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Not intended to solicit individuals currently under agency contract. www.DougandAngela.ca www.barronshome.net Aurora’s Community Newspaper CMCA Vol. 20 No. 48 905-727-3300 TheAuroran.com FREE Week of September 17, 2020 AUDITED APPLY NOW for September 2021 Visit us virtually: www.pickeringcollege.on.ca/auroran York Foot Orthoticsspecializing & Bracing in FOOT PAIN/KNEE PAIN • Custom Orthotics We continue to provide • Custom Knee Braces a clean and safe environment during • Ankle Braces COVID-19. Flexible hours, call me to book your FAST appointment. TURNAROUND in 3 days if needed. OFF TO SCHOOL – Grade 2 student Ethan Galaski and mom Nancy arrive at St. Joseph Catholic Elementary School on Thursday afternoon at the start of the 2020-2021 school year. This first day back at St. Joseph was an orientation for students and parents on new York Foot Orthotics and Bracing 14 Wellington Street East, Suite 4, Aurora protocols designed to keep students safe in school amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Auroran photo by Brock Weir 905-841-3838 [email protected] Parents closely monitoring numbers as classes resume MUSIC LESSONS alike across York Region as they re- procedures, protocols, health screenings in person and online! By Brock Weir learned the ropes to safely re-enter and hygiene measures necessary to school in this present “new normal.” allow in-class learning to continue in a Ask about our complimentary Nancy and Ethan Galaski had their It was a day filled with questions, safe manner. GROUP LESSONS masks firmly in place as they left for St. some of which were unthinkable this But the numbers of new cases 905.900.0094 Joseph Catholic Elementary School on time last year, but they are necessary of COVID-19 across York Region [email protected] Thursday morning for Ethan’s first day as the community comes to grips with and Ontario are on the rise and of Grade 2. 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Enchanting backyard oasis! 15105 Yonge Street, suite 100, aurora, on l4g 1m3 $1,278,888 $1,998,888 $3,298,888 (2 Blocks south of Wellington on the East Side) Page 2 THE AURORAN, Thursday, September 17, 2020 Metrolinx continues design work on underpass to “minimize” impact on property owners earmarked for an incoming cannabis GO reaching out retailer. “in the next Over the summer months, Metrolinx has been soliciting online few weeks” feedback on their plans from the community and a virtual public By Brock Weir meeting is now set for “late October/ early November” to provide an update Metrolinx is forging ahead with on the grade separation, according design work the planned Wellington to Metrolinx’s Matt Llewellyn. Street East traffic underpass with an “This grade separation is…a eye to “minimize” impacts to nearby critical upgrade that will safely enable property owners. future service increases, such as two- This past winter, dozens of way all-day GO Train service,” said residents filled the auditorium of Llewellyn. “With trains travelling in the Aurora Community Centre for each direction as frequently as every a public open house on Metrolinx’s 15 minutes, trains could be going plans to expand GO Transit across through the crossing approximately the province, including plans for all- every seven minutes. By building day two-way train service along GO’s a road underpass for pedestrians, Barrie corridor. cyclists and vehicles, we will not only An integral part of the plan is the significantly increase safety – but construction of a traffic underpass also convenience. No more waiting on Wellington Street East at the rail for trains in order to get across the UPCOMING MILESTONE – To commemorate the 40th anniversary of Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope, tracks. people from across Canada are due to set out with their own activities this Sunday for the annual crossing to ensure the steady flow of Terry Fox Ron. Aurora’s run is being spearheaded by Greg Smith and Robin Taylor Smith and there are traffic once all-day service is in place. “The underpass is currently a number of ways to still get involved. To sign up, or to sponsor a local participant, visit terryfox.org. But the underpass will not just in early design and Metrolinx is Auroran photo by Glenn Rodger impact the area immediately north of assessing design options to minimize the GO Station; construction of the private property acquisitions. We’re underpass will continue substantially doing this by providing alternative further east and west of the site, with access to properties rather than full the proposed eastbound entrance to acquisition as much as possible. We the underpass near Walton Drive. will be reaching out to impacted Among the area property owners property owners in the next few speaking out against the plan – weeks and will negotiate in good faith from the disruption construction to find a resolution or settlement for would cause to their businesses to property owners.” eliminating street-level traffic – were Metrolinx declined to elaborate www.tholiver.com the owners of York Medi Spa, which on what “alternative access to recently moved to their Wellington properties” entails from their 905.727.4258 Street location from Newmarket, as perspective “given the commercially well as York National Realty, whose sensitive nature” of the conversations 1924 - 95 Years Serving York Region - 2019 premises near the rail line are now around land acquisitions. THE AURORAN, Thursday, September 17, 2020 Page 3 FRANK’S ORGANIC GARDEN – Magna founder Frank Stronach is pictured above in the grocery area of his new venture, Frank’s Organic Garden, a new dining and shopping concept set to launch this fall in the Smart Centres plaza at Wellington Street East and First Commerce Drive. (Below) The dining area includes a restaurant space, bar, private dining room and patio. Auroran photos by Brock Weir Stronach brings healthy food options to Aurora with Frank’s Organic 2020 Garden COLOURS By Brock Weir Over the past year, Mr. Stronach has been assembling a team of chefs – or, in OF FALL Frank Stronach has left an indelible his words, “food scientists” – to develop imprint on Aurora. From his time menus, and a roster of local farms and steering Magna International from a suppliers that share this philosophy, tool and die company to an automotive in order to bring signature dishes and Concert giant, to his decades of giving back to the products to reality.