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Our Maunties carr By STEPHEN lllilts of The Ilxa miner They dont ride horses and they seldom sport their famous red and black riding fltll fits In Harrie theyre lowprofile police but the Mounties are here Sgt Adrian tloores Barrie lttll tom mander says Mounties here are often overlooked Many people dont realize we re here said Sgt Moons They hear about the RIMI but they don realile we have liar rie detachment Even though weve been here for some time they dont associate us with their town People often think we come in for while and then leave The Royal Tanadian Mounted Police open ed detachment herein 1074 Several area offices were opened then because these areas wercn ieccivtiiL the attention they deserved from the federal police said Sgt Moons tutside infant and Quebec loiinties assume general policing role lhey replace provtncuil police and municipal police departments In rural areas and small towns In Ontario and Quebec lttMl are more ltl volvtd In investigation and background work HNIilttIIMENI Ithlltlly Drug law enforcement and investigation consumes much of their time border ptiints sum Windsor Sarina and lort lliie customs and immigration law tnltlttttnttll is mayor RCMP ftinction In small towns such as liitltlf however Mounties provide investigative assistance to local police and to government agencies Its an entirely different aspect of police work III Ontario said Sgt Moores iirl he said the RtMl activity III small town dil fcis from work in larger ccntrc such as loronto Most of otir work is ditig enforcement We concentrate otir efforts on trafficking It the traffickers and importers you want III cities this is the ach cocaine said Sgt Adrian Moores Ba Sgt yloores lts lXLUIYlmE more and more popular In large areas But it is very expen sive habit It costs $30 to $40 for each fix You arent going to find that In small town The average person is not able to afford It In an area such as this Dufferin and Simr coe touniies the most popular drugs youll find are marijuana hashish hashish Oll LSI and speed said Sgt Moores Police in Toronto Hamilton and London are also faced with pharmaceutical abuse which does not appear to have spread to small Cities on large scale he said In the large centres many persons forge prescriptions or he to doctors about ailments to obtain painkillers WORK ITII lIlIIIR FflRtIIS Harrie lttfyll work with municipal police forces and provincial police in drug investiga tions Intil recently the WM and Barrie ttll shared ii drug sqtiad UPI deCIded to conduct Its own drug investigations Large scale drug trafficking rings are usually handled by the Mounties in co operation with local forces said Sgt Moores tTndercover officers are imported for nia ior investigations he said These operations require pltiiiirclotlies policemen who are not familiar to local residents While ltarrie detachment deals mostly with drugs it also has two men assigned to general investigation These are the men who investigate viola tions of federal law including immigration income tax and even migratory bird regula tioiis Although several hundred kilometres from the nearest border crossing the Barrie area has its share of customs and immigra tion work During harvest season for example llolland Marsh farmers hire transient field workers RtMl officers keep watch over the operations to ensure there are no illegal immigrants there The local RCMI detachment conducts in vcsiigtitions and handles stimmoiis and sub poenas for many government agenctes said Sgt Moores It also provides assistance to area police forces RCMP have nationwide network of specialists in various fields from drugs to commercial fraud investigation he said Mountie expertise is available to help other police forces he said Sgt Moores said RCMP training is becom ing more specialized No longer are horseback training and marching required courses BECOME VISIBLE IIIIRE Although RCMP recruits spend only six months in police school compared with the previous ninemonth training periods young officers today are better equipped for police work said Sgt Moores When graduated in the midsixties wasnt as wellprepared as the young recruits today Im very impressed with these recruits They spend more time tin police schooli concentrating on presentday pro blems theyll have to face in their work Sgt Moores says Mountie training is tough but its not as gruelling as legend tells it Its not an easy program But they arent out to break you as many people seem to think Theyrejust trying to prepare you Sgt Moores has just recently assumed command of Barries sixman RCMP detach ment Under his command Mounties may be more visible in this community Unlike his predecessors Sgt Moores sports uniform plan to wear uniform regularly It doesnt hurt to let the people of Barrie know they have an RCMP detachment here He admits however it may take local peo ple by surprise tntario residents are not familiar with the brown and blue RCMP working uniform said Sgt Moores Barrie area residents may not know what it is when they see it added Sgt Moores Jokingly It rrie RMP commander Examiner Photo the examiner Thursday Nov 15 1979 57 low profile Population in some of these places dropping in others rising Influx of new residents By RICHARD THOMAS The Examiner For the past six years the population of Simcoe County has increased steadily but officials with the county and the ministry of revenues assessment division here say the mnumbers are tapering off her this period says county clerk Al Pelletier about 37000 people have come to live iii Sinicoe County but each year the number of newcomers is getting smaller Since 1973 when the number was about 11000 the influx of new residents has declin ed by