StoosNews Spotlight: Check Out The Business Beat Featuring Kingdon Timber Mart, Grady's Shoes & 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…

Starting in Lakefield in 1927, 94 years in the same location, Kingdon Timber Mart recently expanded to an amazing new building and lumber yard at the corner of the Buckhorn Road and the 8th line, just West of Lakefield. Owners Don and Kevin Dyck and Dave Breukelaar recently opened the new location to the public with all of the proper safety protocols in place.

Kingdon Truss and the Lansdowne Street location continue operations. Congratulations to everyone on the amazing growth of the Kingdon business. 

New Lakefield location

Farmcrest Marketplace and Event Centre is opening their outdoor summer season at the Trentwinds Convention Centre on Lansdowne Street East. Operating from 8 am to 1 pm, The Farmcrest Marketplace Team have been working closely with the Peterborough Health Unit and are operating in a manner that promotes public health and safety during Covid-19. You’ll find vegetables and fruits in season, fresh eggs, goat cheeses and soaps, bedding and vegetable plants, potted flowers, homemade jams, jellies and preserves, perogies, cabbage rolls and much more! Check it out this Saturday: Farmcrest Marketplace at the Trentwinds, Lansdowne Street just East of Ashburnham.

I missed them when they opened, so let’s congratulate Denise and Keith Rye (pictured below) on their one year anniversary as owners of the Jani-King franchise in Peterborough! Jani-King is a recognized leader in commercial building cleaning, providing disinfecting services in addition to general cleaning of commercial and industrial building spaces. Long-time residents of the Peterborough area, Denise and Keith are excited to be growing their business locally. You can reach them at 705-930-7577.

Like so many local businesses, Grady’s Shoes recently pivoted to offer Curbside Pickup at 231 King St., Peterborough (corner of King & Aylmer) and FREE Local Delivery. Go to Gradys.ca for details, but let’s all remember that Grady’s is just one example of hundreds of local businesses who are doing their best to survive, to reopen, and to do so with the safety of you and their employees as their first priority. The story of the resilience of the local Peterborough business community has yet to be written, but meanwhile let’s salute our local businesses. #lovelocalptbo

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