Amusé Coffee Co. Launches Second Location The Edison In VentureNorth Building

After pursuing her entrepreneurship dreams opening an authentic Paris themed café Amusé Coffee Co. in 2015 on George St., Lindsay Brock is celebrating her third anniversary in operation on August 23rd by opening a permanent second location called The Edison (Powered by Amusé).

The espresso and pastry bar is housed the lobby of the VentureNorth building at 270 George St. North. In a sense, it's like coming home for Lindsay, as The Edison is located in the building where various economic development establishments reside that helped her originally start her business.

Entrepreneur Lindsay Brock at The Edison, located in VentureNorth Building in downtown Peterborough

Through entering the FastStart program—a partnership with the Innovation Cluster, Trent University and Fleming College that provides youth startup business support and funding through Community Futures Peterborough—Brock was able to learn the skills needed to open her own café.

Brock has hosted a pop-up cafe in the VentureNorth lobby since March 2018 as a business test running two days per week, providing fair trade organic whole bean coffee and baked goods. With the overwhelming success in sales, Brock says there was no question about opening a permanent location there.

“The past five months serving at the VentureNorth building has been a great experience for Amusé’s business,” says Brock. “Being able to cover two locations downtown has allowed us to provide our specialty products on either sides of the downtown core, and with the new permanent location, we will now be providing more meal options.”

The grand opening of The Edison is Thursday, August 23rd from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and its hours will be from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Thursday starting the following week.

You can also visit Lindsay's Amusé location at 641 George St. N.—we spotlighted it in a post in August 2015—pictured below...

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Dr. Doug’s New Centre Peterborough Max Living Chiropractic Centre To Have Celebration September 19th

Dr. Doug’s Family Chiropractic Centre has been a household name in Peterborough for 18 years.

Owner Dr. Doug Lukinuk has made massive contributions to this community through his support of numerous local charities and events, and was instrumental in raising $250,000 that helped build the basketball park at Bethune and Hunter Streets.

Dr. Doug pictured with a client

On September 19th, Dr. Doug's centre will offically reopen its doors under its new name Peterborough Max Living Chiropractic Centre with a community celebration from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. It will include Mayor Bennett and other dignitaries doing a ribbon-cutting at 2 p.m.

They are opening with an extensive roster of new and expanded services. These new services transform the clinic into a multi-disciplinary centre to serve the entire community event better.

New services include wellness service, workshops and fitness classes. Dr. Doug’s vision to make Peterborough the “healthiest city in Canada” is now shared with and executed by many other professional practitioners and staff.

Dr. Doug and his team invite the community to join in the celebrations on September 19th. The clinic will be open for tours, demos and refreshments, and the first 50 people to register here receive a free gift.

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Win This Space 2018 Grand Prize Winner Ritual Apothecary Opens On Charlotte Street

Nadine McCallen (pictured below), this year’s winner of Win This Space entrepreneurial competition, has opened the doors to her new shop Ritual Apothecary on Charlotte Street in downtown Peterborough. As part of the grand prize, McCallen has received one year of free rent in a downtown storefront.

Photo courtesy DBIA

McCallen describes the store this way: “It will be the home of The Willow’s Bark studio, which creates wildcrafted skincare and herbal remedies from locally foraged plants, as well as other like-minded companies producing all-natural, small-batch, sustainable beauty products, herbal remedies, and artisan goods with care and attention to protecting our natural habitat."

Visit Ritual Apothecary at 196 Charlotte Street.

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Roundup Of New Stores In Peterborough Includes Win This Space Winner

Lots of new retail stores are popping up in Peterborough lately. Here's a quick rundown of what's opening or opening soon...

HEALTHY PLANET

Healthy Planet offers vitamins, supplements, beauty, diet, nutrition and natural foods. The store will open shortly in the plaza at 871 Chemong Road.

COPPER BRANCH

Copper Branch is slated to open this month (June) at 1040 Lansdowne Street West where the old Captain's Seafood & Ribs restaurant used to be. They offer a wide menu of plant based food (including gluten-free options).

ELECTRIC JUICE FACTORY

The Electric Juice Factory at 181 Charlotte Street (and has a second location in Port Hope) sells premium raw, organic, cold-pressed juices and healthy, delicious, organic plant-based convenience foods.

AFRICA MISSION GROWTH MARKET

The Africa Mission Growth Market has beauty supplies and groceries, and is located at 183 Charlotte Street.

RITUAL APOTHECARY

Nadine McCallen was the grand prize winner of Win This Space 2018, and will open Ritual Apothecary on Charlotte Street. This new store will carry locally produced skincare, herbal remedies and household products from a variety of sustainable companies focusing on wildcrafted, organic and unrefined ingredients. Grand opening is July 4th at 10 a.m.

CUTE AS A BUTTON

Cute As A Button sells "like new" quality baby clothing (nothing over $4.99) at 185 Charlotte Street (beside Soupcon Bistro).

NO.1 PIZZA & GRILL

Located in the old Apollo Grill location at 402 George Street North, this new restaurant specializes in pizza, poutine and burgers.

—post and photography by Evan Holt

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Independent Record Shop ZAP Records Opening Location At Former Moondance

Independent record shop ZAP Records, which has been located in Downtown Cobourg since 1991, has announced they are opening another location in Downtown Peterborough in the former Moondance store location (425 George St. N.).

“We’ve known Mike at Moondance forever, shopping his collection like every other record collector, and we were just as surprised when he announced his retirement," says Zap Records owner Tim Gorman. "After watching the response and talking with people in Peterborough, we knew we had to do what we could to make sure the location continued to be an independent record shop."

Photo courtesy Tim Gorman

"Mike and Moondance will be missed, and we can obviously never replace him, but we hope that Peterborough will be just as excited as we are to keep the torch burning for independent record shops in downtown Peterborough," adds Gorman, who will be manning the Peterborough store with additional staff.

ZAP Records plans to open the Peterborough location by the end of June, with a great collection of new and previously owned vinyl, CD’s, collectibles and more. They will continue to special order music for customers in search of rare and precious albums.

Their current location in downtown Cobourg will stay exactly where it is.

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