StoosNews Spotlight: Check Out The Business Beat This Week Featuring SPARK, Innovation Cluster, Tom's Heating and Cooling, CMHA and The Marketing Guy

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 annual SPARK Photo Festival is on for the entire month of April. Spark is a celebration of photography and the artists, dreamers, innovators, storytellers, professionals and enthusiasts behind the camera lens.

There are numerous photo exhibits, workshops, lectures and many other photographic events and activities in locations throughout Peterborough, Northumberland and the Kawarthas.

From a celebration of the first 20 years of the Peterborough Dragon Boat Festival, to 17 individual exhibits, to the showcase exhibit and much more. Get the full list and a festival map at sparkphotofestival.org.

Congratulations to the Innovation Cluster Peterborough and the Kawarthas on receiving two prestigious awards: Technology Innovations & Development Incubator of the Year for Canada and the Award for Excellence in Collaborative International Innovations 2022.

The awards were presented by Global Health & Pharma Magazine at their seventh annual Biotechnology Awards. The digital magazine, distributed quarterly to 260,000 wellness professionals and healthcare-related suppliers worldwide, recognizes the Innovation Cluster’s unwavering dedication to its clients, its ideal location for growing cleantech start-ups and as one of few rural business incubators in Canada designated to offer the Start-Up VISA Program by the Canadian Federal Government. Innovationcluster.ca

Ryan Waudby of Tom’s Heating and Cooling is excited to be the presenting sponsor for this year’s Ride Don’t Hide event from the Canadian Mental Health Association Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge.

Ryan took over the heating and cooling business from his dad Tom, and recognizes the tremendous need for mental health support in the community.

The funds from this years’ Ride Don’t Hide event will support a new Mobile Mental Health and Addictions Clinic, which will travel across the district to provide mental health and addiction care. Details at cmhahkpr.ca or tomsheatingandcooling.ca

Entrepreneur Phillip Jolicoeur, locally known as The Marketing Guy, is presenting Funny @ the Farm, a comedy night featuring three marquee stand-up comedians - Eric Johnson, Brad Bryans and Jason Allen.

The event will be held on Sat. April 30 from 7 p.m. – 10 p.m. at Farmhill Weddings and Events, 2709 Dillon Road in Keene. For details visit pjthemarketingguy on Facebook or find the event on Eventbrite.

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