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Vol. 3 No. 9 Week of Dec 10, 2002 905-727-3300 Building ready; staff starts move The dream started to become a when the structure, battered and reality for the Aurora Chamber of beaten, fell to the wrecker's ham- Commerce Monday as staffers mer. began moving into their brand new The late Councillor Earl Stewart facility at the corner of Yonge Street started things rolling when he and Industrial Parkway South. obtained a developer's sales trailer Sometime in January, the and had it moved to the Yonge Chamber will hold an official open- Street site. ing for their new headquarters, a far On May 1, 1985, the town entered cry from the used subdivision sales into a lease with the province for trailer they had been occupying. the corner property and sub-leased About the only similarity between it to the chamber. the two, is that both buildings sat In July, 1985, the Chamber hired on the same site. its first employee, Kim Murray, a It was August 29, 1985, when the 16-year-old Aurora High School doors to that sales trailer were offi- student, for the summer months. cially opened, and June of this year Please see page 2 Repairs “in a nick of time” Briefly Workers busy renovating the his- The area around the perimeter of Historian John McIntyre, who toric Church Street School have the building was dug out to allow says the work is being done in a laid bare the reason the building workers to shore up the founda- nick of time, comments. It's time to get lit stands, and at first glance, it looks tion, but what they found didn't "When the building was erected Don't forget to turn on your Christmas lights Thursday, December 12th. like it shouldn't be. look like a foundation at all. in 1886, its builders followed the The Selection Committee will be touring the streets of Aurora in search practice which was standard at of the top 10 decorated homes. the time. They dug down below If you would like to notify the town of your address or if you would like the frost line and laid a foundation to nominate someone in your neighbourhood call (905) 727-3123 ext. of irregularly shaped fieldstones 530 or E-mail [email protected], and be sure to leave the held together by soft lime mortar," address! he said. Now's the time to get lit. "The exposed area above ground also was of fieldstones; Greg's moving however, here the builders used a type of "false pointing" to make it Greg Sorbara has had a part-time constituency office in Aurora since look as if they had used regularly he became the MPP for Vaughan-King-Aurora. Once a month, people shaped stone blocks. could visit him on the second floor of the Aurora Community Centre. "Ashlar masonry, which consists Tough getting up the stairs for some people, he learned, so he need- of carefully hewn blocks of stone, ed a first floor location. would have been much more You may visit Greg January 8th in his new digs, the councillors' lounge, expensive. Presumably to save located on the main floor behind the Council Chambers in the Town money, architect Thomas Hall, 100 John West Way. Kennedy called for the use of Following the January date, his office will be open on the first fieldstone, but with decorative Wednesday of each month from 9 a.m. until noon. work to make it look as if a more expensive technique had been Everybody sings employed. Dr. G.W. Williams Secondary School will be the scene of a communi- "There is nothing inherently ty concert involving four schools Wednesday, Dec. 11. wrong with a fieldstone foundation Bands, choirs and ensembles from Aurora Grove, Highview and as long as drainage does not Regency Acres Public Schools, along with talent from Williams, will become a problem. Unfortunately, entertain in the cafetorium between 7 and 9.30 p.m. it did become a problem in recent years. Eavestroughs and down- Five bucks gets you in unless you're a senior, student or child under pipes were allowed to deteriorate 12. Those groups will pay $2. to the point where rainwater no Proceeds will be shared equally among the schools to benefit their longer drained away from the music programs. building. "To make matters worse, asphalt Speaking of singing paving was laid to the north and Not to be outdone by their counterparts, the Upper Canada east with little thought about Chordsmen, the York Highlands Chorus (better known as the Sweet Repairing the foundation of the historic Church Street drainage. Large quantities of Adelines) presents the Spirit of Christmas Sunday, December 15. School may "just be in the nick of time", according to his- water drained off the pavement There will be two shows at the Madsen Greenhouse on Bayview into the ground surrounding the torian John McIntyre. Workers uncovered the rickety foun- Parkway, Newmarket, at matinee at 2 p.m. and an evening performance foundations. dation last week and are now busy reshoring the foundation at 7 p.m. In Aurora, tickets are available at R & R Revisited, 75 Mary "Because the mortar which held to extend the life of the building. Auroran photos by Ron Street, Unit 3. Please see page 19 Wallace Proceeds will go to the Aurora and Newmarket Food Banks. AURORAN Week of Dec 10, 2002 - 3 Five-storey building proposed for Yonge At a half-hour public plan- reviewed during the site the building will lease it to ning meeting last week, plan process. Allied Credit, but the owner Aurora Council approved Council members has requested some flexibil- two rezoning applications, expressed pleasure with the ity to lease to others if Allied which, if completed, will see proposal as an improvement does not require the whole a new retail/residential com- to Yonge Street and revital- building. plex on Yonge Street and an ization of the downtown In order to have some con- office building on Industrial core area. trol over the number of Parkway South. The second application future tenants staff recom- Both projects are still sub- was much simpler. It was for mended a minimum floor ject to site plan approval. an office complex on eight area per unit, which would The Yonge Street develop- acres of land on the east restrict the number of ten- ment is located on the for- side of the Industrial ants to 10. mer Ivan Daniel property on Parkway South, adjacent to It is proposed to build a the west side of the street the Aurora Hydro building. one-storey office building adjacent to the Petro A public meeting was held with a floor area of 50,000 All donations will be given Canada station at Aurora in March with council square feet in the first to the Aurora Lions Club Heights Drive. approving the rezoning phase, with a second build- to help support their It is currently used as a car application as a single occu- ing of 30,000 square feet to Christmas Gift Drive. leasing business and bus pant building to be used by be located to the rear of the Gifts needed for all ages storage, as well as for resi- Allied International Credit property. dential purposes. Corporation. The parking area is The property covers more As a result of changes in designed for 350 spaces for than 11 acres with frontage ownership/builder arrange- the first phase and an addi- on Yonge and Aurora ments there was a need to tional 225 for the second Heights. The rear portion of make a minor amendment phase with two accesses to the property borders to the zoning bylaw. the site from Industrial Tannery Creek and is in the The company that owns Parkway. flood plain. Proposed is a five-storey building containing commer- cial uses on the first floor with a maximum of 64 Back Pain? FamilyFamily dwelling units above. Andrew Sanderson, opera- Aurora, ON – According to a recently released back pain relief report, most back pain sufferers have no idea how to eliminate their pain. tor of a business across the Some use heat, others ice. From sleeping on the floor, to pillows street from the proposed underneath the legs, back pain relief techniques vary. 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