May 2014 Archive
Tree replacement following ice storm clocks in at $88,000
An $88,000 plan to replace 125 street trees felled during the pre-Christmas Ice Storm is expected to be approved at Council this week. Councillors signed off on the plan at the committee level last Tuesday which...
New 50 metre tower will help GO Transit service growth: report
Another telecommunications tower will soon dot the Aurora landscape, this time near the intersection of Edward Street and Engelhard Drive. The 46 metre communications tower is proposed by Metrolinx and GO Transit near the Engelhard railway crossing, and...
Aurora Garden Fair will give ideas for your “little piece of heaven”
The Aurora Garden & Horticultural Society might be known for their green thumbs, but when presented with a challenge to get creative, they wasted no time in getting their entire hands dirty to rise to the occasion.
Native women share perspectives in landmark exhibition
As a Metis woman, Nathalie Bertin didn’t discover her Aboriginal heritage until she was in her mid-20s. In Ontario and Quebec, she says, assimilation happened much earlier than it did in Western...
Getting into the Bollywood groove
Amid colourful bursts of Bollywood, drumming, and song, as York Regional Police marked Asian Heritage Month in Aurora on Saturday, the message was clear: we may have come to Canada at different times and in different ways, but we're all in the same boat now.
Heroes honour heroes in inaugural First Responders Day
Brian Hall was just nine when fate set out the course of his life. It was Christmas Eve and the son of an alcoholic single mother had his life turned upside down when his mom, “feeling she couldn’t handle...
Ballard, Twinney take unpaid leave from Council for provincial race
The race is on. After NDP leader Andrea Horwath announced Thursday her party would not be supporting the Liberal Government’s budget on Thursday, Premier Kathleen Wynne went to Lieutenant-Governor David Onley to call a general election for Thursday, June 12.
Final day in Legislature was “bittersweet” for long time MPP
With last week's election call, a 19 year career in politics is winding down for Frank Klees.
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