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EMPLOyMENT OPPORTUNITIES REMINDER The Town of Aurora is now accepting applications for the following positions: Pet Bylaw Curator The next municipal election in The Town of Aurora will be Application deadline is Wednesday, September 10 Pet owners are reminded that dogs and cats held on Monday, October 27. Nominations are open until are prohibited from running at large within the Friday, September 12 at 2 p.m. Forms can be viewed and Part-Time Skate Patroller(s) downloaded online at www.aurora.ca/vote2014 Application deadline is Friday, September 12 geographical boundaries of The Town of Aurora. A dog or cat is deemed to be running at large Residents are encouraged to educate themselves on the For more information, please visit when the dog or cat is found in any other election process and the candidates running for office. www.aurora.ca/employment place, other than the lands or premises of Have your voice heard on election day and vote! the owner or person keeping such dog or cat.

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New roof decking is installed Election Day Employment Heating, venting and air conditioning work is ongoing Lower floor offices are complete The Town of Aurora is recruiting Pool viewing wall is installed for a variety of customer New running track concrete floors are complete service-focused, temporary Photos of construction progress are shown below. election workers to assist with the October 27 municipal election. Applicant requirements include: • 18 years of age or older; • Legally entitled to work in Canada; • Applicants cannot be a candidate or the spouse, sibling, parent or child, or grandparent or grandchild of a candidate running in the October 27 election; • Customer service and/or election official experience preferred; • Fluent in English (knowledge of other languages an asset); • Access to reliable transportation; Stay tuned here for monthly project • Ability to work well both independently and as a team; progress updates. and Call 905-727-3123 or visit our website • Available to attend a two-hour mandatory training www.aurora.ca/NewAFLC for additional session, up to two weeks prior to the election. information. To apply, please complete the online application form available at www.aurora.ca/electionsemployment or at Aurora Town Hall, 100 John West Way. The application deadline is Monday, September 15 at 9 a.m. Try one of our great fitness classes

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From the AMHA to Ironman, Aurora Briefly native achieves ultimate goal RESTORATION BEGINS ON SOUTH END PROPERTY By Brock Weir something that was foreign and would require quite a bit of work, and that is what drove the ambition.” Efforts to reverse any effects of illegal Jesse Micak has covered a lot of ground since he first laced up Another factor in driving this ambition happened two years filling on a Yonge Street property in and hit the ice, participating in local hockey, followed by baseball, ago when he took part in the Ride to Conquer Cancer, the 100 Aurora’s south end were due to begin and eventually soccer as part of the Cardinal Carter Team. km ride from Toronto to Niagara Falls, along with his father this week, under the supervision of the Last month, as he crossed the finish line, the Aurora native and siblings. Cancer is something that has touched his family, Town of Aurora. Located near the foot of Industrial Parkway South, the property earned the right to call himself “Ironman” after successfully like so many other families that take part, and their success in came under close scrutiny last year when completing the Ironman North American Championship in that fundraiser gave him another shot of confidence that if he property owners received notices of several Mont-Tremblant, Quebec. trained properly he would be able to put all the pieces together by-law violations, both from the Town and The Ironman is not mere child’s play – it is a full triathlon and ultimately achieve that Ironman goal. the Region of York, from illegal filling and consisting of a 3.8 km swim, a 180 km bike ride, and a full While his parents and siblings were supportive of the ultimate tree removal. According to a statement marathon of 42.2 km. Crossing the finish line 12 hours and six goal, he found the most invaluable support from his wife. While released by the Town last week, the property minutes after starting with over 2,500 competitors from across he says he was not “built like an endurance athlete” at the time, owner is working with the Town “to ensure remediation of the site conforms” with the globe, Mr. Micak set his goal just over a year ago, with very they decided that while it would take a lot of hard work and existing bylaws and the fill is removed. The little triathlon experience under his belt. dedication, particularly on evenings and weekends, and it was Region is also working with those involved He hired a coach, worked out over the past year, got his feet something they could work towards together. on tree replacement. wet in some Regional races across Southern Ontario, and focused “I missed a lot of 30th birthday parties, I missed a lot of pre- on his singular goal for Mont- wedding parties, a lot of WITNESSES SOUGHT AFTER Tremblant. weekends up at the cottage MOTORCYCLE CRASH “The ultimate goal was with families, but I had her to finish and do the best I Ironman Jesse Mi- support all along the way and York Regional Police are asking witnesses could,” he says. “For me, it that was very meaningful,” he to come forward following a serious cak, seen here at motorcycle crash in Aurora last week. On is very much learning a new Mont-Tremblant says. sport at the age of 29. Most As he crossed the finish line the afternoon of Wednesday, August 2, York this summer, got Regional Police responded to the scene of of the sports I do play today at around 775 out of 2,500, his his start on home a collision at 2.52 p.m. at Bathurst Street are those I played at a very wife was there, along with his and Aurora Heights. The driver of the young age for youth sports, ice. parents, cheering him on from motorcycle, a 26-year-old Newmarket man, so it was somewhat new the sidelines. As it began to was transported to hospital with serious, learning another sport at this Submitted photo sink in with each individual but non-life-threatening injuries. The stage, primarily swimming. step that he was that much driver of the Mercedes, a 59-year-old man closer to his ultimate goal, he from Aurora was not injured. Anyone with Swimming was a discipline information is asked to contact the YRP’s that required the most work says he was just trying to take Collision Investigation Unit at 1-866-87-5423 over the past year. it all in. x7704, or anonymously at 1-800-222-TIPS. “It was really unknown to me how I would do in the swimming “It was such a positive atmosphere, and the support, noise The investigation is ongoing and no charges portion. I figured I would be out in the water for two hours, maybe and energy just taking place within the walls at Mont-Tremblant have been laid so far. for two-and-a-half, and that was the real x-factor in trying to was just overwhelming me,” he says. “I was eager and excited to determine what my overall time would be. I finished the swim in see [my family] and to share that moment an hour-twenty, but I made up a lot of time on the bike and run.” with them. [The greatest memory] will be Building up to this significant achievement this summer the enjoyment and relief of committing was a “natural progression”, he says. He was active in sports to a goal and completing it. That is one from a very early age including Aurora Minor Hockey, various of the great things about triathlon. It is baseball teams, playing soccer for Cardinal Carter Catholic High a sport growing across the country and COMFORT FOR LIFE School, and rising through the ranks during his academic career. you see such a wide range of age groups Eventually, however, he hit the “corporate world” and there he participating. It’s a competition against says he found a “void in sports.” yourself to do the best you can for yourself. “As a teenager, I was used to competing in sports and getting I set a goal, I completed it, irrespective that back and that focus, working towards improving something of time. That didn’t matter for me. It was Get Cool. 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I am writing in response to the above opinion piece written by newly elected MPP Chris Ballard and must respond. I created the YRABC (York Region Anti-Bullying Coalition) in 2009 and while I no longer reside in York Region, I am extremely connected to that community as well as at the provincial and national levels. I was acquainted with Ms. Vlassis and Ms. Anderson - they approached me four years ago asking if they could help with my organization. In his opinion piece MPP Ballard boasts about all the good work the Liberal government has done on the issue of safe schools. I disagree. On Monday, July 21, 2014 PC MPP Mr. Jeff Yurek questioned the Minister of Education about what process the Ministry follows to ensure school boards comply with anti-bullying legislation, how the Ministry keeps school administrators accountable, and the process having failed in his riding. The Hon. Liz Sandals replied with “not every incident turns out to be managed 100% perfectly.” In fact, not every incident is managed at all. This is a response that is not acceptable to me or any other Ontario taxpayer whose child has been let down by their education system. That type of remark is disrespectful to all young people who have suffered as a result of non-proactive administrators and other adults within the educational institution. The non-compliance that Mr. Yurek speaks of is as a result of Ministry PPM’s (Policy Program Memo) that contradict existing legislation. The results from two separate Freedom of Information Requests I received from the Toronto and York Region School Boards clearly indicate the true lack of attention the issue of bullying is being given. PPM’s do not equate to statute law. They are guidelines at best with no requirement to report back to the Ministry thereby making PPM’s redundant. The Minister of Education also mentioned that parents should be “contacting their local trustee, because it is, in To submit a letter to the editor, please send your email to fact, the local trustees who are accountable for ensuring that [email protected]. safe school legislation is put into place.” Parents actually Deadline for submissions is Sunday at 1 p.m. do contact their elected school board trustees and they are repeatedly met with “it’s a governance issue and go back to your Principal as they have the ultimate say.” There is a huge disconnect as to what the Liberal government A TIFF and Quibble says is happening and what actually takes place. Trustees So, how many of you joined cart they were eagerly snapped up have no power or authority. Since the Ministry changed their me Sunday morning, collectively by another, I was left with just two governance model from Site Based Management to the Carver asking yourself, “Isn’t the definition of my first choices and a raft of also- model the school system is in disarray. of insanity doing something over rans. At the end of the day the issue of bullying within Ontario and over again and expecting a As I fumed and stewed at the schools remains chronic and the manner in which some different result?” results on what was an otherwise situations are dealt with is nothing more than shameful with Seeing – in real time, no less – promising Sunday morning, I had our children paying the physical and emotional price. that I was in line (well, online) with to question why I and countless The PC party failed to vote in favour of Bill 13, the Accepting over 5,000 people with a singular others from Ontario, Canada, and Schools Act because it was not a comprehensive anti-bullying purpose, I’m sure some of you were the world, put ourselves through piece of legislation. Very little has changed for the York Region in the same boat. BROCK’S this annual nightmare. The love of Anti-Bullying Coalition, and this is regardless of where I Sunday, August 31, was film is one thing, but this agony is reside. We continue to receive the desperate phone calls and BANTER single ticket day for the Toronto Brock Weir another thing all together. Maybe emails describing situations that were not “managed 100%” International Film Festival (TIFF), the anguish is part of the TIFF and the long-term consequences of this. a day which seems to, year in and year out, always tradition. Maybe many of us are too cheap to fork I have been working with Carol Todd (mother of Amanda be a day which will live in infamy. Until the next over the hefty fees for specific membership levels Todd). October 10th is World Mental Health Day. I challenge year, of course, when those of us who fancy in order to jump the queue. MPP Chris Ballard to get Aurora and Newmarket to light up ourselves armchair film buffs optimistically put Whatever the reason, it seemed like I was in in purple. on our blinders and log on hoping that this will be good company – and