{"id":21895,"date":"2018-10-12T14:32:38","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T18:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=21895"},"modified":"2018-10-12T14:32:38","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T18:32:38","slug":"kim-clarifies-wording-of-debate-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/kim-clarifies-wording-of-debate-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim clarifies wording of debate question"},"content":{"rendered":"

I would like to offer a bit of clarity with regards to a \u201cquote\u201d attributed to me.
\nDuring the Chamber debate, Mayoral candidates were asked to comment on the following question:
\n\u201cCouncillor Harold Kim (from his interview in the Aurora July 26, 2018) believes that the Aurora \u2018Main Street\u2019 should be located in the Bayview Corridor (aka Bayview Avenue) as opposed to the Yonge St corridor. What is your opinion on this?\u201d
\nWith greatest respect, that was not my position at all. With regard to the quote in question (please see the July 26, 2018 edition of The Auroran) I was referencing the exciting possibilities that the proposed \u201cMain Street\u201d-like development that Mr. Frank Stronach has planned for the Magna Lands.
\nIn no way was it a suggestion that we move our downtown to Bayview Avenue.
\nAurora has a downtown \u2013 historic Yonge street. The very heart of our community and I am a firm believer in the energizing of Yonge Street and the Promenade area. We need a strong business and social presence on Yonge Street, which is why I have worked hard with my Council colleagues this term to build on the work of previous Councils and residents and businesses to re-develop Library Square to spur on the redevelopment of our Downtown Core.
\nA strong central core is vital to a healthy community and I look forward to continuing to revitalize and re-energize our Downtown core.<\/p>\n

Harold Kim
\nCouncil Candidate
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I would like to offer a bit of clarity with regards to a \u201cquote\u201d attributed to me. During the Chamber debate, Mayoral candidates were asked to comment on the following question: \u201cCouncillor Harold Kim (from his interview in the Aurora July 26, 2018) believes that the Aurora \u2018Main Street\u2019 should be located in the Bayview […]<\/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":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-5H9","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 08:28:34","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\/21895","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=21895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}