Tag: health
Wendy Belisle Fitness Helps Find Your Best Form
Wendy Belisle is a health, fitness and rehab expert with more than 25 years of experience. She works with people with any level of fitness, building strength, conditioning and helping those recovering from injury. …
Millbrook Community Care Delivers With Our Support
Community Care is an organization developed to support the health and well-being of seniors and adults with physical challenges live independently in their home. It provides a wide range of services to help them…
Local Weight Loss Group Hosts Weight Loss Queen
Darlene Gauweiler understands the frustration of those struggling to lose those last ten or fifteen pounds. She shed 144 pounds over two years, but it took another entire year to lose those last ten…
Family Doctor Recruitment Starts with Accurate Data
Data drives decisions: that’s the message behind Lori Richey’s presentation to Council in August, where she outlined her role as Healthcare Advancement Coordinator for Peterborough County. Established in October, 2023, the position creates a…
Supporting a Strategy to Conserve and Enhance our Watershed
Have you ever heard the phrase, “Think globally, act locally”? The folks volunteering with the Baxter Creek Watershed Alliance (BCWA) have been acting on this here in our community since the early days of…
Enduro Mountain Bike Race Returns October 6th
At the August Council meeting, Enduro Race organizer Alex Schmidt was on hand to request permission to use part of the Millbrook Valley Trail system for another edition of the Ganny Enduro Mountain Bike…
Doula by day, Chemist by Night?
Georget Pounall has been creating skin and hair care products for family, friends and young “customers” since 2020. A practicing Doula, in her day job she supports families as they follow the transformative journey…
Community Paramedicine Program Alleviates Pressures on Hospitals and Patients
Peterborough County/City Paramedics (PCCP) provides emergency medical care to citizens and visitors of both Peterborough County and City. Their territory covers a population of almost 150,000 and an area of more than 3.8 million…
One Paw at a Time Helps Owners Enjoy Their Dogs
For twenty minutes, Stark, a five-year-old purebred Dalmatian, sat gazing patiently at his owner Becky, wondering when the conversation she was in would be over and the fun would begin. They were at a…