A new program by the Peterborough YWCA is helping women navigate both
the family and criminal court system. The court support program has been
established to give ...
Marilynne Lesperance's mother was murdered when she was just nine
years old. Carla Watson was the victim of a violent home. Jane van Nood
believed that every mother ...
For 25 years now, Haliburton County has been covered by the services
of the YWCA Women's Centre, which provides not only counselling and
shelter to abused ...
The YWCA has been helping women in Haliburton County for 25 years and
while violence against women persists, the organization continues to
strive for a better day ...
Don your grooviest getup and get down with entertainment by Carl
Dixon Friday, November 18 at McKecks for Peace, Love and Acoustic
Guitar. A fun and funky ...
The Bras Around The Building campaign to mark the October For Breast
Cancer Awareness Month in support of the Canadian Cancer Society took
place Friday ...
Strength. Hope. Support. These words highlight just some of the
benefits women experience at YWCA's Haliburton Emergency Rural SafeSpace
(HERS) when fleeing ...
Communities across the country helped put an end to violence against
women and chidren, as the Royal LePage Shelter Foundation hosted its 3rd
annual National ...
Women in Haliburton may soon have a new business opportunity on their
doorstep. The YWCA Women in Business program currently offered in
Muskoka may be coming to ...
Empty Bowls was a great way to help a good cause while enjoying a
tasty lunch and receiving a beautifully handcrafted bowl. The
collaboration of Kawartha Potters Guild ...
YWCA Peterborough, Victoria & Haliburton says farewell to the former
Crossroads Shelter, located at 550 Water Street. For more than 25 years,
this historic brick home ...
The executive director of the local YWCA has received a national
award. Lynn Zimmer received the Cleta Herman award during the national
YWCA membership meeting in ...
For 120 years, YWCA Peterborough, Victoria & Haliburton has been a
leading agency for women who are at a turning point in their lives.
Founded in 1891, the YWCA has provided ...
What do Haliburton women need to succeed in business? YWCA
Peterborough, Victoria & Haliburton intends to adopt the highly
successful Women in Business training ...
A Peterborough real-estate agent donated her commission, from selling
a former women's shelter, to Peterborough's new YWCA shelter. Mary Ellen
McCamus, of ...
Standing in their leather, loafer-style men's shoes, Bill Crowther
and Steve Porter were completely at ease. Partners in Collins Barrow
Chartered Accountants, the two men ...
Walk a Mile in Her Shoes will take place Friday at noon. Men, it's
time to get out your bright-red high-heeled shoes -- this Friday is Walk
a Mile in Her Shoes event ...
The annual Freedom Walk in support of YWCA Peterborough, Victoria &
Haliburton was held at Nicholl’s Oval. The walk was held on a warm day
full of fun, laughter and ...
Women took a walk for a special cause Saturday morning and it was
deemed a major success. The inaugural Red Pashmina Walk took place along
the Millennium Trail ...
YWCA executive director Lynn Zimmer looks up at city firefighter
Brian Honey and his size 16 red shoes as fire Chief Trent Gervais, back
from left, and fire prevention ...
Buying a scarf in Peterborough can help change the lives of women
living in war-ravaged Afghanistan. And a new poster campaign featuring
local Women on Impact is part of ...
Next year could be quite the milestone for the YWCA Freedom Walk and
its organizers. With more than $30,000 estimated to be raised from this
year's Peterborough, ...
A mile is a relatively short distance. For most people, it's an easy
walk. But on May 27th, one mile turns into an uncomfortable journey of
blisters, leg cramps, sore ...
Joan Adamson donned a bald wig, lit-up satan horns and a scruffy fake
beard as she banged on the drum set watching her daughter and
granddaughter dance on ...
A number of area women
were honoured for their contribution to community and the betterment of
the lives of other women at a ceremony at Haliburton's Fleming ...
Exactly 21 years ago, on December 6th, an enraged gunman by the name
of Marc Lepine stormed through Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique and killed
14 female ...
