June 2019 Archive
Skateboard park to get $600K overhaul
The skateboard park at the Aurora Family Leisure Complex is set for a $600,000 overhaul to correct mistakes stemming from its construction in 2015.
Protecting residents in older neighbourhoods?
Councils have tried to protect older neighbourhoods in past years and failed. The difference this time is that Aurora has new Planning Policy in place ...
Words matter when it comes to Pride: resident
Last weekend was #YorkPride and Aurora was #AuroraProud. Aurora is always proud and has many reasons to be proud. When it comes to LGBTQ2 and ...
BROCK’S BANTER: On Being “Cute”
By Brock Weir Recent statistics pegging general human life expectancy at a decline or, at best, stagnating after a steep incline are alarming, to say ...
FRONT PORCH PERSPECTIVE: Help Wanted: Personable, Organized Person Needed at Shoppers Drug Mart
By Stephen Somerville I first met Buster Flynn some twenty plus years ago in Aurora. It was sometime between 1997 and 1999. I had become ...
GETTING THINGS DONE
By Mayor Tom Mrakas This past week at General Committee, Council addressed the ongoing issue of the Skateboard park over at the AFLC. Anyone that ...
TIME TRAVELLER’S DIARY: A great time to be a kid
By Marilyn Merrikin Community Time Traveller It was July 1, a widely anticipated day by children and adults alike in our little Town of Aurora; ...
Museum’s film examines close ties between Aurora and Regiment
By Brock Weir Muskets on their backs, they marched through what is now Sheppard’s Bush Conservation Area prepared for enemy fire. Their forest green uniforms ...
New rules could allow bylaw officers to enter properties without search warrant
By Brock Weir Municipal bylaw officers could enter onto private property without a search warrant, following the passage of new rules by Council this week. ...
Sports field shortfall to rise by nearly 20 in “not too distant future”
Aurora has been short on sports fields for nearly a decade, and this shortfall is only expected to get worse in the “not too distant future,” according to Town Staff.
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