StoosNews Spotlight: Check Out The Business Beat This Week Featuring Sign-a-fied, Dave Donaldson Contracting, Innovation Cluster and Carveth's Marina

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…

Sign-a-fied, Peterborough’s newest sign company has opened at 774 Rye St., at the site of the former Signarama.

Peterborough business owner and entrepreneur Steve Daynes acquired Signarama and has retained its core staff of designers, production workers and service experts. Sign-a-fied is local, indigenous-owned and managed and is not part of a franchise. Sign-a-fied is a full-service sign company offering custom digital signage design, from design to fabrication, servicing, and installation. Open Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Dave Donaldson Contracting has added some key new pieces of equipment, including a mini swing hoe and a brush head.

The swing hoe can get into some tight spaces, while the brush head is like a giant weed whacker, designed to clear minor brush on driveways, cottage roads, fire roads, widening laneways for fire and rescue and service vehicles or for reclaiming agricultural lands. For details and a quote, call Dave Donaldson in Warsaw at 705-652-7366.

The Innovation Cluster Peterborough and the Kawarthas recently announced the winners of the Cubs' Lair 2023 entrepreneurial competition.

The $3,000 first-place prize went to Richa Sharma for her ground-breaking business, TastEATools, an edible cutlery manufacturing business. The runner-up was Sustainabite, a business app that collects surplus food from local grocery stores and fast-food chains. Third place went to Titan SmartLock, a highly secure smart lock solution controlled either manually or by your smartphone.

Randy Hauth at Carveth’s Marina introduced the Boaters Assistance Association last year, which works like a roadside assistance program.

If you hit a rock or run out of gas or just need a ride, you can call for help. Hauth has added a new twist this year, a GPS tracking system so that when you need help, help knows exactly where you are. It tracks ignition status, battery alerts and a one-touch SOS signal.

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