if any of you were members the one year that Single Ticket Day does not turn of that same sorry group on Sunday, I sincerely Karen Sebben into a hellish free-for-all better suited to TIFF’s hope you fared much better than I did! And see you Founder, YRABC Midnight Madness Series. there. This year, I was primed and ready to go. I Heat rising in political finalised my ticket wish list the night before, WHO HAS TIME FOR TIFF ANYWAY? had a decent schedule worked out that would Maybe doing battle with your overlords at the “squabble”? accommodate Aurora’s busy September season of Toronto International Film Festival – and losing Ribfest, Hoedown, and any variety of local events spectacularly – was somewhat of a blessing in (Re: “Mayor’s rebuttal doesn’t wash with Kean”, the last days of summer bring to our fair Town, disguise. After all this is Aurora in September. August 28, 2014) and was prepared to do battle. Who really has time for that? As much as Toronto This year, as in every other year, I had all my web will be the centre of the entertainment universe When the Editor’s heading above Mr. Kean’s letter: browsers primed, just in case of emergencies or a for two weeks beginning Thursday, this season “Mayor’s rebuttal doesn’t wash with Kean” reaches the technical glitch, and then awaited the appointed brings no shortage of things to do that just happen stage of the hot air cycle, it will properly reflect this reader’s hour. When the clock struck 9 a.m., Firefox, Google to coincide with the Festival. perspective of the squabble between Mr. Dawe and Mr. Kean. Chrome, and Internet Explorer were all deployed First up, of course, is this weekend’s annual at essentially the same time to secure a place in Ribfest, which kicks off this Friday at Machell Alex Vander Veen the virtual lineup. The Firefox browser was the Park. Building on last year’s success, they are Aurora ultimate winner, getting in there with just 340 certainly doing things right with one heck of a people ahead of me in line, while the other two headliner this Friday night in the form of Glass Time to beautify water brought up the rear with 1,200 and 3,100 people Tiger. Ordinarily, it would be fun for the whole respectively. family, but since Age of Majority kicks in at 8 p.m., management area in west Once settled into the line, it was time to play the it will still be fun but the kiddies will have to find waiting game. The waiting game, however, passed their own fun elsewhere. remarkably fast, lulling me into a fault sense of Not content to let Friday be the star attraction Aurora optimism. Once the floodgates opened, it was then at Ribfest, Platinum Blonde heads to the stage on The Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority, along time to dash around, hunt the desired screenings, Saturday for another show beginning at 9 p.m. It with municipalities, have built a water management area in secure your tickets, and then fork over your will certainly be a Ribfest to remember, made all Aurora at Bathurst Street and McClelland Way. wincing Visa. the more special by a host of local talent taking If anyone has been past the one in Richmond Hill at So far so good. Some of the screenings I wanted part in the Hoedown Showdown Semifinals, as well Bathurst and Mill, I think they would agree it is a most were already sold out, but my Plan Bs seemed to as representatives from local media outlets taking beautiful sight, with public pathways, gazebos, etc. be working out all right. With about a 60 per cent part in the second annual PRESSure Challenge I can picture this on a smaller scale at the one in Aurora. success rate in my basket, I gingerly clicked to Rib Eating Contest. check out, thinking that was a relatively painless After losing the challenge to the bottomless pits Bill Hack process. How wrong I was. at The Banner (I say that with love, dear readers), Aurora Within seconds of clicking the “checkout” those of us who took on the challenge last year, button, disaster struck. Error messages were myself included, are happy to pass The Auroran’s THE AURORAN popping out of places they truly had no business baton to General Manager Bob Ince and Sports Aurora’s Community Newspaper being in the first place. Hitting the back button Reporter Jake Courtepatte to settle the score on The Auroran Newspaper Company Ltd. 15213 Yonge Street, Suite 8 Aurora, ON, L4G 1L8 and clicking checkout again, the error messages Friday evening. Good luck, guys! Founder kept popping up again, occasionally leaving a For the foodie in us, we can head west to King for Ron Wallace Publisher Emeritus tantalizing window in which one can get a glimmer Rosemary Schumaker the annual Feast of the Fields festival, to sample of hope that something positive was happening and find inspiration from everything organic Editor General Manager Production Manager and then… farms from across Ontario have to offer, and then Brock Weir Bob Ince Cynthia Proctor [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] About an hour later, error messages were there will be a few days of longed-for recovery

Advertising Classifieds Photography still coming up. Also accumulating: Twitter time. Diane Buchanan 905-727-3300 ex.102 David Falconer messages from people around the world who were The fun continues on Friday, September 12, [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] experiencing the same frustration, perhaps an with the 10 finalists from the Hoedown Showdown Advertising Motoring ReSale Zach Shoub Heather Erwin Joel Gillespie alternative viewpoint to the uniting power of film. taking over the massive tent being erected on [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] As the clock continued to tick, and the errors Wellington Street ahead of next Saturday’s

Karin Rossi, Vice President Sales, Marketing, Business Development mounted, organizers of TIFF added insult to Hoedown to play in front of what is hoped to be [email protected] • 416.518.0648 injury by forcing you to watch the tickets you a large hometown crowd, before being ultimately thought you had secured one by one get slashed crowned the Showdown winner by event headliner Main number 905-727-3300 • Fax number 905-727-2620 out of your shopping cart as your time limit on Tim Hicks. Subscriptions available within Canada and U.S. email: [email protected] each screening expired. Nearly every time one The ultimate winner will have a chance to hit that pesky “Back” button, there was one less perform at the main event, the annual Wild, Editorial policy Opinions expressed by columnists, contributors and letter writers are not necessarily those of The reason to do battle, until, at the end, I was left with Wild West Hoedown, performing alongside the Auroran. Letters must include name and phone number, although number will not be published, and a completely empty cart. headliner Lonestar. be limited to 600 words. Letters may be edited or refused. All contents protected by copyright. Starting back at square one, trying to rebuild So, if you were, like me, one of the unfortunate Advertising policy what was once a glorious testament to my own people who struck out continually on Sunday, isn’t Publisher is not liable for slight changes or typographical errors that do not lessen the value of an ad- bizarre taste in cinema, a futile effort given that vertisement. Disputes must be brought to the attention of the publisher prior to the following edition. it lucky we have so many opportunities to make up as soon as each ticket vanished from my shopping for it in our own back yard? THE AURORAN, Thursday, September 4 , 2014 Page 5 NEW AURORAN POLL Do you plan on attending the Wild, Wild West Hoedown next Saturday, September 13?

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Previous Poll Results Do you support Aurora’s newly approved Joint Operations Centre? A) Yes B) No C) Unsure YES NO UNSURE (Above Left) Aurora was well protected on Thursday night as Captain America, Spiderman, a couple of Supergirls and Disney Princesses joined forces at the End of Summer Superhero Party (and screening of Spiderman) hosted by the Town of Aurora at Norm Weller Park. (Right) Spiderman was joined by Xavier, who brought along a cuddly sidekick. Auroran photos by David Falconer RESULTS SEPTEMBER 2, 2014 63% 32% 5%

Ontario’s Ring of Fire – economic benefits far reaching

One of the most exciting economic development structure in place to allow for partners to determine opportunities we have in Ontario is the mineral rich their participation in the corporation. This includes Ring of Fire, located about 1,000 kilometers north- working with key partners including First Nations, west of Newmarket-Aurora, in northern Ontario. industry, communities, and the federal government, POLITICS Experts put the mineral potential of the area at to formalize partnerships through the corporation, AS USUAL upwards of $60 billion. It includes the largest known and overseeing an economic and technical feasibility Alison Collins-Mrakas deposit of chromite in North America. Chromite is a report on transportation infrastructure. key ingredient in stainless steel. The area also holds The corporation will advise on crucial the potential for significant production of nickel, View infrastructure investment decisions, including how to Rodents of copper and platinum. from best utilize Ontario’s $1 billion dollar commitment to Unusual Size A study by the Ontario Chamber of Commerce Ring of Fire infrastructure. reports Ontario’s Ring of Fire has the potential to Queen’s I’m pleased to see strong involvement of First Nation Many people enter the political realm generate up to $9.4 billion in Gross Domestic Product; communities in moving the project ahead. Back in only to exit it a short while later disgusted generate up to $6.2 billion for Ontario’s mining PChrisa Ballard,rk MPP March, the Province of Ontario and Matawa-member by what they see, experience or worse, by industry; sustain up to 5,500 full-time jobs annually; Newmarket-Aurora First Nations took a major step forward by reaching an what they endure. and generate nearly $2 billion in government revenue agreement that will ensure First Nation communities Hopes for “making a difference” or for federal, provincial and municipal coffers. benefit from the proposed Ring of Fire development. “positive change” are inevitably replaced And that’s just in the first 10 years. The regional framework agreement is a first step in a historic, by feelings of despair and desolation at the In the first 32 years of its development, the Ring of Fire will community-based negotiation process that began at the request reality of how the political world actually “generate more than $25 billion in economic activity across of Matawa-member First Nations. works. Much like the practice of law isn’t numerous sectors in Ontario, of which mining is just one,” the The agreement ensures First Nations and Ontario can work like Boston Legal, and police work isn’t Chamber report says. together to advance Ring of Fire opportunities, including like Law and Order, the practice of politics Other beneficiaries of the development of the Ring of Fire regional long-term environmental monitoring and enhanced is not like the West Wing. Certainly there include $2.7 billion in revenues for the financial services sector; participation in environmental assessment processes, resource are elements of it that are familiar, but the $1.2 billion for the wholesale and retail trade sectors; $600 million revenue sharing, economic supports, and regional and day to day “work” of politics is nothing for the manufacturing sector; and $500 million for the utilities community infrastructure. like what one would expect. It’s not what’s sector, the report concludes. “This framework demonstrates that our First Nations are “seen on TV.” The Chamber says the Ring of Fire will also generate an open for development that is sustainable and respects our lands,” Personally, I found the decision-making estimated $6.7 billion in government tax revenues over the first said Chief Sonny Gagnon of Aroland First Nation, one of nine process to be the most frustrating. Either it 32 years of its development, “providing compelling incentive for signatories to the agreement. proceeded at positively glacial speed with governments to invest in this economic opportunity.” Development in the Ring of Fire is subject to all necessary multiple reports and meetings to decide Although 1,000 kilometers away, the Greater Toronto Area environmental assessment and regulatory process, and (or not) on one item or, when a decision are expected to benefit through our consulting, manufacturing, fulfillment of the Crown’s duty to consult, according to the actually was made, it was often based financial and retail sectors. Ministry of Northern Development and Mines. more on emotion than on any discernible The Ring of Fire is a significant opportunity to help build a As it establishes the Ring of Fire Infrastructure Development facts that I could see. stronger Ontario economy – one that benefits First Nations, Corporation, the province will continue discussions with the In my humble opinion, much of what northern residents and those of us in southern Ontario. Matawa-member First Nations through a regional framework passes as governance is based almost It’s why the government has committed $1 billion for the agreement that helps to ensure these First Nations communities entirely on agenda-driven as opposed to Ring of Fire infrastructure development. Located a little over actively participate in, and benefit from, Ring of Fire evidence-based decision making. 