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THE AURORAN, Thursday, May 20, 2021 Page 1 REMOTE CLIENT CONSULTS • VIRTUAL OPEN HOUSES • ELECTRONIC SIGNATURES • SAFETY PROTOCOLS Complimentary Staging • Photography • Evaluations • Consultations Barrons LifestyleWINDOWS INC. OasisHOME PRODUCTS ANGELA JONES Sales Representative OPEN CURBSIDE 905.717.6027 Windows [email protected] 10–5 DOUG SABISTON Prewrapped Gifts Doors Sales Representative 416.899.1083 Friendship-Birthday-New Home Enclosures [email protected] Window Display and Website 905-751-0533|14-40 Englehard Dr. www.DougandAngela.ca NW. corner of Industrial Pkwy S. 905.726.4349 www.barronshome.net YEARS Aurora’s Community Newspaper CMCA Vol. 21 No. 31 905-727-3300 TheAuroran.com FREE Week of May 20, 2021 AUDITED GET AHEAD CONNECTING THIS SUMMER! Registration is now open COMMUNITY for online OSSD credits. Open to all High School students! ONE PEDAL Register: www.pickeringcollege.on.ca/credits AT A TIME specializing in AT A TIME York Foot Orthotics & Bracing Jen Sault and son Joshua Turla are pictured hitting the trails at Shepherd’s Bush FOOT PAIN/KNEE PAIN Conservation Area last week. Ms. Sault is • Custom Orthotics hard at work planning challenges for the WE ARE STILL upcoming month-long Cycle Aurora event • Custom Knee Braces that will not only get people up and moving, OPEN • Ankle Braces but connecting with their community as well. as an essential medical service; I am here to help For more, see Page 15. you! All Covid safety measures are in place FAST TURNAROUND Auroran photo by Brock Weir in 3 days if needed. York Foot Orthotics and Bracing 14 Wellington Street East, Suite 4, Aurora 905-841-3838 ⎜ [email protected] Residents born in 2003 or earlier MUSIC now eligible to book vaccine LESSONS in person and online! all adults across the Province gained will continue to make appointments Ask about our complimentary 46th Auroran eligibility, lifting previous restrictions available as vaccine supply is GROUP LESSONS lost to virus around this demographic to hotspot confirmed. In addition, the Province areas. continues to work with public health 905.900.0094 [email protected] BY BROCK WEIR The Ontario government units, First Nations, Inuit and EDITOR LOCAL JOURNALISM announced late last month that all Metis communities and Boards of INITIATIVE REPORTER residents 18+ would be eligible to Education to ensure youth in Ontario –Residents born in 2003 or earlier book their shots by May 24, but an between 12 and 17 years of age will are now eligible to book their first early delivery of 2.2 million vaccine be eligible to book an appointment doses of COVID-19 vaccines. doses expected this week allowed through the Provincial Booking The Province announced changes these goal posts to be moved closer. System beginning the week of May to Ontario’s vaccine rollout plan on “Ontario is experiencing very 31, 2021 to receive their first dose Monday, bringing forward the date positive trends in vaccine demand,” of the Pfizer vaccine. We are also for 18+ eligibility by nearly a week. said the Province on Monday. “The working to encourage eligible family As of 8 a.m. on Tuesday, May 18, Province and public health units Continued on page 17 TikTok @joeandvalsnofrills Facebook @joeandvalsnofrills Instagram: joeandvalsnofrills Ward system moves forward 14800 Yonge Street, Aurora ...on the north west corner of Yonge & Murray following appeal’s “ Opening Doors To Your Dreams” rejection Monica Stohr BY BROCK WEIR Sales Representative EDITOR LOCAL JOURNALISM Helping residents for 32 years INITIATIVE REPORTER A final hurdle in Aurora adopting Direct: 416-618-1714 a ward system in time for next year’s www.monicastohr.com A SHOT OF HOPE – Pharmacist Thomas Huang gives a shot of COVID-19 vaccine to Cheryl municipal election was cleared last week *As per gross closed commissions 2019 from Royal LePage Services Corp. Boston at Wellness Clinical Pharmacy. Their shop recently opened on Yonge Street near Aurora with a resident-led appeal being rejected Heights, the business owners are taking a different approach to health care in these challenging by Ontario’s Local Planning Appeals times. For more, see Page 14. Auroran photo by Brock Weir 2017-2019 Continued on page 2 BACKS TO RAVINE! ‘SHOWSTOPPER’ NEWMARKET RIVERWALK COMMONS! KING CITY 1/2 ACRE aurora’s RENO AURORA! REBUILT ‘CHIC’ MASTERPIECE! BUNGALOW BEAUTY & POOL top sales producer* *Based on IMS Statistics, Aurora Offices lenard lind, broker of record 905-841-0000 It’s a beauty! ‘Privacy’ and more! Demand street loaded Newmarket Riverwalk Commons! Rebuilt ‘Chic’ Masterpiece! 