{"id":5846,"date":"2014-03-12T15:30:34","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T19:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=5846"},"modified":"2014-03-12T15:30:34","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T19:30:34","slug":"business-owner-welcomes-community-improvement-plan-assistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/business-owner-welcomes-community-improvement-plan-assistance\/","title":{"rendered":"Business owner welcomes Community Improvement Plan assistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>(Re: Downtown to benefit as Council approves Community Improvement Plan, March 6)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As owner of Caruso &#038; Company I would like to add clarification to the statement made by Councillor Evelyn Buck referencing Caruso &#038; Company and the condition of Aurora\u2019s downtown, specifically  \u201cBusinesses like Caruso &#038; Company have thrived and just want Council to \u2018get out of their way.\u2019\u201d<br \/>\nTo be clear, I have never spoken to Councillor Buck, nor have I ever expressed my opinions in any way to her regarding the Town\u2019s level of involvement in the downtown core.<br \/>\nI cannot speak for other businesses in the area but, personally, I applaud Aurora Town Council for implementing the Community Improvement Plan and welcome any assistance the Town may have to offer.<br \/>\nThe initiatives and resources within the plan will benefit business and stakeholders in the area who may need help and any improvements to the area will benefit the Town as a whole.<br \/>\nI can only describe Councillor Buck\u2019s inability to see the \u201cdecay\u201d in the downtown core as disappointing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mike Caruso, Owner<br \/>\nCaruso &#038; 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Company I would like to add clarification to the statement made by Councillor Evelyn Buck referencing Caruso &#038; Company and the condition of Aurora\u2019s downtown, specifically \u201cBusinesses like Caruso &#038; Company have thrived and just want Council to [&hellip;]<\/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-5846","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\/p3D2k4-1wi","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-06 13:18:32","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\/5846","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=5846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}