500 kilometers from Thunder Bay, the area is in a remote part of developments. Affecting real and positive change – at northern Ontario, without roads, trains or airports. The funding And as the Chamber of Commerce report outlines, the benefits any level of government – can be difficult. will allow the newly established Ring of Fire Infrastructure will be far-reaching and will not only include First Nation And for those that got into it for precisely Development Corporation to secure the necessary infrastructure members, but everyone in Ontario and Canada. that reason, the reality can be very investments, estimated to be over $2 billion. Ontario has a proud and important history of mining – it has disheartening. With headquarters to be located in Thunder Bay, the Ring of helped build our province and our country. The Ring of Fire is The only part of politics that is Fire Infrastructure Development Corporation will work to bring poised to be the next significant chapter in that history. like what’s portrayed on TV? It’s the First Nations and the public and private sectors together to create nastiness. Regardless of the office sought partnerships and facilitate investment decisions regarding Contact MPP Chris Ballard at his Community Office: (905) 750- – Councillor to MP – all candidates will transportation infrastructure. 0019, or by email: [email protected]. Chris’ office is likely face at least one Rodent of Unusual The not-for-profit corporation has an interim board of four located in Suite 201, 14845 Yonge St., Aurora L4G 6H8. Office hours Size: that particular breed of vermin that senior Ontario public servants. The board will put the necessary are 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., Monday to Friday. seeks to gnaw away at candidates until they give up, bloodied and defeated. We all say that we want honest, hard working people to represent our best interests in Ottawa, at Queen’s Park and “I’m starting to get ready for the fall season in my they look great, they’ll save you big bucks in the at the council table. So why then, when home. What are some things to consider?” long run on your hydro bills. If changing out your they do put their names forward either For many of us, autumn is the season for change. windows is not an option, consider new window for a first time or as a veteran seeking to The summer is over, the kids are back to school and treatments. Your window treatment should act as serve again, do we sit back like Romans we’re buckling back down at work. a frame for the view out your window. in the coliseum and watch as they are fed There are lots of ways to celebrate this terrific Cool Weather Entertaining - Whether we to the Lions? season in your home but it’s important to remember want to admit or not, the weather is changing. I think a large part of it is apathy. Many that fall is about more than just changing your home’s ASK THE We’re transitioning from outdoor entertaining – don’t care enough about the process itself, colour palette and getting ready for the holidays. Our DESIGNER backyard barbecues, beers, coolers and sunshine let alone those that are engaged in it. So priorities change this season shifting from fun and JEAN BISNAIRE to cozy dinners, red wine, baguettes, and trips to it’s not surprising that we make barely relaxation to studying and more stringent routines. the local harvest market. The two biggest seasons a whisper when folks are torn to shreds Here are some important things to consider when Updating for entertaining are fast approaching so get ahead before our very eyes. planning your fall updates/changes: For Fall of the game and start thinking about these things There’s also the sense that “this is Quality Downtime - A media room is a now. You may want to spruce up the common areas just how things are”. “Politics is a nasty surprisingly important gathering spot in the fall. So many in time for the arrival of your guests. Here are the top three business” or a “blood sport”. The good wonderful TV shows start their new seasons at this time of trends we’re seeing for fall decorating this season: ones that happen to get spat out in the year, and let’s not forget about sports! People are excited about Gold and Bronze- Bronze and gold tones add warmth to any process are just collateral damage. They basketball and hockey games that air in the fall making this space, making it feel cozier. This is the time of year that people are seen as not tough enough to do the job the perfect season to update your family room. Now is the time start nesting, so consider adding warmer toned metals in your anyway. to upgrade your sofa or invest in that ottoman you’ve been accessories and lighting or a frame over the mantle. But, who says that one has to be as thinking about to make sure that your space is as inviting and Layering – Add depth to your space by layering fabrics, tough as a gladiator just to seek public comfortable as it can be! colours and textures. Jewel tones are hot right now- try office? Great warriors don’t make great Work Space - With school back in full swing you’ll want peacock blue, fuchsia or indigo. This is an easy and affordable legislators. If they did, then every country to be sure that your kids have a quiet and organized place to way to update a room. Toss in some new cushions or add a would be run by a military junta. do their homework. Creating a separate area designed just chunky throw to your sofa. Mix patterns, materials and sizes Many a good man or woman has been for this task is a smart move. Create a nook in the kitchen or for a designer look. For more tips on how to get this look, check beaten down by the process. I can think of your kids’ rooms or allow for some room in the office so that out our “fearless mixing” article on our website. quite a few and from every political party. students have a distinct zone to sit down and focus on what Easy Accessory Update- This year’s must-have accessory Joe Clark. Kim Campbell. Stephane Dion. matters most. has been the hurricane vase and its cousin, the apothecary Ed Broadbent. Unfairly or not, just some Morning Rush - Make the effort to create an organized jars/vases. In summer we saw flowers, citrus fruits and herbs names that come to mind when I think of mudroom or foyer. There are tons of multi-purpose pieces of displayed in these gorgeous glass pieces. Change things up those that were chewed up by the machine. furniture out there that are both design savvy and functional. for fall by using cranberries, baby pumpkins, or pears. River They are the Tall Poppies, the folks Look for storage benches to stash scarves and backpacks in. stones or mossy plants add a hint of seasonal texture too! with something real to offer that are cut Find a console with cupboard doors to keep umbrellas and down just because of it. briefcases hidden, or create cubbies to keep shoes organized. Feel free to send me your comments or questions to Over the next 12 months or so, we This will definitely help make things easier when you’re [email protected] are going to be faced with a barrage of trying to get your kids off to school in the morning and getting nichedecor.ca messaging about candidates for both yourself off to work. It will also keep your front entrance Stay Connected with Us! local office (Municipal election in October [email protected] looking tidy and inviting. 2014) and Federal office (federal election Enjoy the View - Living in Canada, fall is the most gorgeous Nichedecor in October 2015). At the risk of sounding time of year! We get to see the leaves turn so many beautiful like Pollyanna, I hope that we can all put colours. The days are still sunny and bright and there always Nichedecor down our scythes for a moment, and let seems to be a squirrel or chipmunk running across the lawn the Tall Poppies grow. making this is a great time to update your windows and window Niche_Decor Until next week, stay informed, stay treatments. If you live in an older home, consider replacing involved because this is – after all – Our @nicheunionville your windows with newer, energy-efficient ones. Not only will Town. Page 6 THE AURORAN, Thursday, September 4, 2014 Ridge Road closure expected to come sooner than residents anticipated By Brock Weir It was true when it was approved back down and speed up just to get out of engineering and, optimistically, their by Council in July that the new road my driveway, even with all-wheel drive. service work by the end of 2015, with the Residents on Aurora’s Ridge Road were connecting to Ridge Road would be These people are just gaining enough 29 homes completed “towards the end of left seeing red recently after they were told barricaded from access until work on the speed to get up there and, boom, you 2016.” a plan to limit Yonge Street access to their Yonge Street transit lane was complete, have to turn in here. I am not sure why “At that point, we would remove the street was coming sooner than originally but the Region since “clarified” its they have allowed this road. It should be barricade, that access would remain open, envisioned. position, he added. further to the east. This is just a bad place and we would then restrict Yonge and Over the past year, the Town of Aurora, “With the original position of the to be.” Ridge Road,” said Mr. Ramunno. Region of York, and residents on the Region, that would have put [restricting From Mr. Ramunno’s perspective, south-end street have been working to access] off a number of years depending however, these residents’ complaints can come up with a workable solution to on the timing of [transit],” he said. “At this only go so far. The Region’s position, he objections raised from neighbours over point, once the subdivision is complete, said, is “pretty clear” but he will voice an incoming subdivision. The plan calls our recommendation to implement the Ridge Road’s concerns to the Regional E-ELEC for nearly 30 homes to be built, along with Region’s connection would be to have that Planners. R T an access street connecting Ridge Road full connection made when the 29 homes “There are some residents that and the new neighbourhood. are constructed. That way, Ridge Road don’t have an issue with it, some of While this new road will connect the residents and the new residents use the whom would rather see the road closed two neighbourhoods, it will also provide new road, have use of the new intersection altogether, some of whom would rather an “out” for those living on Ridge Road at Yonge Street, which should also be see it restricted so they can use it. There who will see access to their own street signalized, and that is a better access are different opinions, but it is just a from Yonge significantly limited to a point onto Yonge Street.” question about timing, that it could be right-in right-out turn once the Region’s Ridge Road neighbours, however, happening in three years, as opposed to plan for a transit corridor down the centre bristled at the latest development. six or seven.” ABEL F of Yonge Street is realised in a decade. A “We agreed to the trigger being the new Aurora anticipates development O I L fully signalized new intersection at Yonge bus lane,” said one resident objecting to of the subdivision to get underway in R N C Street with the new subdivision would the trigger happening much sooner than earnest in the next year, completing their C O U then be Ridge Road’s primary access to they anticipated. “The Region has done a complete Aurora’s busiest traffic artery. TOWN OF AURORA When Council approved the plan this switch on us,” added another. PUBLIC NOTICE summer, that was the timeline neighbours For other Ridge Road residents, access said they had come to expect, but things was not the only sticking point. Their changed significantly following further concerns also stemmed from where this meetings with Regional planners. connection road is slated to be built, near “Materially, not much has changed the crest of a hill which already presents aside from the timing of the connection difficulties for the neighbourhood, they between the new subdivision and Ridge said. NOTICE OF COMPLETE APPLICATION AND PUBLIC PLANNING MEETING Road,” said Marco Ramunno, Aurora’s “Why is it that this road still has to be Director of Planning, following a public in the worst part of the hill?” questioned Aurora Town Council will hold a public meeting on Wednesday, September 24, 2014 at 7 p.m. at meeting with neighbours last month. one neighbour. “For years, we have had to Aurora Town Hall, Council Chambers, to consider the following planning application. A Complete Application by Chafam Premiere Inc./Sterne Motors Ltd., file number D14-06-14, has been submitted to Amend the Zoning By-law on the property municipally known as 300 Earl Stewart Drive, located west of Bayview Avenue, with frontage on St. John’s