StoosNews Spotlight: Check Out The Business Beat This Week Featuring Creative Kwe, Uride & More!
/PTBOCanada is delighted to to be running StooNews columns each week here, spotlighting new businesses and startups in Peterborough and the Kawarthas. Here is this week’s edition…
Uride is Canada’s fasted growing ride-hailing company, and they are coming to Peterborough. Originating in Thunder Bay, the company has been working with the City for a number of months and they expect to be able to launch by the Christmas season. Meanwhile they are recruiting Peterborough drivers. There is full information on the requirements for drivers, as well as a downloadable app for riders, at uridetech.com.
Ashley Lamothe has been busy developing new programming for her business Creative Kwe. Ashley specializes in workshops, creativity coaching and online courses that all focus on unleashing that creative spark in all of us. Ashley has a free webinar on Creative Workplace Wellness Programs tomorrow (November 17) from 12 – 1, a design your own personal roadmap workshop on November 25th, and she has just launched a new side-business making handcrafted resin keychains called ResiNation. Check it all out at creativekwe.ca.
Cahill’s, as a local retailer of Nobis outerwear, is participating in their annual “No Cold Shoulder” campaign. Teaming up with Cameron House, Cahill’s is encouraging everyone to drop off their gently-used, winter coats at their store on Hunter Street in Peterborough. Anyone who drops off a coat in November will get a ballot for a chance to win a $250 in-store credit. Donated coats will be cleaned by Grainger’s Cleaners and donated to Cameron House in Peterborough. Cahills.ca for details, or just stop in.
And congratulations to Raycroft Financial Planning on their new location. After 10 years at the corner of Charlotte and Park, the firm has moved to 890 High Street, in the former Kawartha Credit Union Building. Started by Bill Raycroft, the company is now run by Bill and Noreen’s son and daughter Dan and Lynn, specializing in professional financial planning, for tax, retirement, estate and investments, as well as insurance, education funding and more. Raycroftfinancial.com
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