about 2000 to 3000 each year Pelletier says and newcomers this year totalled about 3000 Bruce Fraser assessment commissioner with the ministry in Barrie confirms that numbers are indeed levelling off There will still be increases there is no question about that but not like in the past 10 yeais The fallout from Toronto is slowing down Fraser says as evidenced by towns such as Bradford in the countys southern half where the population until this year grew at rate of about 600 or 700a year This year the towns population grew by about 179 persons to total of 6789 ac cording to figures released by the assess ment office which still makes it the municipality with the highest number of new residents next to Barrie ur city is tip about 1000 people for total of 36566 ne of the reasons why Bradfords population growth has slowed this year is due not only to the fact that the town is run ning out of serviceable land but that people are becoming less willing to live far from their jobs because of the energy crisis says Fraser The influx of newcomers is also being cur tailed in the county he says because several of the townships are no longer giv mg severances as easily as they once did and the amount of building land has been cut back According to the assessment offices statistics the increases in population this year have generally taken place in the larger municipalities while in most of the smaller villages and towns they actually decreased ollingwtxids population is tip 83 to 1330 Midlands has risen by 96 to 11822 while the number in Wasaga Beach has increased by 90 to 4000 The incrrease in Pcnetangtiishene has been modest iii bit inging the total to 5401 ESPR PIilRPI lI Among the townships esprii leads the way with an increase of 178 bringing its population tip to 5785 followed by lnnisfil whose population now stands at 10178 an increase of 126 Flos ro and Medontc are also among those who show increases ranging from about 40 to 90 new residents with Essa the exception showing decrease of about 035i The town of Alliston and all of the villages except for Tottenham have all suffered drops in population ranging from seven and 11 in the cases of toldw ater and IIlmvale to 43 and 36 in the cases of Stayner and Alliston Although many of the newcomers may be settling in the larger cities such as Barrie or Drillia there may also be some inoyenient there from the smaller villages which ac counts for their drop in population says Fraser ne of the reasons he sins is that main to Simcoe tapering off of the small villages industrial and coin niercial growth is slow and the young nitist go elsewhere to find jobs lther factors may also be combining to cause the drop in population in the smaller villages he says such as the fact that peo ple today are betteiable to plan their families and some are not even having children In the cases of communities such as film vale Stiiyiier and Creemore there is no high birth rate to offset the number of deaths Most of the population is made up of retired people anyway he says There are less people living in home to day liraser says and over the past 15 years the average number has dropped from it to 27 and often lower There is also tendency among children who have been living at home to seek their own acconimtxlation as soon as they start earning an income he says The minute they get that first pay che que they are out looking for an apartment which means lot more units but less peo ple in them And in the case of some smaller niunicipiilit ics such as ookstown for exam plc the lack of services such as sewers make it impossible to expand the number of housing units to accommodate those looking for their own home says Fraser In the case of Essa Township however where the population has dropped by about 0351 from last year this is due to sizeable drop in the numbers at Fft Rordcn Fraser says In cspra Township where the popula tion growth of 178 is the highest among the townships residential development has been on the increase Fraser says 11 Jim W4 Rookie aldermen reflect on year Iiy DENNIS NIIIIICII of The Examiner Its been year now since tlircc llarric residents took the plunge Into the municipal political front for the first time ever Jim Shirley Meg Ultonal and Doug ltig ges battled their way into aldermanic post lions following last Novembers lllJtllt cloc litin struggle ld Dorian larkcr of Ward ilso began new term of office btit ld larkei had already years of experience behind her after tciiipoixiry absence from the political front ld Iiiii Shirley says he felt comfortable at city council meetings right troni the start because he lltlll been llt oly ed itli the Greater Ranic tlitiiiiber of tomnicicc and was thus familiar tilt the issues Frustrations are very much part of be itig tin alderman ld Shirley told The Ev anitiicr In the general committee system sonic decisions are made by council itliotit ftill information being available he said Ald Shirleys ftill comments on the general committee system are contained in ii Letter to the Editor today More of the items could be handled by lt or three per sons getting together and coming up with detailed information on issues he siid Ald Shirley said he is suiprised there isnt more tiiptit into the actual operation of Jll SlllltlIW settlcd right in the city by aldermen llowcter Ald Shirley said he thinks most ildernicn make real effort to read tip and be familiar on all upcoming items ld Shirley said he entered the political arena because he wanted to see the seeder project and annexation completed If botli of those issues are settled by next fall Ald Shirley said he may look at hang ing tip the political boots Politics is not long range stint for him The same can be said for ld Meg itltonal who told