{"id":17626,"date":"2017-06-21T17:10:30","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T21:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=17626"},"modified":"2017-06-21T17:10:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T21:10:30","slug":"aurora-to-welcome-swedish-twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/aurora-to-welcome-swedish-twins\/","title":{"rendered":"Aurora to welcome Swedish \u201ctwins\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Brock Weir<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Aurorans are invited to come out to Town Hall next Thursday, June 29, to welcome our Swedish \u201ctwins.\u201d<br \/>\nA delegation from Leksand, Sweden, the Scandinavian town \u201ctwinned\u201d with the Town of Aurora, will be here next week for a cultural exchange and to take part in the Canada 150 Celebrations on Canada Day next Saturday, July 1.<br \/>\nA public welcoming ceremony will be held at Town Hall starting at 8.30 on the morning of June 29 before the delegation, which consists of Leksand\u2019s Mayor, Vice-Mayor, and City Manager, get down to business.<br \/>\n\u201cOne of the things they are interested in is learning a bit more on how we do our processes with planning and housing, and physical planning for the Town, recreation planning and that type of thing and some of the administrative processes that we go through,\u201d says Mayor Geoff Dawe. \u201cOur staff are preparing some short presentations with their group on things like subdivision planning, planning for new soccer fields, and a lot of that basic-type stuff.\u201d<br \/>\nTheir presence, he says, will add a bit of extra \u201cpizazz\u201d to the Canada Day party and afford the two municipalities to compare notes on rapid growth. 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