Sideroad, Earl Stewart Drive and Isaacson Crescent. APPLICATION: The Owner has submitted an application for an amendment to Zoning By-law 2213-78 to amend the current Industrial Commercial “C5-6” Exception Zone to also allow a “Motor Vehicle Sales Establishment” as a permitted use on the subject lands. There are or are no other known applications currently filed with The Town of Aurora on the subject lands at this time. PROPERTY: 300 Earl Stewart Drive LEGAL DESCRIPTION: Lots 5-7, Plan 65M-2873 APPLICANT: Sterne Motors Inc. FILE NUMBERS: D14-06-14 Helen Dawn, seen here washing up at the last Martha’s Table meal in June, coor- CONTACT: Additional information may be obtained from Jeff Healey of the Planning dinates the program at St. Andrew’s. Auroran photo by Brock Weir & Development Services department at 905-727-3123 ext. 4349. Comments may also be mailed to the Planning & Development Services department at the same address, faxed to 905-726-4736 or emailed to [email protected] Laughter and friendship are hallmarks prior to the meeting. Please quote the file name and number. of Table’s success: coordinator Mental Health Association, or wherever From page 1 we feel there is a need or could help our people,” she says. “In our last full year from and then the next week we had 45! After September to June, we gave approximately that, we had 65 because word had gotten $4,900 to other charities around Aurora. around the community.” “The facilities here at the church are Since those early days, Martha’s Table paid for by the church congregation and has become a destination. Thursday none of the money that comes through the The Town of Aurora collects personal information in communications or presentations made to Town Council and/ mornings on Victoria Street are door [goes to that]. There are people who or its Committees. The Town collects this information to enable it to make informed decisions on the relevant characterised by heavy on-street parking pay, some who can afford to pay, and some as a steady stream of people flow into the issue(s). If you are submitting letters, faxes, emails, presentations or other communications to the Town, you who can’t afford to pay, and we just let it go should be aware that your name and the fact that you communicated with the Town will become part of the church hall looking for fresh food and at that, and [while] we do have to pay for friendship. public record and will appear on the Town’s website. The Town will also make your communication and any the food there hasn’t been a week where we personal information in it, such as your address and postal code or email address available to the public unless All of the work is done by volunteers, haven’t been able to cover the cost of food.” you expressly request the Town to remove it. By submitting a fax, email, presentation or other communication, you both inside and outside the church When the crowd is cleared out after are authorizing the Town to collect and use the above-noted information for this purpose. The Town audio records community, young and old, who always the weekly meal, Ms. Dawn says Martha’s Public Planning meetings. If you make a presentation to Town Council and/or its Committees, the Town will be provide just enough elbow grease to make Table measures their success by the audio recording you and Town staff and may make these audio recordings available to the public. Please direct Martha’s Table a well-oiled machine, with number of people “laughing, talking, any questions about this collection to the Town Clerk at 905-727-3123, ext. 4771. a menu that changes each week based on smiling, and not bringing soup back!” This Zoning By-law (O. Reg. 545/06) donations, with homemade soup being one fellowship, in turn, is something she says particular constant. If a person or a public body does not make oral submissions at a public meeting or make written submissions to sustains them going forward, interacting, The Town of Aurora before the bylaw is passed, the person or public body is not entitled to appeal the decision of “Our original philosophy was we just meeting friends they have not seen in a the Council of The Town of Aurora to the Ontario Municipal Board. If a person or public body does not make oral wanted to feed the community who needed long time, and, in some cases, just getting submissions at a public meeting or make written submissions to The Town of Aurora before the bylaw is passed, something to eat,” says Ms. Dawn. “If you out of the house. the person or public body may not be added as a party to the hearing of an appeal before the Ontario Municipal are hungry, you don’t live well. If you don’t “For the next 10 years we’re just going Board unless there are reasonable grounds to do so. If you wish to be notified of the decision of The Town of live well, you don’t add to the community. to be doing what we have been doing, Aurora in respect to the Zoning By-law Amendment, you must make a written request to The Town of Aurora to If we can feed you, then you’ll add to this make sure it keeps working, and make the attention of the Director of Planning & Development Services. community of Aurora. sure it keeps working the way it has been “[Over the last 10 years it has gotten working!” | better because now there are more people Town of Aurora 100 John West Way, Aurora, ON L4G 6J1 | www.aurora.ca 905-727-3123 ext. 4226 interacting. We have people with whom we send food down at the end of the day. We will send food home with people who are really in need, which might be three or four days’ Raz & Mae Khamissa, worth of food so they can survive. A lot of owners of Omars Shoes, them are seniors. The pension doesn’t go as far as you think it does, especially if you are a single person. That is just where it is INVITE YOU at – we want to feed people.” to come visit our This “we” can change from week to store and see our week, but more often than not Martha’s large selection of Table is manned by a familiar corps of men and women. Anyone is welcome to NEW BALANCE shoes come in and lend a hand, says Ms. Dawn. for men, women and children. They particularly value the connection Martha’s Table has with Holy Trinity NEW BALANCE provides comfort, stability, School in Richmond Hill, which sends between eight and 10 student volunteers support and a wide range of widths and over-sizes aged between 14 and 15 to support the group every other week. The kids bring food, help make sandwiches, prepare the desserts, and do Our smartest stability shoe yet, just about everything that needs to be done. the 860 running shoe provides con dence Everything that is prepared is available to at contact with a powerful system patrons for $4, if they can afford it. If they can’t, that is not a problem for Martha’s of technologies that help stabilize Table. your stride from impact to toe o. While the group relies on congregants to prepare their homemade soups, financial donations and revenue from meal tickets largely keep the operation afloat. Whatever is left over at the end of the day ultimately flows back into the community, says Ms. SHOES 905-727-9391 Dawn. EST. 1970 14800 Yonge St., Aurora Shopping Centre “We get whatever food we can buy, DON’T FORGET – EARN FREE SHOES – JOIN OUR KIDS CLUB! put that aside, pay for it, and whatever www.omarsshoes.com money is left over we give to Welcoming Celebrating our 44th year of business in Aurora. Like us on [email protected]/omarsshoes Arms, Yellow Brick House, the Canadian THE AURORAN, Thursday, September 4 , 2014 Page 7 “Buy Local” grows organically door-to-door through new Aurora business By Brock Weir Serving the local community was something very important to them, Growing up in Mexico, Rafael they say. In looking to be active Minassian and Lisette Palacios grew members of the Aurora community – up with an abundance of fresh, organic not to mention King and Oak Ridges produce. – they wanted to foster these local Avocados were a great favourite, connections between themselves and but so were apples and oranges – the consumer. pretty standard fare for most North “If it is vague or too wide-open, American tables. Having this produce and you don’t have that connection readily available to them instilled in with the community, it defeats the them what Rafael describes as a “love purpose,” says Rafael. “We try to of everything that is fresh”, and the source as much as possible from local couple, now Aurora residents, are farms here in Ontario. Sometimes hoping to share this love with the we have to supplement with produce residents of Aurora, King and Oak from somewhere else, but it is locally Ridges. focused. A lot of people try to promote Minassian and Palacios came to “buy local” but in many cases buying Canada looking for a better quality local, like conventional produce, of life. Mexico City was plagued with probably isn’t doing much to benefit traffic, safety issues, water problems the environment as if you are using and pollution, he says, and they organic, even though you are bringing wanted to find further opportunities it from somewhere else.” for themselves and their kids. Nine Through the fledgling business, Advertorial years later, when they were looking customers can purchase a weekly box for their latest business venture, they of fruit and vegetables to be delivered found themselves sticking to this same to the door, which is, at the end of the principle of looking for a better life. day, customizable depending on what’s Breakthrough Treatment They are now the local franchise in season and, of course, to your own owners of Organics Live, a branch of personal taste. the Toronto-based company founded “This concept is what we call ‘Best Now Available in Richmond Hill in 2012 to bring together a collective of Season’,” says Rafael. “You won’t of farmers in Southern Ontario to get the same thing in each box every provide less-expensive fresh, organic time. It changes week to week because Imagine thirty to in the neck. Many people produce to residents through home we are looking at the market and forty years ago if you love getting adjusted delivery. getting the fresh fruit that is available were told that lasers with traditional manual would replace scalpels in techniques, all of which “It’s all about the clean food every week. We try to assemble a box surgery or that robotic are safe and effective. movement,” Rafael explains. “With along those lines, offering a good mix instruments would But there are a large organic food, you are not getting into of fruit and vegetables, but if you build cars; you may not number of people who pesticides or any of those chemicals don’t want any fruits or vegetables have believed it. By the never get to experience into the body, and we think that is one in particular, you can exclude that same token, would you the amazing benefits of of the many factors contributing to from your delivery and do some believe that chiropractic chiropractic because so many illnesses. We tend to make customization.” treatments could be they are scared to have these associations, so we thought if On their first delivery, Rafael and performed using a their spines adjusted we were going to invest our time in a Lisette say they were thrilled to special hand-held in that way,” says Dr. business, what better way than through find organic avocados in their box. instrument developed Eastman. Now, there is promoting something that is healthy Whether that sold them on the concept by NASA scientists, all no longer a reason to be and that brings an actual benefit to the or not, it brought back a nice taste of while you were sitting leary. The ProAdjuster is people around us?” home. in an upright position perfect for anyone who In their Toronto-based delivery “We love everything that is fresh,” he without any turning or has been thinking about twisting movements? going to a chiropractor, service, Organics Live focuses on says. “This morning we had watermelon Advances in but hasn’t yet made that which was organic, not genetically sourcing food from local farmers and computers and decision. Dr. Eastman producers to get the fresh goods directly modified, it came with all the seeds, engineering wants everyone to be into the hands of the consumers “with so it reminded us of when we were technologies have been able to experience these as little waste as possible.” kids eating those fruits in Mexico that Dr. Eastman uses the Proadjust- able to uniquely blend er to analyze a patient’s spine same benefits and if “Our model is hyper-lean and they were not genetically modified, as with chiropractic in you have any of the focused on reducing waste across the opposed to the ones you get now without order to both analyze and pin-point areas of nerve following conditions, board,” said Lisette. “This enables us the seeds. 