StoosNews Spotlight: Check Out The Business Beat This Week Featuring HBC Lakefield, Camp Kawartha Forest School & 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…

Lakefield is getting a new Home Building Centre! Located in the former Rona Building Centre, behind Foodland in Lakefield, the building has been completely gutted and refurbished. The newest addition to the Kawartha Home Hardware Group of stores, they expect to be open by the end of November, after the finishing touches and stocking the lumber yard and shelves. “Like” them on Facebook here.

New Home Building Centre closer to being completed

Camp Kawartha Forest school is one of the more creative business pivots of the Summer. Completely shuttered by the pandemic, Jacob Rodenburg and staff have created a complete curriculum-linked program taught by professional educators. Located at the main camp on Birchview Road, sessions are running until December and there are still spots available in all their Forest School programs, Kindergarten, Grade 1-3 and Grade 4-6. They have week-long and month-long sessions available. For details, visit campkawartha.ca.

Cindy Lewkawesky-Dowdle has joined the team at Fully Promoted/Signarama. Cindy is a well-known and respected expert in the branded merchandise, promotional products space. Fully Promoted and Signarama are locally owned franchises by Morgan Smith. fullypromoted.ca

The annual Tri-Association Manufacturers Conference goes October 22nd from 8 a.m. – 3 p.m. With “Resilience” as this year’s theme, the virtual event will feature a plant tour, workshops, panel discussions, and more. For details visit thekma.com.

And the Greater Peterborough Chamber of Commerce annual Business Excellence Awards is coming up October 21st. Host Megan Murphy will take you through the completely recorded and produced show with lots of laughs and of course lots of trophies. Local businesses will be honored in over 20 categories, including the Business Citizen of the Year, the Business Women of the Year and the Farm Family of the Year. You can watch the show for free on the Chamber YouTube or Facebook channels, and you can purchase a ticket to the pre-show Zoom party and get a $15 Gift Card from Gerti’s, who would have been catering the event, and a donation goes to Showplace as well. All the details are at peterboroughchamber.ca.

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