A Dream Came True

There's a story on page 22 of The Auroran of interest to those paying attention to the Melodrama of Church Street School.

It's a feature about the first performer in the  "second wave of  Great Artist Piano Series at the Centre", the brainchild of award winning musicians and Aurora residents Bonnie and Norbert Kraft.   As performers themselves,Mrs Kraft said "Hosting a concert series like this has been a life-long dream"

After twenty years of touring Canada and the world, the couple encountered many local sponsors along the way that dedicated themselves to opening up their homes, giving concerts,and fostering musicians,and once established they wanted to return the favour.

"It was my dream and what I dearly wanted to do." she said. "If I can play a part and help in the process (of introducing musicians
to local audiences)I feel  that I am in a small way helping live music stay alive in our community.

That's nice.

The missing piece of the story is that Bonnie Kraft is a member of the Culture Centre Board.  Our heritage building, Church Street School,  has been the key to Ms. Kraft realising  her life- long dream.

The first thing that  board did was exclude the town's museum from the  building  renovated to serve that purpose.

The second  was to use town funds to purchase a grand piano. It cost thousands of dollars .We gave it to them.

 So Ms Kraft  realized a life-long dream, not by sponsoring concerts in her own home and fostering musicians. As a member of a board,  which  used  a  building  intended for another purpose  and town funds to purchase a piano under an agreement that  in no way represents the interest of  the  community represented by the other party to the contract. 

How's that for a stroke of  incredible good fortune?

Where else can a person go to realize a life long dream on someone else's  nickel?

It should be the town's new logo.

Come to Aurora ! The place where lifelong dreams  are made to come  true at public expense.

Maybe Neil Diamond could be persuaded to dedicate his song to our town.

We could send the Town Crier forth calling to people with lifelong   dreams.  "Come On Up. Have we got a deal for you. We will give you oodles of cash,buildings restored at great expense, rent free, free, maintenance, heat and light and controlled atmosphere.  We will ask nothing of you.

Of course we won't talk too much about the shifty way the museum and the Historical Society were shoved out of the way to make room for an indidual's lifelong dream to be fulfilled.