where the lowest price is the law,” “Dollar Daze,” and “Shopping anywhere else is pointless,” bring back waves of nostalgia for shoppers of the discount department store Zellers.

Liz Pead was on her way to the 2019 Kawartha Yarn and Fibre Festival when she found herself lost on Oak Street in Fenelon Falls — and now she lives there.

Whether a school, a municipal facility, a place of worship or a local business, a building’s appearance is likely to garner comment.

When she nominated Sergeant Brendan Johnston as her police hero, Erin Broderick wrote an emotional nomination. Her husband, Constable Mike Broderick, died by suicide on Nov. 5 last year.

Parks Canada has announced that due to ongoing mechanical issues, the Kirkfield Lift Lock will remain closed to all boater and land-based visitors for the foreseeable future.

The Director of the Special Investigations Unit (SIU), Joseph Martino, has reasonable grounds to believe that three Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officers committed criminal offences in relation to the death of 18-month-old Jameson Shapiro in November 2020.