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No Princely opening for Diamond Jubilee Park playground

January 26, 2017   ·   0 Comments

There will be no second princely outing for Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Park. Prince Harry has declined an...

Novice Tigers collect “Pucks for Charity”

Aurora’s Novice AA Tigers started hunting for abandoned pucks throughout the different rinks they played at while playing in the Preston Tournament in mid-January.

Mothers and daughters march for their sisters

By Brock Weir Over her 12 years, Lillie Clark-Gerein says she has always been passionate about women’s rights – and the rights of all people. ...

Centre celebrates 40 years of serving York Region women

“We’re calling this a cause for celebration,” says Catherine Madden, Executive Director of the Women’s Centre of York Region, which celebrates its 40th anniversary in the community.

“Groundbreaking” door-to-door waste collection to start February 6

A pilot project to over 3,000 Aurora homes took than 23 tonnes of textiles out of the waste system last year alone. Starting February 6, the...

Chamber wants answers on vacant storefronts

Next month, Mayor Geoff Dawe is set to deliver his annual address to the local business community. It’s usually a time for the Mayor to give a “state of the town” talk to local business leaders and tout some of the businesses set to make Aurora home in the year ahead. In the lead-up to this year’s speech, however, the Aurora Chamber of Commerce is pressing for answers.

Canada represented “from coast to coast” in milestone art show

Inspired by the forests and rocky terrain of cottage country, “Muskoka Dreams,” a bold painting by King artist Brigitte Granton dominates the equally bold red wall of the Aurora Cultural Centre, in a show celebrating two significant anniversaries. Ms. Granton is one of over 60 artists whose works now fill the walls of...

Small towns provide rich inspiration, says One Book One Aurora author

Brian Francis is a naturally funny guy and humour is something he always wanted to impart in his books, but when he found the short stories of Nobel laureate Alice Munro, something deeper clicked.

Music comes full circle Friday in Great Artists series

By Brock Weir Whether it’s music, art, or life itself, budding piano star Han Chen believes everything comes full circle. And things don’t only go ...

400 years on, Shakespeare’s themes still resonate in Much Ado About Nothing

What do you picture when you hear a story about individuals returning from war either to have to reconnect to a life they left behind or being left to rebuild their life from scratch?

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