Calls to the
county's women's centre have been steadily increasing over the last
three years from those looking for a way out of abusive situations, the
YWCA outreach ...
Minden Home Hardware hosted its 3rd annual ladies' night last Friday
to kick off the holiday season, and for many it was round one of the
annual Christmas shop ...
Women admired for the positive
difference they are making in the lives of women in Haliburton County
will be honoured at the upcoming second annual Guardian ...
Four social housing providers have announced they're cracking down on
second-hand smoke in their facilities. Keene Non-Profit Housing, St.
Barnabus Housing ...
A women-only open house was held Tuesday at the Crossroads women’s
shelter at the corner of Simcoe and Stewart streets. Each visitor got a
tour of the new 25 ...
Re "New YWCA shelter impresses women" (Oct. 6) I attended the open house for the Crossroads shelter. We were greeted
by Lynn Zimmer and members of her staff who gave us an extended tour of
the facility and ...
A steady stream of visitors kept staff at the new YWCA shelter busy
Tuesday during a women-only open house. Lynn Zimmer, executive director
for the YWCA, said ...
On Tuesday (Oct. 5) women had a chance to tour through the new YWCA
Crossroads Safe Haven Shelter and see firsthand all that the new women's
shelter has to offer ...
An inaugural Peace Expo will be held in Lansdowne Place mall on
October 14 as part of Week Without Violence events. Everyone's invited
to the event, to be held ...
It has certainly been a busy few months as Warden, and I find it a
real honour to represent our County at everything from ribbon cuttings,
anniversary ...
Fall 2010 issue 68 - 0068 -
Women of Influence Magazine
MBA programs give women
the tools to speed up the culture change happening at higher corporate
levels. It's too bad not many women are taking advantage of the ...
The Peterborough and the
Kawarthas Association of Realtors recently presented a cheque for
$14,040 to the YWCA Safe Haven Campaign. The donation will be ...
69th annual
campaign kicked off in style at Wednesday breakfast. The United Way of
Peterborough and District has set a 2010 campaign goal of $2,550,000 --
...
The opening date of
the new women's shelter has been delayed again and the building likely
won't open until October, a YWCA official said. Peterborough ...
Any person, man or woman, that comes
forward and admits they have been a victim of violence is brave beyond
words. "But when that victim is Belleville's police ...
Federal funding
announced Friday was aimed at helping women in Peterborough. MP Dean Del
Mastro announced $135,550 for programs aimed at improving the ...
One of the
city's oldest businesses celebrated its birthday Monday. The
CIBC on the corner of George and Hunter streets turned 140.
Staff at the downtown branch ...
Lynn Zimmer, the local YWCA executive director, is nothing if
not persistent. Zimmer came so often to county council, seeking
funding and support for the new ...
When Doug
Kirk was preparing for his first hip replacement, one of the
things on his to-do list was to make a donation to the YWCA
Crossroads Safe Haven ...
After David and Mary Timms got married, the bottle of bubbly
that popped following the wedding in 1969 was later transformed
into a lamp. Forty-one years later, ...
Walk a Mile in Her Shoes - Thank you Peterborough!
Walk a Mile in Her Shoes May 8, 2010 - CHEX Newswatch
Well-Heeled Fundraiser
May 8, 2010 - Peterborough Examiner
Their faces grim, their expressions determined, they marched down
George Street in three inch heels. One hundred and sixty men, with
burning calf muscles, their ...
A celebration recognizing more than 280 volunteers from communities
across the Peterborough area was held at the Trentwinds International
Centre on Friday ...
George St. is going to be
overrun with pedestrians on Friday morning. It's not for a street fair,
or a protest. It'll be men, hundreds of them, teetering, marching and
...
On May 7 the local YWCA is
holding its annual Walk-A-Mile In Her Shoes event where men will strut
their stuff down George Street to raise awareness and funds to ...