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Page 8 THE AURORAN, Thursday, September 4, 2014 New Aurora, Newmarket, and Georgina moms top demand at Rose of Sharon By Brock Weir but with their they findmum, we’re supporting the father or share of the those in the any other immediate family members.” Rose of Sharon provides services Hoedown pot, southern tier After a recent pilot program based for young mothers to young families they hope typically take in Georgina focusing on healthy throughout York Region, but when it to increase advantage relationships, communications, and comes to the number of people coming support of programs how to co-parent, they had a great through their doors, Aurora is among not only offered in the reception from eight couples looking the top three municipalities that come to existing evenings or at to build this family bridge. Now the big to use their services. programs but different times question is whether they will be able to The Newmarket-based non-profit has also get a third because these take this program out of the pilot stage lent a hand to young moms since its session off the mothers are into something more substantial. inception nearly 30 years ago and, for the ground. often working “It comes down to resources, so a second year running, it has been named “The or in school. long-term vision for us is to either look one of the 15 community beneficiaries biggest thing In recent at more joint initiatives with agencies of the annual Wild, Wild West Hoedown, with our years, Rose of that have some of these programs, or be hosted by Magna International next moms is really Sharon has a lead and expand it to fathers and more weekend. to get them to also found couple counselling for families. It’s not Rose of Sharon provides help for a place,” says Rose of Sharon is one of 15 York Region a growing just about young mothers, but others young women and, more recently, young Ms. Robinson. interest in who are helping her care for her baby.” charities that will split all proceeds raised for fathers as well, to learn how, and what “One way their services resources are available to help them the money is this year’s Hoedown. from young A full weekend of Hoedown raise their children and form strong supportive Auroran photo by Brock Weir dads, often celebrations kicks off with the finals of family bonds. With Aurora leading the to us is that looking for the 2014 Hoedown Showdown on Friday, way with Newmarket and Georgina transportation counselling September 12, and the main Hoedown with families in need, proceeds from is a huge barrier to service for a lot of alongside their partners or co-parents. event on Saturday, September 13. For this year’s Hoedown will have a direct these moms. If we can get them to a “It is great,” says Ms. Robinson. ticket information, visit www.hoedown. impact on the community. program where they are not isolated, “When you’re talking about family ca. For more information on Rose of “When we applied to Hoedown, we that is really important. Sometimes strengthening strategies and keeping Sharon, visit www.therose.ca. were really thinking about one program there is a lot of embarrassment for families together, specifically, and that is our Mothers them, there is a lot of judgement towards albeit they are Matters program,” says Melissa them, specifically to young mothers. young, it doesn’t Robinson of Rose of Sharon. “The If they are in any kind of difficult matter, but it is program works in collaboration with situation, we want them to really come a great way to Children’s Aid of York Region (CAS) out to programs to feel confident as put forward the and we get moms who are at risk of parents, be with other parents of the effort together. child welfare involvement, or have child same age. It is difficult for a mom that is The challenge $99 course discount with this ad only welfare involvement, work alongside 17 or 18 to be in the same program as a 35 we find now is the CAS to understand what they need year old. They are in very different ages our services are 905-713-3733 to do and what is being asked of them by and stages of their lives and they have directly to the their workers to improve their parental different issues.” mums and we • MTO Licenced&Approved Course Provider capacity. With Aurora, Newmarket and know that when Jerry Collins, Owner/Operator “It is very strength-based and it is Georgina appearing to be the we’re supporting www.ontarionewdrivers.ca to encourage young mothers to raise communities in biggest need of Rose of secure children.” Sharon’s services, they aim to support A significant chunk of the program any women that come to them from their focuses on parenting skills, attachment, teens to the age of 25. As to why these and reducing isolation that might be felt numbers are trending higher in York Hogan’s Inn by young mothers who are experiencing Region’s northern tier, Ms. Robinson the same challenges in their lives. The says they have a few theories. 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It has brought significant tax revenues to those communities as well, so much so that even consultants that were advising the government were pretty stunned because it was bigger than they anticipated.” The same things can happen in Aurora and Newmarket if the transit proposal gets off the ground, he said. Businesses will soon start looking to intensify, looking for redevelopment opportunities, and taking advantage of land still available for them to build on in Aurora. “I think we will see some really good things,” said Mr. Ballard. “Not only will it help the people who asked me what I can do for them, not only will it make their commute to Toronto, for those who work in Toronto, much easier, it will make access to [post-]secondary school education easier. “Ultimately, what I would like to see is those high-paying jobs people have to commute to Toronto [for], located right here in Newmarket-Aurora.” Ultimately, however, this expansion of the GO service will come at a price. Any spending will have to be found through efficiencies, he said, and the Government is committed to eliminating the deficit by 2017-2018, and there will be decisions that have to be made. “I am not daydreaming,” said Mr. Ballard. “This can be done and it will be done.” Beyond the benefits of attracting business to the community, Mr. Ballard also extolled the benefits such a move would have on existing businesses. THE AURORAN, Thursday, September 4 , 2014 Page 9 Aurora-Oak Ridges-Richmond Hill Liberals wait for nomination date By Brock Weir he says. Mr. Trudeau has proven himself a “very smart and capable politician” able to gauge the Water Softening, Purification, While Aurora Liberals living north of Wellington mood of the nation, and engage people from coast Street gear up to acclaim their next Federal to coast, he adds. 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Youth employment is another M In between his day job, as well issue which he has heard from HOMPSONS as doing his part looking after residents, particularly what Mr. T A New Approach to Memorial Design. his infant son, who was born just Cherniak sees as a lack thereof. * Granite markers and monuments three weeks ago, Mr. Cherniak “We have been seeing the youth * Cemetery lettering and restoration has been spending his time going unemployment rate at about double * Bronze markers and vases door-to-door, introducing himself the adult unemployment rate but at * Serving all cemeteries and nationalities to as many people as possible, the same time you have a very strong * Portrait Etchings and encouraging them to join the underemployment problem,” he party. says. “In the last jobs report, you Quality and Satisfaction Guaranteed “What I am hearing is Liberals have 200,000 full-time jobs lost Day, Evening and Weekend Appointments in our riding are looking for a and 60,000 part-time jobs created. good candidate who is going to be You can look at this as more jobs 905-727-5421 able to go door-to-door and appeal created, but you have to recognize 530 Industrial Pkwy S., Aurora L4G 6W8 to the average person,” he says. that people can’t live on part-time “We know now that the opponent jobs and that is a problem if it is Thompson Funeral Home is proud to be part of is going to be Costas Menegakis, Jason Cherniak an ongoing trend in the economy, Service Corporation International (Canada) Ltd. so it has to be someone with good which business experience that can match up to him. it has been under the “I have been running my own law firm for six Conservatives.” years now, including training articling students Whenever Aurora-Oak to be lawyers and creating jobs in the community. Ridges-Richmond Hill I have also been involved in the Liberal party for Grits get the call that a date about 16 years now as a volunteer and have held has been set to pick their various leadership roles, travelling thousands of candidate, it will still likely miles across the Province to help the Liberal party be approximately a year even during times when things weren’t as good for before Canadians go to the We’re us since 2006.” polls. Until then it is anyone’s Going door-to-door, however, Mr. Cherniak guess on what issue will make says he gets the feeling there is significantly more residents sit up and take Hiring optimism among residents towards the Liberal notice and ultimately become party than there was in the past couple of elections. engaged in the federal vote. The party is doing well in the polls, he says, but that “I know the Conservatives is not something they can bank on. It is time to hit are trying to make marijuana the pavement, and members are turning out excited, the main issue, but that is not feeling the tools are in place to win an election. the issue I am hearing from “This time the optimism really is stronger and people at the doors. I think there is almost a sense that if we don’t do it this they have misjudged it. I think time, when are we going to do it?” he says. “People the main issue in the next are feeling very good, feeling very confident and election is going to be about Education they are expecting to pick up a lot of seats, certainly whether we want to continue in York Region. 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The score and New Lowell in Jays are just going Stickle proudly announced to the nervous was close at half but a strong second period six games total, the to stick to their team that there was nothing to worry prevented any possible comeback. Scoring Jays now face their game. about as his team, “had the best kicker in for Aurora with tries were captain Marnus toughest opponent “We’re quite Ontario.” Coetzee, with three, plus singles by Liam yet in the Ivy Leafs. confident we can Fortunately for the him, and the rest Kennelly and DJ Dillon. Chown added to The Leafs put up runs in of the team, Coach Stickle was absolutely the scoring with two converts. finished the season bunches, and our correct as kicker Connor Chown was Next up was an extremely tough match in third place, two consistency on perfect, converting all three attempts, in the against Mississauga. The game was a close points behind the defence has been penalty kick shootout to give Aurora the physical encounter between two teams league-leading key all year long.” win, 15- 12 over Bytown Blues from Ottawa. unwilling to give even an inch. At the final Jays. “We might be The win capped a wonderful season for whistle the scores were level at 22, and the Ivy is also riding the team to beat on the u18 team, a season in which they had game went to overtime. A successful penalty a high heading to paper, but we have an overall record of ten wins and only two kick by Chown less than two minutes into the championship a healthy dose of losses and a remarkable run of five wins the sudden death was the difference maker series, coming off respect for Ivy and in four days to win both the Toronto Rugby and Aurora was on to the Toronto Rugby a second-round are ready to bring Union Championship and the Provincial Continued on page 13 win that saw them our ‘A’ game.” defeat the Bolton Although the Brewers, winners NDBL is on a short of the last five break before the Strother Cups. championship And Jays coach kicks off Saturday, Rob Wilson said his the Jays stayed 48th Annual Kleinburg team is not taking in playing form their opponent last weekend at and Area lightly. The Aurora Jays swept the New Lowell the Senior AA Provincials in “We were able to Knights 3 - 0 in the semifinals of the find some success Orillia. NDBL playoffs. against them After a first- Auroran photo by Jake Courtepatte sduring the season, round bye, the but we really expect Jays finished third overall after a win over London and a loss Binder Twine Festival Ivy to come out guns blazing on Saturday.” Saturday, September 6, 2014 Wilson said this year’s Ivy team is each to Exeter and New Lowell. stronger than in past years, with the For full NDBL schedules and stats, visit Please join the residents of Kleinburg and Area acquisitions of Todd Gowan and pitcher www.ndbl.ca. for a fun- lled day! Gates open at 9 a.m. Please leave pets at home. 