{"id":10662,"date":"2015-05-13T17:25:38","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T21:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=10662"},"modified":"2015-05-13T17:25:38","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T21:25:38","slug":"leaving-space-unused-five-days-a-week-is-beyond-ridiculous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/leaving-space-unused-five-days-a-week-is-beyond-ridiculous\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaving space unused five days a week is \u201cbeyond ridiculous\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is in response to \u201cBrock\u2019s Banter\u201d in the April 30 edition of The Auroran.<br \/>\nThe focus of the column was to encourage young people to make use of the up-dated facilities at the Family Leisure Complex. I think this is a sentiment most people would support.<br \/>\nLet us keep in mind that for 9 \u00bd months of the year, these young people will be in school for five days of the week from approximately 9 a.m, to 3 p.m. As the column suggests, Aurora seniors could make use of the facilities during the time it is not being used by the young people.<br \/>\nThe column also suggests that the young people might feel it is \u201cuncool\u201d to use a facility recently vacated by seniors, and the young people wouldn\u2019t have a place to \u201ctruly call their own\u201d.<br \/>\nAs a tax paying Aurora senior, I feel to keep a large town facility empty during much of the five days of the week so that our youth don\u2019t feel uncool, is beyond ridiculous.<br \/>\nI think I can safely say, if seniors are allowed to use this facility, we will try not to leave our canes and our knitting around so we won\u2019t frighten the children.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nEileen Polsoni<br \/>\nAurora<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>(Editor\u2019s Note: I agree that scenario would be \u201cbeyond ridiculous\u201d. However, the April 30 column was not speaking about the Aurora Family Leisure Complex as a whole, rather \u201cThe Loft\u201d on the second floor and associated amenities. \u2013 B.W.)<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is in response to \u201cBrock\u2019s Banter\u201d in the April 30 edition of The Auroran. The focus of the column was to encourage young people to make use of the up-dated facilities at the Family Leisure Complex. I think this is a sentiment most people would support. Let us keep in mind that for 9 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}