3374 SF magnificent custom-built stone & brick with extras and upgrades! Gourmet kitchen with custom Wow! It’s a beauty! Complete rebuild & finished on all 3 levels! bungalow on picturesque, prof. landscaped lot with total [email protected] cabinetry and quartz counters. 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Prof. finished open concept lower level! potential kitchen area!1 Lake, Downtown Main Street’s Enchanting backyard oasis! 15105 Yonge Street, suite 100, aurora, on l4g 1m3 $1,529,900 $1,695,000 $2,999,888 (2 Blocks south of Wellington on the East Side) attractions! Page 2 THE AURORAN, Thursday, May 20, 2021 Ward system moves forward following appeal’s rejection From page 1 new system, eligible voters will vote for a Tribunal (LPAT). mayor to represent the entire community LPAT dismissed the appeal on while voting for just one Council member Thursday, May 13, and, in doing so, to represent their specific neighbourhood. reaffirmed the six-ward model approved Ward 1 will be bordered by Bathurst by Council last summer. Street in the west, Newmarket in the Council adopted the six-ward model on north, the GO Train line in the east, and a vote of 4 – 3 last June, with Councillors by both Orchard Heights Boulevard and Wendy Gaertner, John Gallo and Rachel Wellington Street in the south. Gilliland voting against it. Lawmakers Ward 2 will be bordered by Orchard who voted in favour of the six-ward model Heights in the north, Yonge Street in the said following this path would lead to more east, Kennedy Street West in the south, effective representation around the table, and Bathurst in the north. while opponents said they did not yet feel Ward 3 will use Kennedy Street West as the public had expressed a buy-in to ditch its northern boundary, Yonge as its eastern the current model. edge, the train tracks in the south, and In the 2018 Municipal Election, the Bathurst to the west. Town voted “at large”, meaning the The rail line will serve as the western entire community voted on a Mayor and boundary for Ward 4, the largest ward six Council members to represent the by area, with Bloomington Road as interests of the Town as a whole. In the its southern limit, Highway 404 as the so much worry... so much time... The six-ward model adopted last year by Aurora Council ahead of the 2022 Municipal Election was so much to do! re-affirmed by LPAT last week following a citizen-led appeal. Contributed photo • Care at home and in other residential settings eastern boundary, and Wellington Street will be divided into six wards. The LPAT • Live in/out: 3-24 hours care and 24/7 care East in the north. decision noted that, ‘the Tribunal finds • RN supervised • Chronic disease care: Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, Ward 5 will use Wellington as its that the process was fair, reasonable and Dementia, Diabetes, Cancer Care, etc. southern edge, coming up Mavrinac transparent, and included a consideration • Personal care: hygiene, bathing, and dressing Boulevard in the east, over to St. John’s of all options, including retention of the • Meal planning and preparation Sideroad in the north and the GO tracks current at-large system. The Tribunal • Light housekeeping; laundry in the west. further finds that the Town study included • Escorting to appointments; shopping • Joyful companionship…and so much more The sixth and final ward will be public consultation and that input received bordered by Wellington and the 404 on the both for and against the change to a ward- south and east, the Newmarket boundary based system was considered.’” to the north, and Mavrinac and Bayview Among the residents who expressed Contact Brian Porter, Director, for advice and care at 416.483.0070(office) and Avenue on the west. disagreement with adopting a ward model, 905.758.2486(cell). “The Town undertook an Electoral however, was the fact that in the public :Helen Huang System Review beginning in 2019 to consultation process, foregoing wards and :416.880.6889 [email protected] determine appropriate ward boundaries,” retaining status quo was not included in 2019 years of the best care for seniors said the Town in a statement last week. “For survey options. the 2022 Municipal Election, the Town For more, visit aurora.ca/wards. THE AURORAN, Thursday, May 20, 2021 Page 3 Southlake’s Virtual Run raises nearly $180,000 for local hospital BY BROCK WEIR “It felt like you were building towards EDITOR LOCAL JOURNALISM something,” adds SRHCF President and INITIATIVE REPORTER CEO Jennifer Klotz-Ritter.