The Examiner Wednes day she entered politics because of her ob itxtioiis to the seeder pront and her desire to see the frtiit ion of annexation IFlIIlittll$l She said she found the meetings confusing tit the start because of the various council formats and processes involved In addition tld itlloiial said she listened good deal it the start to become more familiar yi itli council procetxlings While the workload is busy It has not in tcrfcred with Ald ttttontils Kioh is teacher If thought council was going to ltlttrittt with my jolt wouldnt have rtin iii the tirst place she added ld itltonal said she finds she is in the minority in many cases on separate issues It prov tiles her with ccittiiii frustration ltlis iiil IFti ttltti no job interference It is because she said some of the ideas of newer members of council conflict with the older members of council Im not saying theyre wrong she add ed lot of them are concerned with their political image and with losing face That attitude is understandable too though she said Ald Jagges who used to be employed with the city as director of finance is fin ding qtiite transition in the political end of things As an employee your concern lies in one area only but youve got to be familiar with wide area when becoming an alderman he said It continues to be good challenge he said had hoped there would be more input by the general public into general commit tee affairs he said Ive enjoyed the year working both with administrative staff and with council members he said IIIIN TO LISTEN Through his experiences he said he thinks aldermen are more than willing to listen to views of constituents and said he still believes Ward is first class tea the workload ld Jagges said he is not bothered expected the commitment was making he said it itFS enjoyed hetii Socit different Troubled teens seek help By TERRY FIELD The Examiner Though no hard evidence exists to support the contention Malcolm Summers super visor with the Simcoe County Childrens Aid boctety says that for every troubled teenager who comes into the societys care another finds help with another social agencv at school health clinic church Further some adolescents who have pro blems stemming from family lives and perhaps feel unwanted or unloved fall in with peers whose interests are prosocial and substitute time with the gang for time at home Thsese teenagers never feel the need for help Summers says Even if problem is recognized it is dif ficult to separate the symptoms which are often smaller problems in themselves from the cause Drug or alcohol abuse acts of violence failure at school may all rise up from basic feeling of inadequacy Summers says The teenager may be blamed for the familys shortcomings ta scapegoati his efforts may go unrewarded His efforts no matter how concentrated may not be enough SIIE HIIYUNllfiYNIITtlllS Hopefully we can see beyond the symptom to the teens deeper needs some of these kids are Just looking for someone they can be sure of someone ho cares says Stim mers The teens themselves are as varied as the problems they exhibit says Diane Robinson social worker During recent meeting of the societys directors she provided profile of the type of teenager the societv sees and how the society is involved Robinson says adolescents are generally good kids but that is the only generaliza tion she ill make You cant Just say that these are the reasons all these kids need help they are all diiterent their problems are different Robinson say Neither do wom cliches about kids from the wrong side of the tracks necessarily app ly Physical and emotional abuse is often part of life in the so tiilled best of homes where parents are constiici vi to be lo Ing pimple by neighbors and relatees she say lany parents says summers are so wrap ped up with their own success their own desires and dreams Iiat the child is los ir he wake Teenagers tr this circumstance otten call the society theniseltes looking for help Robinson says tlthcrs are referred to the society by social agencies and in some cases the parent is looking for help is hand mg teenager who is out of control she says The society also has adolescents the state has assumed guardianship oyer pennantiii ly via the courts Teenagers in care are placed in foster homes and visited regularly by social workers who attempt to deal with indii idual problems The society has tiles currently on some 1000 cases in total including children and adolescents About one third are in foster homes tlthllTPROBLEMS When dealing with troubled teens ocial workers must take into consideration the adolescents ability to work out lll own pro blems Much depends on lllili or he toi thi oti come of care suninitis says In many ways they hold their own success or failure in their own hands Nike child who forgets all but the worst yrversions in his past the teenager is more an adult The problems have taken root to the degree where solving them may be impossi tile We try and treat the teen as an adult we respect their opinion Robinson says You try and help them reach decisions not make those decisions for them All within the bounds of reason however The adolescent who is havmg trouble must conform to degree to the soctety the foster home Summers says In general the rules that exist must be acknowledged Further he says most of the teens who come into care and most teenagers in total are looking for stability in their lives Again while there is no hard evidence to support the contention Summers says lack of constructive discipline is the bas1s of the troubles experienced liy teenagers Diane Robinson and Moicofm Summers ot the Simcoe County Childrens Aid Society examine legislative statutes concerning children and adolescents Examiner Photo Illti it