StoosNews Spotlight: Check Out The Business Beat This Week Featuring Nixon Electric Company, Permanent Beauty, Community Futures Peterborough and Homeward Bound

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

Jesse Nixon recently started his own business.

Nixon Electric Company provides a wide range of electrical services to residential and commercial customers, including installation, repair and maintenance. Fully licensed and insured, with extensive knowledge of local building codes and regulations, Jesse offers everything from lighting, electrical panel upgrades, EV Charger installation and generator installation to a full suite of commercial services.

Permanent Beauty is a unique clinic at 354 Charlotte St.

It specializes in permanent cosmetics, injectables, lashes, fine line tattoos, micro pigmentation and lots more. Owner Kalayna Cabral-Iammancini is particularly proud of her daughter Kiki, who has just introduced her own line of crystal-infused, lightly scented, healing candles. Called Gemini Moon, each candle contains at least 10 crystals and is lightly scented. Check out this budding entrepreneur’s product line at 354 Charlotte St. in Peterborough or online.

Devon Girard, the new Community Futures Peterborough executive director and Board Chair Charlina Westbye, recently unveiled a new brand identity for the organization.

The new logo pays tribute to the federal government, which provides the funding for CFP’s loans, while reflecting a modernized look and their redefined strategy for supporting local entrepreneurs. Community Futures Peterborough supports small businesses in the City and County of Peterborough with flexible financing. It has invested more than $38 million in 1,000 small businesses since 1985, creating or maintaining more than 4,000 jobs in the City and the County.

Homeward Bound is a program run through Peterborough Housing that works with single mothers.

The program provides, housing and education as the women get trained or retrained for the workforce. It’s been very successful in graduating six women so far, who are all working in their field, including plumbing, paralegal, instrumentation, ECE and educational assistant.

The Spring cohort is currently looking for placements and hopefully apprenticeships in carpentry and plumbing. If your business is looking for motivated talent or if you know of a single Mom who is in transition, reach out to Maisie Watson at Peterborough Housing or visit ptbohousingcorp.ca.

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