Dressed in colourful pyjamas, Nancy "Freeda the Freedom Walker" Thomson
said she feels blessed to have lived a life free of violence and abuse.
That's why she ...
The YWCA JustFood Program is one secret recipe that Christine is
anxious to share - she publicizes the valuable food resource to everyone
and everywhere: the bus ...
City police Staff Sgt. John Lyons squared his shoulders. He
concentrated on his feet.
He took a few tentative steps forward, making sure to walk heel to toe
in his red ...
Thanks to donations from
across the community, the Peterborough Victoria and Haliburton YWCA is
opening a new Peterborough facility, this summer, to shelter ...
Three months remain until the 10,000 square-foot YWCA Crossroads Shelter
opens to the devastating number of women and children experiencing
domestic violence ...
YWCA Crossroads Shelter construction on schedule with help from the community
February 2010 - CHEX TV
The following interview was given by Joėlle
Favreau, Community Development and Compass Training Supervisor YWCA of
Peterborough, Victoria & Haliburton, a ...
It might not have been the largest fundraiser that Haliburton County
has ever seen, however, the first-ever YWCA Banish the Blues event
undoubtedly did raise ...
For more than 118 years, the YWCA of Peterborough, Victoria and
Haliburton has been a leading agency for women who are at a turning
point in their lives ...
It was another year of daredevils and parking jams, but this year's
Polar Plunge raised a record $42,900 and more donations are still
expected to come in, ...
No woman should have to fear for their life or for the safety of
their children. The sad truth, however, is that more than 50 per cent of
Canadian women will experience ...
Rick Fines is "Good to Go" on Feb. 13 at Pinestone Resort when he
appears with Suzie Vinnick for the YWCA Banish Your February Blues Event
in an acoustic ...
We had a wonderful turnout of 74 people on a snowy evening in Minden
at our first annual YWCA Guardian Angel Awards held at the Beaver
Theatre on December 6 ...
Lonely Holidays made Better in the Local Community
December 2009 - CHEX Television
Twenty-one years ago Joyce Watson was shot by her husband with a
legal hunting rifle. She was murdered while trying to move her children
and their belongings ...
Re "Support for gun registry is missing the target" (Editorial,Nov.
25) - The YWCA supports the registration of guns as a tool to
protect the safety of women and ...
For families struggling to get by on low income, eating healthy,
locally produced fruits and vegetables often take a back seat to food
that is fast, inexpensive and often ...
An Ottawa native, fresh out of Carleton University with a Bachelor of
Commerce degree, young Erica Cohen worked in her family's furniture
business for three ...
Women who flee domestic violence face an "incredible" amount of red
tape and barriers navigating through the system, especially if they're
of low income, ...
The cost of nutritious food is becoming a burden for families and
single people living on low-income budgets, a study by the Peterborough
County-City Health Unit ...
Standing before a pile of
rubble, YWCA executive director Lynn Zimmer pointed to the place where
the new women's shelter will stand ...
Ready to build shelter
September 4, 2009 - Peterborough Examiner
The YWCA of Peterborough, Victoria and Haliburton moved closer to the
construction of its new women's shelter with the demolition of one of
its old facilities yesterday ...
Katie is still scared of her former husband. The 32-year-old mother
of two doesn’t feel safe, even though she has since fled from the
relationship ...
YWCA Peterborough, Victoria &
Haliburton exists to support the right of all women and their
families
to live free from violence, poverty and oppression.
YWCA Peterborough, Victoria &
Haliburton 216 Simcoe Street, Peterborough, ON K9H 2H7
T (705) 743-3526 TTY (705) 743-4015
F (705) 745-4654
info@ywcapeterborough.org
YWCA Women's Centre of Haliburton
County PO Box 348, 11 Bobcaygeon Road, Minden, ON K0M 2K0
T (705) 286-1942 Support (705) 286-6442
F (705) 286-4341
ywcahal@bellnet.ca