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By Jake Courtepatte Tigers, scoring a goal with everybody.” first league title since 2007. and three assists in a 5-1 “We’ve got a real The team now heads to Vermont for The Aurora Tigers Junior A win. The rematch two strong character in an NCAA showcase, before opening hockey team didn’t skip a beat in the days later saw a much the room already this the regular season in Stouffville on offseason, continuing their stellar closer competition year. We’ve got good Saturday, September 13. play where it left off last season. game, with the Tigers speed, we’re strong on Fans will be able to get their first The St. Michael’s Buzzers came squeaking out a 2-1 the puck…those AAareurora look at MtheM inor2014-2015 team at their to Aurora on August 22 to open the victory in overtime the things that make a home opener against Hamilton on preseason schedule. Down 3-2 after to end the preseason difference.” HockeySept. A 19.ssociation two periods, the Tigers rallied to schedule with a 4-0 The Tigers finished ForA full schedules, stats, and score five goals in the third against record. first in the North information, check out www. the 2013 OJHL champs. Despite their impressive preseason Division and secondIMPORTANT in the OJHL last INFORMATIONauroratigers.pointstreak.com. REGARDING Three days later, the Buzzers performance, the 2014-2015 Tigers season with a 38- hosted the Tigers, where the scoring team experienced a big roster 12-1-2 record, good 2014/2015 REGISTRATION frenzy continued as the Tigers won turnover from last season. All in for 79 points. handily 6-0. Andy Munroe picked up all, the team added one goalie, four However, OUR TEAM IS GROWING the shutout in the win. defencemen and eleven forwards. they met a CQ Hair Studio The Newmarket Hurricanes then “If you’re doing your job of moving strong Toronto LAST DATES TO REGISTERWelcomes BEFORE LATE FEES! made the short trip to Aurora last kids onto higher levels, then you’re Lakeshore Wednesday, to face off for the first going to be adding new guys every Patriots team in Nella time since the Tigers swept the year,” said James Richmond, TigersOn-Line the Registration Buckland Cup begins: April 1, 201from4 St. Andrews Village to its team. Hurricanes in the first round of the head coach and general manager. finals, falling in Walk-ins Welcome OJHL playoffs last season. “On the whole, the team looked six games while OPEN SUNDAYS Eric Williams led the way for the great,” said Richmond. “We’re happy looking for their In office registration: Wednesday, MayAurora 28 Village (6 pm Plaza – 9 pm) Saturday, May 24cqhairstudio.com and May 31 (10 am – 1 pm) Outstanding year brings u18 Barbs into spotlight 905-503-0803 REGISTRATION fees for the 2014/2015 season are: From page 12 Union (TRU) Final. Other scoring for Aurora were tries by Gustavo Mozzato, Adam Hankins, Kennelly $555.00 Players born 1994 through 2008* and Coetzee, while Chown added a convert. The TRU Final was held that afternoon and after only a short rest the team $ 50.00 Late fee effective June 1 – 30, 2014* was back on the field, this time against Markham Irish. Once again the boys rose to the occasion and played in impressive $100.00 Late fee effective July 1, 2014* fashion defeating their rivals 22-0 to capture PUBLIC NOTICE the title. Scoring tries were Dillon, Mozzato, Coetzee and Chown added a penalty and a $ 50.00 Non-Resident Fee (if applicable) conversion. That victory earned them a spot the next day’s Ontario Cup semi-final match against *First time registrants in Tyke born in 2007 and 2008 must register in person and submit a copy of a Sarnia. So, for the fourth time in four days the coaches began preparation for another birth certificate and proof of residency. It is recommended that 2008 players have either taken skating win-or-go-home match. lessons or completed one year of Opti Hockey. This time the decision was never in doubt with Aurora cruising to a comfortable 32-0 win. Scoring was led by Ben Risi with three A 10% discount applies to families with 3 or more players. tries and singles from Kennelly, Jordan Marsh and Anthony Veltri. Chown added a single convert into a very difficult wind. *Late fees do not apply to new registrants. After the match, Chown received support and advice from the coaches to just worry about making good contact Refunds (less $25 administration fee) will be issued to anyone withdrawing prior to September 1, 2014. on his kicks and to try not to think about the wind. It proved prophetic advice as the Ontario Final was decided by the cool NEW REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS accurate kicking of Chown. At the kick-off, Aurora was beginning its fifth match in four days while their opponent, Bytown, were well-rested and https://omhahockeyparent.respectgroupinc.com/secure/ eager to play exciting attacking rugby. However, Aurora struck first when fullback Dillon scooped up a loose ball and ran 60 The Ontario Minor Hockey Association has mandated that one parent per family must complete meters to score under the posts. Chown the online “Respect In Sport” – Parent Program in order for their child to be rostered to an added two with the convert and Aurora was up by seven. AMHA team this season. Bytown pushed through to lead 12-7 with GOING OUT time running down in the second half, but winger Luc Travell escaped the clutches of his opposite number and outraced the defenders to score and tie the match. PLEASE REGISTER EARLY! Unfortunately Chown missed this convert and the game ended 12-12. With no sudden Guaranteed spots are available ONLY to players death overtime the game was to be decided registered on or before June 30, 2014. in a penalty kicks shoot out. Each kicker made the first two, but We will not add teams in September to accommodate late registrants. when the Blues kicker pushed his third attempt wide it opened the door for Aurora. As Chown’s kick sailed through the uprights loud cheers were heard as the OF BUSINESS Aurora Barbarians were the 2013 Ontario Champions!

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COMING EVENTS delightful celebration of food the Market. Our own Manatee and wine with seminars and [email protected] Band will be playing and SEPTEMBER 5 – 7 cooking competitions. This there will be a face painter, The 8th annual Aurora Ribfest returns WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 year’s TASTE is on September Friday for the “tastiest event of the year”. The PROBUS Club of Aurora meets a scavenger hunt, crafts for Held at Machell Park, the event brings today at the Royal Canadian Legion, 105 27. kids and a draw for a Market together five “ribbers” hailing from Fort Industrial Parkway North, from 10 a.m. to They welcome everyone Erie to Florida, and other tasty treats to 12 p.m. This month’s guest speaker is Flight bag full of goodies at 12 noon. satisfy every palate, and the traditional Lt. Alex Campbell, a veteran of the Second to join their harvest parties, beer garden hosted by the Aurora Rotary World War. For more information on our MARKET which are usually held around Club. The celebrated Glass Tiger headlines See you at the Market! speaker, call program chair Cliff White at Thanksgiving. Friday evening entertainment beginning at 905-841-2421. New members are welcome. MUSINGS 9 p.m., while Saturday is all about Platinum To learn more about the club, contact Gary They also Jan Freedman Blonde as they take the stage at 9 p.m. Age Gilbert at 905-895-2849 or join us at the participate in of majority applies after 8 p.m. For more meeting. information, visit www.aurora.ca. The last market day of August is now Wassail during THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 Service You Deserve, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 Amnesty International writes letters history and we look forward to the very the last two The Aurora Seniors Association will host on current human rights issues tonight at busy days of September, when everyone weekends of a Friday Night Social Dance this evening 7.30 p.m. at The Rectory, Trinity Anglican from 8 – 11 p.m. Singles and non-members Church. 79 Victoria Street, Aurora. All are is back to school and work. November and always welcome. Admission is $4.50 for welcome. For more information, call 905-713- The farmers’ tables will be piled high the first weekend Someone You members of the Association and $5 for non- 6713. members. Tickets include light refreshments with beautiful produce and there will be of December. and a cash bar is available with wine and FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 lots of choice. In addition, we now have This is the Prince beer. The Aurora Seniors’ Centre is located at Dust off your cowboy boots and shoes Can Trust 90 John West Way. for the Hoedown Showdown, taking place a local lamb farmer joining us and I will Edward County from 5 p.m. to midnight at the Magna Corral. tell you more about them in a future Winegrowers SEPTEMBER 6 – 8 Featuring headliner Tim Hicks and the Wavestage Theatre Company is holding Wolfcreek Band, and host Beverley Mahood, column. Association auditions for its 20th season musicals. We are this year’s finalists in the local talent At the Market last Saturday, the second celebration of interested in performers of all ages. Peter competition will compete for the crown – and of our wineries, Stanners Vineyard, was the laying down Pan – seeking adult men to portray pirates, the right to play before thousands tomorrow b 905-833-0111 boys and girls to portray the children and at the Wild, Wild West Hoedown. Admission back for another visit. They are a family and burying of animals of Neverland, and adult women and is $25. For more information, visit www. owned, artisan winery set in Hillier, the grape canes teens to play Mrs. Darling, lost boys and other hoedown.ca. c 289-221-4564 rolls. Adult men are also sought for roles in Prince Edward County. The co-owners for their winter * * * * Guys and Dolls. For more information, visit are Cliff and Dorothy Stanners, and son www.wavestagetheatre.com. The Aurora Seniors Association invites slumber and a big you to a Trivia Challenge at the Seniors’ and daughter-in-law, Colin Stanners and sigh of relief for SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 Centre. Four games will be played and each End of Summer ART BLAST – Take table will form one team. Prizes for winning Mary Macdonald. the wine growers! a break from technology. Join artists from tables and door prizes. Light refreshments The first inkling that they might begin The next Sherman J. Studio and Local Colour Aurora and dessert will be served at intermission. a winery was triggered by a bicycling as they show off their latest paintings. $10 per person. Seating is limited. The Special Event Styles range from traditional to quirky and Aurora Seniors’ Centre is located at 90 John trip that Cliff and Dorothy took around at the Aurora everything in between. Come and meet the West Way. artists and explore their visual language of the county in 2002. There had been Farmers’ Market shape and colour. This Fine Art Show and SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 murmurings of a wine region with a and Artisan Fair Sale takes place at 89 Temperance Street York Region’s biggest party returns to few wineries and a number of vineyards Maria Ongaro from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. All ages are welcome Aurora tonight with Magna’s Wild, Wild West is our annual and admission is free. Hoedown, featuring headliners Lonestar. For soon to become wineries setting up Apples and more information, including where to buy Sales Representative, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 your tickets, visit www.hoedown.ca. locally. This seemed like an extremely Honey Festival The 25th Anniversary Feast of Fields appealing idea to all the family. on September 6. Trends Realty Inc. Organic Food Festival will take place today * * * * from 1 – 6 p.m. at Cold Creek Conservation The Aurora Branch of the Royal Dorothy and Cliff were living We are hoping Area in King Township. “The Grande Dame” Canadian Legion will host a Country- in Quebec where Cliff worked as a that the weather of Organic Food Festivals, Feast of Fields Western night this evening at 6.30 p.m. microbiologist in cancer research and 12967 Keele St., Unit 1, King City celebrates their milestone with a star-studded “Wanted: Cowboys and cowgirls. It’s gonna co-operates so cast of celebrity chefs, award-winning be a wild, wild west party with Miss Piggy Dorothy worked in the Beaconsfield that Andre can [email protected] restaurants, Ontario’s finest VQA wine and on the barbeque, corn on the cob, assorted library. Mary and Colin were then bring his bees to micro-breweries, plus organic growers and salads and desserts,” say organizers, but producers. For more information, visit www. no comment at press time from Kermit the living in the San Francisco Bay area feastoffields.org. Frog. Advance tickets are available at the where Colin’s scientific background in Legion for $15. * * * * physical chemistry eventually led to SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 The Aurora Community Band will work in the computer industry. Mary host its first rehearsal of the season this The Aurora Community Arboretum BPS evening from 7 – 9 p.m. at the Aurora will host their annual Shoreline Cleanup worked as a potter/artist and, of course, Cultural Centre. Rehearsals are held today beginning at 10 a.m. Interested mother. each Sunday at the same time. If you are volunteers are asked to meet at the gazebo Plumbing Service a brass, woodwind or percussion player near the Aurora Soccer Dome on Industrial Both families were making wines with some concert band experience, Parkway North. For more information on as amateurs at home and, in the early EST. 1972 you can attend two complimentary the cleanup and other activities, contact the rehearsals before the membership fee Arboretum at 905-727-3492 or email trees@ 2000s, their lives were at transition applies. For further information, contact Continued on page 17 points so they decided to jump into a new adventure. They bought the spot at 76 Station Road in 2003 and planted the • RESIDENTIAL • COMMERCIAL • INDUSTRIAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE first acre in 2005. 