A Final Look at 2007
August

Peel Chair Emil Kolb won the Mayor's Challenge at the Peel-Dufferin Plowing Match in August. He received the trophy from outgoing Queen of the Furrow Jessica Currie.

The month opened with OPP arresting four people in connection with the discovery in June of a body in the area of Duffy's Lane and Patterson Sideroad.

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The Credit Valley Conservation Authority (CVCA) announced the commencement of the Natural Areas Inventory, thanks to a $197,700 grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation.

"Given climate change and the tremendous development pressures in the Credit River Watershed and Region of Peel will be facing over the next several years, it is important, in maintaining a healthy environment for all, that the existence of natural areas be known and their functions understood," commented Brampton West- Mississauga MPP Vic Dhillon.

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People fighting the proposed cellular tower in Wildfield received a boost.

In an 8-0 vote, council agreed to send a planning and development report to Industry Canada opposing the proposed location of a tower by Bell Mobility Inc. 12061 The Gore Rd., just north of Mayfield Road.

Town planners commented in their report the proposed tower would be visually incompatible with the historic hamlet.

They suggested Bell Mobility pursue a different location for the proposed tower.

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Dufferin - Caledon MP David Tilson made the announcement there would be $230,000 provided to Caledon Community Services to provide language training to newcomers to Canada.

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The IngleWoodstock music festival was set for late in the month, and Town council lent a hand by waving some of the fees related to the event.

Council granted the Village of Inglewood Association (VIA) an exemption from the $2,500 exhibition licence fee. Council also asked staff to review opportunities for further exemption of Townrelated expenses.

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Town council approved the construction of the temporary 1.5-metre wide asphalt walkway along the west side of Airport Roadin Caledon East.

About $1 million in damage resulted after a massive, devastating fire almost destroyed an Albion farm. The Dean Family homestead on Airport Road, south of King Road, lost three silos and seven other barns and buildings during the morning blaze Aug. 15.

The weather was hot and dry and there was a strong wind out of the northwest. The fire rapidly spread to four neighbouring barns and four neighbouring silos.

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Efforts were under way among some local parents, with the support of the Town of Caledon, to launch a girls' hockey program in town this fall.

At the end of the previous hockey season, Tom Cowan, past-president of Town of Caledon Minor Hockey Association, and Bob Symons were at the Orangeville arena watching the final playoffs and celebrations of the Orangeville Tigers Girls Hockey Association, that their daughters play in.

Both had wondered why there was no girls' hockey in Caledon and they started to put the puck in motion to rectify that.