StoosNews Spotlight: Check Out The Business Beat Featuring Comfort Keepers, Community Futures Peterborough, covAID & 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…

If your business requires the screening of customers coming through the doors, Comfort Keepers is now offering the service. Owner Alyssa Rowe has trained caregivers who can be positioned at the front door to screen clients or employees at point of entry. Screeners are fully protected and armed with a list of questions and a digital thermometer. Alyssa has also adjusted her staffing support services for retirement and long-term care homes to fit current protocols. For details, visit comfortkeepers.ca/Peterborough.

Community Futures Peterborough just announced the Regional Relief and Recovery Fund which provides interest-free loans to help support fixed operating costs of local small businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Main street businesses such as retail shops, restaurants, corner stores are the target, with loans up to $40,000. For details, visit communityfuturespeterborough.ca.

Congratulations to everyone involved the recent CovAID Fundraising event. If you missed it, you can still watch it here. The virtual event featured lots of local musicians. Funds raised will flow through the COVID-19 Community Response Fund—established by the Community Foundation of Greater Peterborough and United Way Peterborough & District—to charities providing mental health supports in our community. For details or to donate, click here.

The Peterborough Chamber of Commerce launched the call for nominations for their annual Business Excellence Awards last week. If you’ve been longing for the good old days, say anything before March, the Excellence awards are a good way to think back to all of the accomplishments over the last year, in your business, or a business that you admire. There are 20 award categories, details are at excellencepeterborough.ca.

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