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From page 1 of their beliefs as important but I do feel just as important doing that Ms. Naylor-Thimm is taking a leading role and those were to have an work at the United Nations because we in a second installment planned for next the situations impact on an are raising our future leaders. Our work March, tentatively scheduled to coincide we were talking individual, of raising these children will influence the with International Women’s Day. about because regardless future, hopefully. [These panels] are very Before she moved to Aurora, Ms. Naylor- we were familiar of position, timely and I know Aurorans are far away Thimm was a lawyer working for the with them, but station, or from what is happening, but people here United Nations, advocating for the Baha’i they are also age. have big hearts and are really concerned International Community, an accredited similar situations “To me, with social justice. NGO, to advocate for human rights all over faced by other working to “I was really inspired at the last panel the world and, in her case, Iran. minorities in build a strong with how much people cared. They wanted “I was focused on rights as it pertains Iran.” community to know what they could do and how they to Freedom of Religion and particularly When asked if here is just as could help and I think that is always a great in countries where it was denied,” she she felt she and important,” thing to be a part of.” says. “We actually worked very closely her group were Aurora resident Tahirih Naylor-Thimm has she says. with Canada through the United Nations truly making a studied human rights issues in Iran through “I know it For more information on upcoming General Assembly. Within that Assembly, difference when the UN. Auroran photo by Brock Weir sounds silly, events, visit www.library.aurora.on.ca. there is one committee that focuses on the ground, specifically on human rights and for the Ms. Naylor-Thimm says one shouldn’t past 15 years, Canada has sponsored a discount the power of awareness. There is resolution on the human rights situation no world government that can “enforce a TOWN OF AURORA in Iran, bringing up violations [of the certain set of norms” on governments and PUBLIC NOTICE rights of] Christians, Jews, Baha’is, “shaming and embarrassing” a country homosexuals, women, and any minorities not living up to universal standards of having their rights violated in Iran.” human rights can be very effective tools. According to Ms. Naylor-Thimm, who “Certainly Iran fought back with is Baha’i herself, the Iranian government everything they had,” she explains. “It in the immediate aftermath of the 1979 wasn’t like they didn’t care. They would Resolution effectively outlawed the lobby really hard and deny that they were NOTICE OF PUBLIC PLANNING MEETING democratically elected councils that doing these things, deny it was a problem, Aurora Town Council will hold a public meeting on Wednesday, September 24, 2014 at 7 p.m. at governed the Baha’i faith at the local and but the truth is there. As an educated Aurora Town Hall, Council Chambers, to consider the following planning application. national levels. They were denied access person, you can see all the accounts APPLICATION: The Owner has submitted an Official Plan Amendment and Zoning Bylaw to universities and other forms of post- coming out of the country and what was Amendment Applications to allow a proposed community commercial secondary education and, in many cases, really going on, so it had the effect of development over the 2.5 hectare of land. The proposed commercial banned from secondary and elementary the government realising the world is development includes a range of commercial uses including; grocery store, schools as well, as well as being barred watching. Canada’s efforts in bringing restaurant, drug stores, bank and other retail commercial stores in from holding government jobs. this resolution have certainly been one accordance to the 2B Secondary Plan (OPA 30). “Their cemeteries have been thing that is consistently trying to shed PROPERTY: 800 St. John’s Sideroad desecrated and even the freedom just to light on a dark situation.” LEGAL DESCRIPTION: Part of Lot 26, Concession 2 meet together will often be interrupted After she came home and left the UN [with them being] hauled off to prison,” to raise her children, she said one of the APPLICANT: RCG Aurora North Limited Partnership she explains. “Hundreds of Baha’is have most significant things she learned is FILE NUMBERS: D09-02-12 and D14-09-12 been imprisoned. In the 1980s a number change can be made on many levels. As CONTACT: Additional information may be obtained from Lawrence Kuk of the Planning of them were actually executed because important as the work is there, it is equally & Development Services department at 905-727-3123 ext. 4343. Comments may also be mailed to the Planning & Development Services department at the same address, faxed to 905-726-4736 or emailed to [email protected] Culture Days at Theatre Aurora prior to the meeting. Please quote the file name and number. By Bruce Williamson to help portray the moods, tensions and reactions of the actors as they become the Theatre Aurora is excited to be characters in the script. participating in the national Culture Days The theatrical adaptation of Prisoner initiative with a special presentation of a of Tehran by Dora Award winning writer short reading from the theatre adaptation and director, Maja Ardal, was written to be of Aurora resident Marina Nemat’s performed by only three actors portraying compelling, bestselling memoir, Prisoner more than 20 different characters. The of Tehran. script closely Prisoner of recounts the events and narrative of Tehran was the The Town of Aurora collects personal information in communications or presentations made to Town Council and/ selected book of the book and will or its Committees. The Town collects this information to enable it to make informed decisions on the relevant Aurora Public provide a chilling, issue(s). If you are submitting letters, faxes, emails, presentations or other communications to the Town, you Library’s One Book provocative and should be aware that your name and the fact that you communicated with the Town will become part of the One Aurora project. moving evening public record and will appear on the Town’s website. The Town will also make your communication and any On Saturday, of theatre as an personal information in it, such as your address and postal code or email address available to the public unless September 27, inspiring preview you expressly request the Town to remove it. By submitting a fax, email, presentation or other communication, you from 2 – 4 p.m., Ms to the short are authorizing the Town to collect and use the above-noted information for this purpose. The Town audio records Nemat will answer presentation as part Public Planning meetings. If you make a presentation to Town Council and/or its Committees, the Town will be questions at the Library about her book of the Culture Days collaboration. audio recording you and Town staff and may make these audio recordings available to the public. Please direct and discuss her experiences at the age of Theatre Aurora has been a proud any questions about this collection to the Town Clerk at 905-727-3123, ext. 4771. 16 when she was held as a political prisoner contributor to the rich and varied cultural Official Plan (O. Reg. 543/06) in the notorious Evin Prison in Iran at the community of the Town of Aurora for 56 If a person or public body does not make oral submissions at a public meeting or make written submissions to time of the overthrow of the Shah. years, and we welcome this opportunity to The Town of Aurora before the proposed Official Plan Amendment is adopted, the person or public body is not As an introduction to her presentation, collaborate with the Aurora Public Library entitled to appeal the decision of the Council of The Town of Aurora or The Regional Municipality of York, as the members of Theatre Aurora will perform in the presentation of this inspiring case may be, to the Ontario Municipal Board. If a person or public body does not make oral submissions at a a short selection from Prisoner of Tehran memoir. public meeting or make written submission to The Town of Aurora before the proposed Official Plan Amendment which was adapted into a stage play by This is a moving story of faith and is adopted, the person or public body may not be added as a party to the hearing of an appeal before the Ontario Maja Ardal and performed at Theatre survival, and given the current global Municipal Board unless in the opinion of the Board, there are reasonable grounds to add the person or public Passe Muraille in Toronto by the Contrary mood of unrest and conflict, perhaps it is body as a party. If you wish to be notified of the adoption of the proposed Official Plan Amendment or of the Company in 2012. a story that will help to shed a bit of light refusal of a request to amend the Official Plan, you must make a written request to The Town of Aurora to the attention of the Director of Planning & Development Services. Those seeking the full theatrical into some of the dark places in our world. experience will not want to miss a staged The production of this staged reading Zoning By-law (O. Reg. 545/06) reading of the entire play performed by falls outside the Theatre Aurora subscriber If a person or a public body does not make oral submissions at a public meeting or make written submissions to Theatre Aurora the preceding Thursday series, but everyone is welcome, and we The Town of Aurora before the bylaw is passed, the person or public body is not entitled to appeal the decision of through Friday, September 18, 19 and 20. encourage the people of Aurora to come the Council of The Town of Aurora to the Ontario Municipal Board. If a person or public body does not make oral For people unfamiliar with this type of and spend an engaging and entertaining submissions at a public meeting or make written submissions to The Town of Aurora before the bylaw is passed, theatre format, a staged reading follows evening at our local theatre on Henderson the person or public body may not be added as a party to the hearing of an appeal before the Ontario Municipal the script in its entirety and will be Drive. Board unless there are reasonable grounds to do so. If you wish to be notified of the decision of The Town of accompanied by lighting, sound and visual Tickets will be available at the box office, Aurora in respect to the Zoning By-law Amendment, you must make a written request to The Town of Aurora to effects to assist the audience in following or online at the Theatre Aurora website, the attention of the Director of Planning & Development Services. www.theatreaurora.com. the scene, location and time changes, and Town of Aurora 100 John West Way, Aurora, ON L4G 6J1 | www.aurora.ca | 905-727-3123 ext. 4226 Page 16 THE AURORAN, Thursday, September 4, 2014 More money needed to combat snow when it starts to fly this fall By Brock Weir According to Bill Thompson of the Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority (LSRCA), plans are underway to look at It won’t be news to anyone, with the possible exception of ways to whittle “broad-based Provincial objectives” of snow and SENIOR snowbirds, but this past winter was one of the most challenging salt management down to “locally specific” recommendations SCAPE in recent memory – and Aurora is still paying the cost for bearing for all communities living on and around tributaries flowing into Sylvia Dickens Mother Nature’s wrath. Lake Simcoe. This culminated in a sub-watershed management With far more weather “incidents” than what were plan for the east Holland River, which flows through Aurora, but Seniors’ Centre anticipated during the 2014 Budget cycle, Councillors are set this more plans are under review. week to approve a $225,000 budget increase to the 2014 Winter The Conservation Authority, he said, needs to work with their opens late Maintenance program just to get through to the end of 2014. municipal partners to develop ways to monitor meltwater going In a recommendation coming forward to General into the streams, reducing reliance on storm water management Do you find yourself wondering why the Committee this week, Ilmar Simanovskis, Aurora’s Director ponds with an eye towards more permeable pavement and other Centre isn’t open later? Most activities end of Infrastructure and Environmental services, says this budget