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Close-knit Caledon wins honour for second year
March 06, 2009 DANIEL DALESTAFF REPORTER
In the summer of 2008, a group of bored teenagers in Caledon started to do what groups of bored teenagers in small towns are expected to do: cause adults needless aggravation. For more than a month, says Matthew Raekelboom, 16, they wreaked havoc with spray paint, defacing schools, businesses and signs with graffiti.
And then, Caledon being Caledon, a group of teens made them stop.
"Everyone said, `We're going to stop it. Not in our town,'" Raekelboom said. "Everyone found out who it was, and that's what we told them. If people want to do graffiti, there's no way we can stop them. But do it somewhere else. We want to keep this town like it is."

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