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January is Crime Stoppers Awareness Month and now's the perfect opportunity to salute those citizens who volunteer their time answering phones to take tips or help fundraise. Crime Stoppers is just one of many programs which provide an opportunity for volunteers to work with the Halton Regional Police Service in malting the community a safer place in which to live. While the number of tips may be down this year, the program that offers rewards to people who pro vide crime-solving information is no less successful. Without it, many cases would still remain unsolved. It's interesting to note that most people who January is Crime call in tips that lead to Stoppers arrests don't Awareness Month even collect and now's the reward the perfect money. It just goes opportunity to to show how salute those beneficial a citizens who program is volunteer their that allows to time to take tips people name culprits to help fundraise. in wrongdo ings without identifying themselves. So keep up the good work volun teers, and, callers, keep those tips coming in. We, the community, need you. E N V IR O N M E N TA LLY THREATENED SPECIES: PSSSSSSST... Oakville incident among top weather stories · The bizarre freak lightning deaths of two Toronto men at Bronte Creek Provincial Park last summer were among the Top Ten wild and wacky weather events o f 2001 by C anada's favourite weather guy, David Phillips, an Environment Canada senior climatologist. Rounding out the Top Ten was the incidence o f freak lightning deaths during a quiet summer in which four people were killed -- one in the sun after a storm, one in his home during a storm and two sheltering under a tree. The latter rare double fatality occurred at Bronte Creek Provincial Park where two Toronto men, Eugene Henriques, 46, and Manuel Da Silva, 42, were at a family picnic and took refuge under a tree from a mid-Sunday afternoon storm. At the top of Phillips' list was the coast-to-coast drought that saw fanners' crops wither and which began with British Columbia's driest-ever winter. At No. 2 was eastern Canada's never-ending winter that saw record snowfall and bitter temperatures -- and three months without a serious thaw. Toronto endured a 104-day stretch of snow cover, the longest in 130 years, while St. John's, Newfoundland saw action from almost every winter storm in North America with almost 500 million tonnes of snowfall -- enough to fill three SkyDomes. No. 3 was the hot, humid summer when almost every city exceeded its average number o f hot days (above 30°C) and Winnipeg's humidex hit 46°C causing citizens to become ill. No. 4 was the year's biggest non-event as dire pre dictions of the hot dry weather causing a "national inferno" ended with a tame wildfire season for the third straight year. Bad air days took No. 5 with the Toronto-Windsor corridor suffering smog advisories for 23 days, twice the num ber of any year since 1988. No. 6 was an active hurricane season in which Newfoundland was deluged with rain, St. John's saw wind gusts throw 14 kg rocks hundreds of metres inland, and the Confederation Bridge was closed for the first time. No. 7 was winter recreation; best in winter in the East, and worst in the West with warm, dry conditions at ski resorts. No. 8 was B.C.'s big blow when a week of powerful storms in December toppled century-old trees in Stanley Park. At No. 9 was the globe's hot year, the ninth straight "warmer-than-average" year in Canada and the 23rd consecutive year of above-normal global tempera tures and second warmest on record. Pssssst.. is a compendium of observations around Oakville and we're open to contributions from the publk. Just fax 905-337-5567 or e-mail rjerred>a!haltonsearch.com. PAGES OF THE PAST 50 years ago Township Council on Monday decided to dis cuss a Bronte-Trafalgar settlement this Friday and to meet with Provincial Government officials on Jan. 21. Invitations to attend a meeting to discuss the Township's future are to be extended to the Deputy Minister of Municipal Affairs, the Provincial Director of Planning, the Oakville-Trafalgar Planning Board, Gore and Storrie, engineering con sultants, it was decided. The session is called for the evening of Jan. 21, and will be open to the public. Council decided to tackle the problem of arriv ing at a settlement with Bronte for property within the village at a meeting on Friday. A request by Bronte Solicitor F.O. Gallagher for a list of properties to be included in the settlement was considered fair, and the Clerk was advised to forward the list. --Jan. 10,1952 - The Oakville Record-Star That recommendation was to have a rider call ing on the town to commit itself to a Centennial Centre location - but the committee members decided against that course. Deputy Reeve Harry Barrett said plans for a Centennial Centre auditorium go back to 1962. "To depart from that now would detract from the whole Centennial plan," he said. -- Jan. 11,1972 - The Daily Journal Record 20 Years Ago Local businessmen appear none to happy with the recently-introduced postal rate hikes, especially since most cannot foresee any improvement in the quality of service. The new rates, which went into effect Jan. 1, call for a 17 per cent increase in second-class and pub lishers' rates. What has most area businessmen steaming however, is the jump in first-class mail from 17 to 30 cents. "We're not as hard hit as the average consumer but we'll have to suffer like any other business that deals in first-class mail," said Kent Milford, direc tor of finance for Clifford Elliot and Associates Ltd., a publisher of various periodicals. "I think the first-class raise is obscene and I have no perception of an improvement in service." -- Jan. 8,1982 - The Oakville Beaver 30 Years Ago Oakville's planned 800-seat arts centre and audi torium won't be built this year, and when it is built, it might not be located on the favoured Centennial Centre site. Town Council's Development Committee last night decided it didn't have enough information to make a firm decision on the centre and recom mended that the Council ask the Parks and Recreation Commission to conduct a further study into the need and possible locations for the facility. uuu Taken from the archives of the OakvBle Beaver including stories from The Oakville Record-Star, The Oakville- Trafalgar Journal, the Oakville Journal Record ji and the Oakville Beaver. ...