StoosNews Spotlight: Check Out The Business Beat This Week Featuring Peterborough Power Sports, Kawartha TV and Stereo, PKA SoftTouch and Camp Kawartha
/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…
The new Peterborough Power Sports recently opened on Lakefield Road. Owners Mike Wood and Kevin Reuter are local guys who saw a need for a power sports shop with high-quality performance parts, as well as a good selection of the more commonly used parts.
They service all small engine power sport machines and can deal with rims and tires as well as recreational sales such as dirt bikes, atv’s and electric scooters. The address is 2710 Lakefield Rd., just north of Giant Tiger. Call 705-741-6262, peterboroughpowersports.com or find them on social media.
Congratulations to Kawartha TV and Stereo on their 50th anniversary! Starting in 1971 as a sewing machine store with a couple of stereos on the shelf, Glenn Stuart quickly realized that the audio/video side of the business was more popular and he and his brother Scott, who joined the company in 1986, have never looked back.
A local family business, the store has been at the corner of Park and Lansdowne since 1985 and takes pride in their 20 full-time staff who have been with them for an average of 20 years!
Dick Crawford’s Lakefield-based company PKA SoftTouch has been working on the development of their patented Micro-needle. They raised nearly half a million dollars last year which funded their clinical trials at the University of Guelph.
They have just launched a second crowdfunding campaign for the human trials phase. Dick describes the Micro-needle as a painless vaccine delivery system, providing a painless, accurate process with no vaccine waste. Visit pkasofttouch.com or call Dick Crawford at 705-652-6100.
Camp Kawartha continues to build its new Health Centre, which will be an innovative "zero building" demonstrating the very best in sustainable design, with a zero-carbon footprint, zero fossil fuel use, zero waste output, zero toxins and net-zero utility costs.
A 100th-anniversary project, the Camp was recently surprised by a creative new fundraiser from Heather Watson, Creative Director of acorn30 and Douro Ward Councillor. Acorn30 is delivering white oak tree seedlings as gifts to its clients and planting a seedling for each client on the grounds at Camp Kawartha. For each planting, a donation is made by acorn30 to the Health Centre fundraising campaign. campkawartha.ca/health-centre
