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At Civic Centre next Thursday Meeting on Hungry Hollow trails set CYNTHIA GAMBLE Staff Writer After $93,000 for trails was added into the 2007 capital budget, the Town will begin a new phase to develop the Hungry Hollow Ravine trails with a public meeting next Thursday night (March 1). The meeting will focus on accessways to Hungry Hollow, in particular those in the areas from Cedarvale Park south to Mountainview Road. The meeting will be held at the Civic Centre, 1 Halton Hills Drive, at 7 p.m., with public information available for viewing starting at 6:30 p.m. A second public meeting for the area east of Mountainview Road to Willow Park will be held Tuesday, April 3. Together with community partners-- POWER (Protect Our Water and Environmental Resources) Willow Park Ecology Centre and Save Our Ravines who were actively involved in the development of the Hungry Hollow Management Plan-- staff will present information on what has been done to date in the ravine, future plans for monitoring, communications and trails, and ways for the local neighbours to become involved through monitoring or restoration planting projects. "The Hungry Hollow Ravine is a fantastic natural resource for the Town" said Recreation and Parks Department Director Terry Alyman. "The neighbourhood meetings are vital to the community's awareness of Hungry Hollow, and the residents' input into the implementation of the Management Plan is critical to its success." Display material will be available at the public meetings and additional background material can be found on the Town's website, www.haltonhills.ca/Rec_Studies_Do cuments.asp or by calling Warren Harris, Manager of Parks and Open Space at 905-873 2601, ext 2274. (Cynthia Gamble can be reached at cgamble@independentfreepress.com) A great skate Skaters Darren Pennock, right, and Mark Hayward, of Georgetown, were part of the Skate in the Park at Dark team that raised more than $10,000 for sick children recently. They, along with Tim Fielding, Aldo Campitelli and Tony Hayward, also of Georgetown, skated 1,000 laps around Brampton's Gage Park in support of Sunshine Dreams for Kids. Pennock skated the entire 1,000 laps while the others combined to also skate 1,000 laps, about the distance between Brampton and Montreal. Photo by George Beshiri