StoosNews Spotlight: Check Out The Business Beat This Week Featuring Jolley Painters, K9 In Motion Wellness & More!

PTBOCanada is delighted to to be running StooNews columns each week here, spotlighting new businesses and startups in Peterborough and the Kawarthas. Here is this week’s edition…

Doug Jolley has over 20 years in the painting business, working in Peterborough, Calgary, Toronto, and now returning to Peterborough to start his own business. Jolley Painters offers interior and exterior painting, complete drywall repair, disaster cleanup, textured ceiling repair and more. Born and raised in Peterborough, Doug provides free estimates and no job is too small. You’ll find Jolley Painters on Facebook.

Doug Jolley

Diane Richard is a Peterborough-based consultant covering everything from project management, strategic planning and product development to food safety systems, continuous improvement plans and more. She recently helped the Toronto-based etee company, well-known for their wax-coated food wrap and bags, to develop a new dish soap product—a concentrate delivered in a wax pouch. The unique plastic-free product was just listed as one of the Top 10 favourite green products on treehugger.com, one of the largest and most credible sustainability blogs in North America. Check it out at shopetee.com.

Diane Richard

etee soap

K9 in Motion Wellness is celebrating its Grand reopening here in Peterborough this Wednesday, January 8th, all day. Owner Karen Kearney provides canine hydrotherapy, massage, exercise programs, and specialty products such as wheel carts, lifting harnesses, all sizes of pet life jackets and more. They also do workshops in basic pet massage, dental care, and managing pain in dogs and cats. Now located at 932 Mervin Avenue in Peterborough, the website is k9inmotionwellness.ca.  

And if you didn’t get one for Christmas, you can still buy yourself a Musicfest Diner’s Super Saver Booklet. The popular annual booklet contains discounts from 46 of Peterborough’s finest local restaurants, cafés and pubs. Just $25, it’s also an important fundraiser for Musicfest, helping them put premier artists on stage all summer long. Pick yours up at the customer service desk at Lansdowne Place, City Hall, Peterborough and the Kawarthas Tourism office on George St. or online at ptbomusicfest.ca.

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