May 2016 Archive
Next phase of Yonge Street Parking Plan due next week
By Brock Weir Next steps to a plan proposed by Mayor Geoff Dawe to limit traffic on Yonge Street in the Downtown Core to one ...
Youth artists, musicians take over Cultural Centre for Aurora Unplugged
Emerging musicians, spoken word artists and other performers are set to show the community what they’re made of at the inaugural Aurora Unplugged. Taking over the Aurora Cultural Centre this Friday from 7 – 9 p.m., the Aurora Unplugged Coffeehouse is the brainchild of Joey Ferguson and Jane Taylor of the Cultural Centre to give youth a venue to make their own.
Skate parks and brew pub considered in new vision for Aurora
They are buildings that have sat underused and without use for many years, but a new study is suggesting ways to breathe new life into community hubs all around Aurora. Council is set to tackle...
Life is a never-ending adventure for gardener Dierdre Tomlinson
There are those who go through certain trauma and come through the other side without complaint. Then there are those who are adventurous, promiscuous, chatty enough to take up all the air space around them yet have nothing to say. Some others display aggression against their neighbours. A slice of ordinary human existence? Perhaps. But, this is how Dierdre Tomlinson sees her garden.
Door-to-door sales ban will protect seniors: MPP
This past spring, Aurora took steps to get tough on door-to-door sales; but now the Province of Ontario is poised to take things a step further with an outright ban on the sales of air conditioners, water heaters, furnaces, and water treatment systems.
Revamped Pipes & Drums Centre pays tribute to teacher
It isn’t every day you can go to work and walk through the doors of a building bearing your name. But, it is an honour Jim McGillivray experiences every day as he walks
Long-term care facility, retirement home planned for south Aurora
A new retirement home and long term care facility will be built in the south end of Aurora, pending Council’s approval this week. Councillors gave the tentative green light at the committee...
BROCK’S BANTER: In all of us command?
By Brock Weir Some readers will remember all too well Canada’s flag wars of the early 1960s as Liberal Prime Minister – and hometown boy ...
POLITICS AS USUAL: Wither UberX?
By Alison Collins-Mrakas I had to take a cab home from the gym the other day (long story…) and, as I was in a chatty ...
FRONT PORCH PERSPECTIVE: Reply to Our Lady of Grace
By Stephen Somerville In my last column entitled, “Our Lady of Grace – New Church and Homilies” I wrote about two topics. I first gave ...
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