Ideas and stories needed for community mapping plan

Imagine Caledon - the place where you live. What do you see? What do you smell? What memories come to mind? Are you out for a walk or inside one of your favourite places? No matter which answer you've given, you likely have ideas of what Caledon means to you.

Caledon Community Mapping Project invites individuals and community groups to participate in a "creative mapping" workshop. Organizers would like to hear your ideas for what unique natural and cultural features should be included on our map. Or maybe you have stories or photos to share.

Caledon Community Mapping Project is a project of citizens, local groups and youth working together to chart the unique natural and cultural features of Caledon.

Several workshops are being planned through December. They are interested in having members of local groups participate in one of these sessions. They are keen to come to your organization or monthly meeting to facilitate a session or give a presentation.

They need your involvement to make this project a success. Your stories, ideas, photos and special places will be used by a local artist to create a colourful folding map. This map will be distributed throughout the town to celebrate Caledon's unique natural and cultural features, creating a lasting legacy and showing others why Caledon is "the Greenest Town in Ontario" and a great place to live.

A local Headwaters artist will be hired to draw or paint the finished map.

For information about the artist competition, to find out about hosting a workshop or request a submission form, please contact Deanna Coop at 905-452-7596 or deanna@ caledoncountryside.org. Submission forms will be available at all seven branches of the Caledon Public Library.

Caledon Community Mapping Project is partnership of Caledon Environmental Advisory Committee (CEAC), Caledon Countryside Alliance (CCA) and Heritage Caledon. They gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Metcalf Foundation, Friends of the Greenbelt Foundation, McLean Foundation, Town of Caledon Community Green Fund, and project partners.