A local Lakefield business owner has been awarded this week with the inaugural Rural Entrepreneur Award.
At the Rural Ontario Municipal Association annual conference held from January 18 to 20, Tanya Bailey local business owner of the Cheesy Fromage in Lakefield was presented with the award by the Minister of Rural Affairs Hon. Lisa Thompson during the Rural Inspiration portion of the conference.
While presenting the award to Bailey, Thompson said, “Tanya Bailey and the Cheesy Fromage embodies the spirit of rural Ontario,” said Hon. Lisa Thompson, Minister of Rural Affairs. “Rural small businesses like Cheesy Fromage are what keeps rural Ontario moving. It is rural small businesses in our rural communities that make Ontario the economic engine of Canada. That is why it is so important to celebrate the entrepreneurial spirit that is found each and every day in rural Ontario.”
Bailey told the Herald that she was first nominated for this award by Minister Lisa Thompson, who visited her store this summer. Bailey said that Thompson was inspired by her story, the shop and their dedication to supporting local Ontario products.
Performing Arts Lakefield hosted a hilarious show by ventriloquist Michael Harrison on Sunday January 18 at the United Church in Lakefield.
The Quinte Health North Hastings Hospital in Bancroft has requested a $10,000 pledge from North Kawartha Township in an effort to raise funds for a new X-Ray machine.
During the January 13 council meeting in North Kawartha, Tammy Davis, Interim Program Director Emergency, Community and Rural Services gave a delegation to council outlining the current needs of the Hospital and the impacts is has on North Kawartha residents.
Davis told council that she
had been there before when the hospital was fundraising for a new CT Scanner at which point the township did contribute $10,000 to that cause.
In Ontario, hospitals are responsible for paying for all equipment within their facilities. They get no funding from the province to help them purchase, maintain, or operate their machines.
This means that hospitals are almost constantly trying to raise funds from their communities to afford up-to-date, functioning equipment to serve their patients.
A Lakefield local has been cast in the new reality TV series Canada Shores premiering this week on January 22.
Emett Watson will be one of 10 young Canadians living together in a lake house in Kelowna British Columbia. The show will air on Paramount+ and is a spinoff of Jersey Shore.
The premise of the show is that the 10 young, single Canadians will live together at the lake house, forming bonds, partying, and of course, flirting. According to Paramount+ website, in this Canadian Original show will follow a crew of party-loving housemates as they settle into a Kelowna lake house for an unforgettable, unfiltered summer filled with drama, hookups, and laugh-out-loud chaos.
Watson is one of those houseguests and while he now calls Vancouver home, his hometown is actually Lakefield. His parents are Ken & Karen Watson.
He told the Herald that he grew up in Lakefield until he was 10 years old, then moved to Stoney Lake and eventually into Peterborough.
This short documentary is a portrait of a tiny town, Lakefield, Ontario, and its independent weekly, the Herald. Across North America, newspapers are dying, but in Lakefield, Terry McQuitty, the town paper’s publisher, carries on a rich, 150-year-old tradition. Set to the pace of small-town life, Unheralded is a testament to the vital role newspapers can still play, and the close bond between reporter and reader.
