{"id":19795,"date":"2018-02-08T11:52:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T16:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=19795"},"modified":"2018-02-08T11:52:34","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T16:52:34","slug":"kimberley-kerr-remembered-for-selfless-commitment-to-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/kimberley-kerr-remembered-for-selfless-commitment-to-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Kimberley Kerr remembered for \u201cselfless commitment\u201d to community"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Brock Weir<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kimberley Kerr is being remembered for her \u201cselfless commitment\u201d to her community following her death on Friday.
\nMs. Kerr, a long-time resident of Aurora, lost her battle with ALS just two weeks shy of her 57th birthday.
\nAn active community volunteer for decades, Ms. Kerr was hands-on in her involvement with numerous local organizations ranging from the Aurora Chamber of Commerce to the Optimist Club of Aurora, where she served as president.
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Kimberley Kerr, while president of the Optimist Club, participates in a school supply drive for local students in need — a partnership between the service club and Staples.<\/p><\/div>In recent years, she was a passionate member of the Queen\u2019s York Rangers Regimental Council, a body associated with our local Regiment, which provides services and support for members of the Queen\u2019s York Rangers families, many of whom are adjusting to life following active service.
\n\u201cShe was a fantastic, creative and reliable volunteer for the Queen\u2019s York Rangers,\u201d says Darrell Bricker, Honourary Colonel of the Regiment. \u201cEvery event she was involved in was made better by her efforts. Her selfless commitment was genuine and very respected by all members of our Regimental family. She will be deeply missed by all of us. She was selfless in everything I saw her do. It was never about her; it was always about helping the soldiers and the Regiment and [this] is a tremendous loss for the Rangers.
\n\u201cOur heartfelt condolences go out to her family, friends and all those who knew her.\u201d
\nThese sentiments were echoed by Donald McKenzie, a fellow member of the Regimental Council.
\n\u201cKim was a very fine person and we will miss her dearly,\u201d he said.
\nMayor Geoff Dawe first met Ms. Kerr through the Aurora Chamber of Commerce. When his company was nominated for Business of the Year, it was left to Ms. Kerr to interview the hopefuls.
\n\u201cShe was a very dedicated person and my kind of gal \u2013 she didn\u2019t suffer fools gladly and was always very straight ahead,\u201d Mayor Dawe recalled. \u201cShe was a very committed person. She was always working to build up the community. It sounds simple, but there is a whole lot of work behind that.\u201d
\nSome of that work can be evidenced in local youth programs. Kerr served a term as president of the Optimist Club of Aurora, which supports youth initiatives within Aurora and beyond.
\nIncumbent president Glen Sharp served as secretary during Ms. Kerr\u2019s term and saw her impact firsthand.
\n\u201cWe can sometimes be a little conservative in our ways and Kim was willing to throw ideas out there and she would just run with an idea, not just throw out an idea and let it lie there,\u201d he says. \u201cAs a result we got her on our Board of Directors quite quickly and by about her fourth year she was president of our club because it was just something the club really needed \u2013 she would be dynamic, she would be good. When I was her secretary that year, she was so extremely organized she helped me because her clerical skills were a lot better than mine!
\n\u201cWhat came through loud and clear, every time you talked to Kim, was how much she cared about her family. I can\u2019t say I\u2019ve met too many people where family was so important to her \u2013 and we can\u2019t say enough about what a good job she did for us.\u201d
\nShe is survived by her husband, Bob, and children Ashlyn and Ryan.
\nAs per the family\u2019s wishes, there will be no funeral services but donations may be made in her name to the ALS Clinic at Sunnybrook Hospital. (donate.sunnybrook.ca\/ALS)<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Brock Weir Kimberley Kerr is being remembered for her \u201cselfless commitment\u201d to her community following her death on Friday. Ms. Kerr, a long-time resident of Aurora, lost her battle with ALS just two weeks shy of her 57th birthday. An active community volunteer for decades, Ms. Kerr was hands-on in her involvement with numerous […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general_news","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-59h","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-10 04:46:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19795","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=19795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}