solutions, and how to mitigate the effects of road salt. around 3.45 p.m. to give members a chance increase will, if approved by Council, come out of Aurora’s tax While Mr. Thompson said he and the LSRCA supported what to clean up and leave the building by 4:30 rate stabilization reserve. was before Council last month as a “comprehensive” plan, he added more work needs to be done for “public education around p.m. when it officially closes. Further recommendations also cover new contracts for plowing roads and sidewalks through the next seven years. the proper use of salt” as well as mapping areas in and around Some people prefer the early close so When Council last met in mid-August, ensuring the Aurora that are particularly “vulnerable” to the use of road salt. they can get home to prepare dinner and municipality had enough salt, sand, and equipment on the “We’re finding essentially sea water coming off the stones perhaps take care of a few chores or maybe roads to get the Town through another harsh winter relatively at those sites because it is a very concentrated source,” said spend time with their grandchildren. The unscathed was a key topic when reviewing budget shortfalls. Mr. Thompson of a snow disposal site in Newmarket, which rest of us just accept the fact it’s closed and Money set aside for the Department of Infrastructure was just was releasing what he described as “surprisingly high levels” follow the happy crowd out the door. over $565,000 overbudget, over half of which could be attributed of chloride into the environment. “It is something we need What you might not know, however, is to greater-than-anticipated snowfalls. to address going forward and we’re just at the early stages of that there are days in the week when the “As you might imagine, we have had a number of additional identifying the way forward on that issue.” Centre stays open later. On Tuesdays, the events,” said Mr. Simanovskis, responding to questions from doors close at 9 p.m. and on Fridays they Councillor Michael Thompson, about the budget discrepancy. shut at 11 p.m. Those evenings are used for “We see 40 or 45 events a year, [but] we had over 60 events this two organized events: movies on Tuesdays year. An event is essentially any time that we have had to go and dances on Fridays. Card players take out and cover the Town, whether it is salt-sand application or DAMIR VRANCIC advantage of these later closing times to get plowing. One storm might require two actual rounds, and those in a few extra games. If you like billiards or are the primary drivers for those cost increases.” LAW OFFICE snooker, the pool room is always available Additional costs came from managing facilities due to the regardless of the time of day or evening. “colder than usual” winter. Keeping everything working drove BUSINESS LAW, Just be sure to put it back the way you energy costs up, he added. REAL ESTATE, found it and shut out the lights when you’re “We don’t have any money to actually do any sanding and WILLS & ESTATES done. snowplowing this fall,” Mr. Simanovskis concluded, following If you are looking for ways to fill those further questions from Councillor John Gallo on variances. two evenings, participate in the dances or “Because the winter program is split between two years, we 905-841-6411 spent the bulk of the money from January into April and then check out a movie now and then. They are Providing valued and trusted legal advice since 1983 from November to December. We have spent everything up until usually well-chosen and well-appreciated the April period.” by attendees. Outside of the Infrastructure Department, the Town’s For example, last month seniors watched overall financial picture is looking up, according to staff. In a Heaven is for Real starring Greg Kinnear second report, Town Treasurer Dan Elliott said they forecast and Kelly Reilly where a small-town father a year-end surplus of nearly $420,000, stemming from “overall must find the courage and conviction to greater than anticipated revenues” driven by activities in the • Manicure • Solar Nails share his son’s extraordinary life-changing 2C Development, which will bring thousands of new homes • Spa Pedicure • UV Gel Nails

Hollidge Blvd. . experience with the world. On August and commercial developments to Aurora, as well as “general e v • Acrylic A • Bio Gel 20, organizers held a special afternoon operational savings.” w matinee featuring 12 Years a Slave starring i e • Air Brush Design Leading up to last month’s failure of the long-proposed snow N v Chiwetel Ejiofor and Lupita Nyong’o. In dump for Lambert Willson Park, which fell on a tie vote, snow y Wellington St. E. B a the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon and what to do with it, had provided some cool thoughts around Walk-ins welcome Northup, a free black man from upstate the Council table during the long summer weeks. 130 Hollidge Blvd. • 905-727-6030 New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Each month, the movies are listed in the newsletter which is displayed on the reception desk. It also contains other announcements such as upcoming trips and special events. If you are on the internet, you can read the newsletter online by going to the ASA website noted below. TAKE A SHORTCUT Speaking of entertainment. The recently new Keep on Singing program is open to anyone, regardless of your singing talents. It’s a fun way for members to gather TO THE BEACH and enjoy some of their favorite songs. Participants sing to guitar played by Dave Griffith and visit area senior residences to entertain their members. The group meets from 10.30 a.m. to noon every Thursday. For more information contact Dave Griffith at [email protected] or Judy at judy202@ rogers.com. Free medical advice Two events will occur in September to help educate seniors on a few health issues. On Wednesday, September 24 at 1 p.m. the Centre will hold a seminar featuring Sobey’s Pharmacy. The representative will speak about common interactions between drugs, food and health conditions. On September 17 at 10.30 a.m., the Centre will hold a Blood Pressure Clinic in conjunction with Park Place Manor. A registered nurse will take your blood pressure and answer your questions on the topic. Feel Better course If you’ve been feeling sluggish lately and wonder whatever happened to that youthful feeling, this course will help take you back. Several things have to come together for us to feel good, starting with better sleep and having more energy. This course teaches you how to get better sleep, feel happier, have more energy and confidence. It’s an opportunity for you to learn to get out more, enjoy better relationships and help others. These enjoyable 90-minute sessions run over eight installments and is called Living Life to the Full. It will run on Tuesdays from October 7 to November 25 from 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. To register contact Carol Lever 905- 841-3977 x2211 or email at [email protected]. The cost is $150. Important dates Here are two important dates to put on your calendar: Tickets are on sale now so don’t be disappointed. On Sunday, October 5 at 2.30 p.m. the Centre welcomes the York Region Police Male Chorus and on Friday, October 10 the Silver Stars will have a Murder Mystery which have proven to be very popular in the past. More information is available at the Reception Desk.

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By Brock Weir input. That, however, has been dealt with Tom Mrakas has long had a ringside and is a matter for the history books. seat to politics here in Aurora. Looking ahead, there will have to For four years, his wife, Alison be efforts to work with builders and Collins-Mrakas, served as Councillor developers towards what Mr. Mrakas from 2006 – 2010 before continuing describes as “smart growth” including her political involvement through her green initiatives on the inside and column in The Auroran, and he has outside of new homes, and taking an seen how things work firsthand. Now, active hand in guiding “the way we however, he wants to get truly into the want Aurora to look like in the future.” thick of it himself, throwing himself “If we put things in place and we into the ring as a Council candidate for attract people that we want to be here, the October 27 Municipal Election. I think that is the best way to do it,” While Ms. Collins-Mrakas was he says. “If you are giving incentives sitting either at the table, or in the for certain businesses and certain public gallery at Town Hall, Mr. developments, then it is going to help Mrakas, a contractor and painter by everywhere. Right now, the downtown trade, felt some degree of frustration is a ghost town. Go there on a Sunday on not being able to throw in his own and no one is there. Everyone is just two-cents – effectively, that is – on driving through.” matters that were before the Town. Keeping people moving, on the other “I am tired of screaming at the TV, hand, is part of his vision for another first of all,” he says with a laugh on why area of Town, particularly at the he entered the race. “Secondly, I figure I Aurora GO Station. A regular observer Tom Mrakas filed his candidacy papers at Town Hall on July 9. can’t criticise unless I throw my name of what he calls “the Frogger dance” Auroran photo by Brock Weir into the hat and decide to put myself in of people trying to cross the street, the position to make decisions. I think seemingly running for their lives as the best way to go about it is to run for soon as they get off the train, he says he COMING EVENTS Council and bring my ideas forward as would like to explore the possibility of a small businessman.” building a “skywalk” for pedestrians. From page 14 are on sale now at the Aurora Seniors’ Centre. Get your There wasn’t any one particular “That way the traffic can tickets early to avoid disappointment. auroraarboretum.ca. issue that caused him to jump up and continuously flow and you can continue SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 down from the comfort of his own to walk over safely,” he says. “Right MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 The Aurora Cultural Centre presents a celebration of Eating Disorders of York Region’s Riverwalk Wellness Culture Days with free events from 12 noon to 4 p.m. Celebrate living room, he says. Rather, a degree now, as it stands, you either have to Centres presents: Recovering from Eating Disorders: Tools One Book One Aurora with a lively celebration of Persian of dissatisfaction with how decisions walk over to Industrial Parkway or you and Techniques for Individuals, Family and Friends with Culture – dance, music and tasty treats from 12 – 2 p.m. at no Marilyn Reisz and Megan Fearnley from 7 – 8.30 p.m. at 15213 charge. Discover new art exhibitions with Parchment Pieces, were being made, spurred him into the have to walk over to Wells Street and Yonge Street, Suite 11, Aurora. This workshop is designed to a solo exhibition and sale by William Lottering, and Cutting game. cross the street.” provide individuals with eating disorders with information, Edge, a collaborative exhibition and sale by Jane Geard, OSA, tools and techniques to help recover from disordered and Christine Kim. Artists’ Reception from 1 – 4 p.m. “My point of view is to just make a For Aurora voters who might be eating. $20 per person. decision and stop referring it,” he says. more familiar with his wife, Mr. Registration is required. Visit www.edoyr.com/ “Unless you have absolutely no idea Mrakas says they do have some key support-programs. what is going on, there is no reason to differences. While she is more policy FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 refer. You have the information in front driven, he sees many shades of grey Eating Disorders of of you to make a decision and I think in issues, he says, particularly when York Region will host a series of events today to that is what the people want – to have it comes to environmental matters. mark tomorrow’s Culture people there making decisions instead He finds inspiration in people who Days Celebrations, including an Art Gallery of letting staff do all the decision- have given back to their communities Open House at 15213 Yonge making.” from all political stripes, making a Street from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., and three film screenings Case in point, he says, were the hours difference in the places they want to at 12 noon, 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. of staff and Council time devoted last live. * * * * year to three trees in the area of a “This is where we live,” he says of The Aurora Seniors private homeowner’s backyard, and municipal politics. “Whether it is how Association welcomes you to the annual Country & arguments from neighbours – and many bags of garbage we’re picking Western Dance from 7.30 from Councillors – to protect them up or the emerald ash borer, it is p.m. to 10.30 p.m. at the Aurora Seniors’ Centre (90 after an outcry from residents. 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For more information, visit www.aurora.ca/ribfest or call 905-726-4762

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