StoosNews Spotlight: Check Out The Business Beat This Week Featuring Marlin Travel, On Your Journey, Morning Cup Productions and Innovation Cluster

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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…

After 19 years at 550 Lansdowne St., Marlin Travel Peterborough is moving into a new office this Friday.

The new location is at 1789 Stenson Blvd. in the Stenson Plaza, across from the entrance to Fleming College on Brealey Drive. Owner Mary LaRocque and her team of travel advisors, Tara, Jayne, Carrie and Sarah and their new Customer Care team member Gayle, offer a full-service travel agency including all-inclusive holidays, river cruises and group tours.

Tracey Wilson is a registered nurse with 40 years of experience, devoted to caring for palliative and long-term care patients. Tracey brings all of that to her new service called On Your Journey.

Tracey offers end-of-life doula care and services, bereavement/grief support, advanced care planning and end-of-life education and workshops. Tracey’s website is very informative and includes tools like her end-of-life plan checklist. Visit onyourjourney.ca for details and to book a free initial consultation.

Luke Shauf’s company is called Morning Cup Productions.

He brings years of experience in photography, videography and production with an impressive list of credits, from Hockey Night in Canada, The World Series and The Olympics, to co-founding and positioning a rock band. Luke specializes in video for commercials, overviews and podcasts, and photography for branding, headshots, commercial and real estate.

Social innovations are new social practices that aim to meet social needs in a better way than the existing solutions, needs such as working conditions, education, community development or health.

The Innovation Cluster Peterborough and the Kawarthas and Cape Breton University have introduced a new Social Innovation microcredential, focusing on creativity, design thinking, innovation and social business models. The four-week course will be held on Thursdays from 4 p.m. - 6 p.m, starting Sept.r 7, at a cost of $500 per participant.

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