April 2018 Archive
INSIDE AURORA: The Big Day
By Scott Johnston “It’s a big day today.” “I’ll say. May 16, 1853. The day the first steam train rolled into our little hamlet. People ...
VIEW FROM QUEEN’S PARK: Senior Care
By Chris Ballard, MPP Newmarket-Aurora One of the issues that concerns me most, and always has, is the care we take of our seniors. Whether ...
Ratepayers clarify stance on Stable Neighbourhoods study
In order to clarify any misunderstanding of our position on the Stable Neighbourhoods Study, we write this with the agreed understanding that we are not ...
Councillors tangle over booze bill entertaining Canadian Food & Wine Institute
Niagara College’s Canadian Institute of Food & Wine is set to soon bring its viniculture expertise to Aurora, but a dinner held before Council inked its agreement to transform the Aurora Armoury into a satellite campus of the college has one Councillor seeing red.
Green For Life makes $1 million gift to Hospice
Green for Life has donated $1 million towards the completion of the Margaret Bahen Hospice, a 10-bed residential hospice in Newmarket serving the residents of York Region and South Simcoe.
Advocate accepts award in name of anonymous hero who gave her life
Arlene Lindsay may have taken home the award, but she didn’t accept it just for herself – she also accepted it on behalf of a man she never got the chance to know but who nevertheless gave her the gift of life.
Art with Heart brings out the colours of life
During her recovery on the road to mental wellness, Liza Cadawas found she was having a hard time expressing herself. She felt “stalled” and at a crossroads, but once she found some paints and a few pencil crayons in hand, she felt a new world opening up to her and that roadblock to self-expression slowly lifting away.
Last chance to explore history of one of Aurora’s founding businesses
It might be a safe bet to wager there haven’t been that many members of the Fleury family in Aurora for the better part of a century, but local heritage came full circle last fall as generations of one of the Town’s founding families gathered to open The Plow in the Crest.
Collaboration with school board is essential to tackle recreation crunch: advocates
Time is of the essence to address shortfalls in Aurora’s recreation facilities, according to advocates, and Council agrees that a possible solution might be found on the current site of Dr. G.W. Williams Secondary School.
Partnerships on new high school could lead to more community space
There is a “renewed level of enthusiasm and energy” between the Town and the York Region District School Board on possible partnerships on a new building when they move Dr. G.W. Williams Secondary School to Bayview Avenue, according to Mayor Geoff Dawe.
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