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Fenelon’s outdoor amphitheatre gets set for August grand opening

Tim Wisener, co-founder of The Grove Theatre and Nicole Myers-Mitchell, general manager.

The Grove Theatre, Fenelon Falls’ new amphitheatre, is the first of its kind in Kawartha Lakes. It’s an outdoor theatre space where professional theatre, concerts, live music and other community events will animate the stage for locals and tourists alike.

Nicole Myers-Mitchell, general manager of The Grove Theatre, says the project “arose from a shared vision in the community.”

She sees it as a place where “all the fun, laughter and spontaneity that has been missing from our lives of late” can once again happen.

Thanks to significant support from donors, sponsors, volunteers and patrons, Myers-Mitchell says they have accomplished a great deal so far. “We are well on our way to achieving our goal.”

The Grove Theatre team is still looking for support to take the facility over the top before its grand opening in August.

Book a tour at grovetheatre.ca or contact The Grove Theatre at info@grovetheatre.ca or call 705887-7937 to get involved. 8

A Place Called Home needs active support in community fundraiser

With COVID-19 restrictions still in effect, A Place Called Home is unable to hold its usual group cycling event to raise much-needed funds. However, the homeless shelter is drawing on its characteristic ingenuity and appealing to the community for help.

For the past 17 years, the Kawartha Lakes Classic Cycling Tour has been one of the largest fundraisers for the agency. This year, though, the virtual event is not just for cyclists. Organizers are encouraging participants to safely walk, run, horseback ride, swim, kayak or cycle, following government-mandated rules, on or before Aug. 28. There is no registration fee, and donors will receive a charitable tax

Deb Smith, a volunteer board member for A Place Called Home, is cycle-ready for the shelter’s big fundraiser. receipt. The shelter provides temporary housing for Photo: Sienna Frost. youth, adults, couples and families and is the only organization of its kind in Kawartha Lakes and Haliburton. The shelter has not been in use since pandemic restrictions were enacted in March of 2020, given that its shared bedrooms didn’t conform to physical distancing requirements.

To rebuild the agency with physically separate bedrooms, as well as create an accessible shelter and five new affordable transitional/supportive rental units, A Place Called Home is redeveloping its site at 64 Lindsay St. S in Lindsay. It has already secured major capital funding from the provincial government and the City of Kawartha Lakes, but needs to raise a further $1.5 million from the community. For more information and to register visit www. kawarthaclassic.com

Business UPFRONT

Award-winning facility drawing management company is located in Lindsay

Engineering drawings are the lifeblood of managing any facility. They guide the initial construction stage, instruct architects and provide important value for maintenance, planning and operations for the future. Managing and preserving these paper engineering drawings (blueprints) and/or digital drawings is a critical component of a facility’s health, productivity and safety.

Tammy Mitchell, marketing specialist at DCM Inc. in Lindsay, says facility managers are those essential workers who maintain and preserve some of the world’s most valued assets — buildings. Facility managers are “constantly solving building problems we didn’t know we had, in a way we don’t often understand,” she tells the Advocate.

Whether it’s the local recreational facility, hospital, school board, hotel, resort, apartment building, church, mall or community centre there is a facility manager working their magic. However, facility managers across

Facility managers are essential and help maintain and preserve buildings.

the globe struggle with keeping their engineering drawings organized, up-to-date and accessible for their teams, due to staff turnover, lack of long-term planning or inhouse facility management support.

DCM is removing this burden from facility managers by implementing a way to manage these drawings for their unique situation. “Our vision is to simplify the complicated world of engineering drawing management for facilities managers across the globe,” says Mitchell.

DCM is fresh off a win for the 2021 Canadian Business Awards in the category of Best Facility Management Document Conversion Management Company. To learn more, visit drawingspecialists.com

Hypnotherapist Hilary Leehane, consulting hypnotherapist, originally trained as aims to help people an industrial designer — someone who develops concepts for manufactured products. The job would have combined art, business and discover more fulfilling lives engineering. However, six months after graduating, she developed a severe sleeping disorder that threw her imagined life “off the tracks,” she says. “Among the doctors I saw and medications I took, the single most effective treatment I found was hypnosis.” The Little Britain resident, who recently opened State of Mind Hypnosis in Lindsay, has been qualified as a practicing hypnotherapist for the past two years. She says the most common reasons for visiting a hypnotherapist are anxiety and weight loss. “Luckily, it only takes a few sessions to release most anxieties and my weight loss program has been very successful,” she says. Many people also use hypnosis to explore their spirituality, another side of the work she enjoys. While many people think hypnotherapy is like what they see on stage or in movies, Leehane says that’s not it at all. “My clients would tell you that they go into a state where they are more relaxed than they have ever been. They are aware and awake the whole time. We have conversations back and forth and they release all their limiting beliefs about themselves.” State of Mind Hypnosis is located at 84 Russell St. W. Learn more at Hilary Leehane, hypnotherapist. Photo: Sienna Frost. somhypnosis.com or call 705-313-9179