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{Continued from page 1} were those groups which provide food, clothing, shelter and Appeal budget We peak early, decline rapidly: fitness survey Tâ€"D bank heist probe continues Chronicle staff Investigation continues into an armed holdup last week of a north Waterloo bank. L Police estimate that approxiâ€" mately $3,000 in cash was taken in the Thursday afternoon holdup of the Toronto Dominion Bank at Northfield Drive and Weber Street North. Chronicle Special While it was heartwarming to see more than 17,000 E:ople in Waterloo take part in the Great Canadian Participaction Chalâ€" lenge last week, all the news on fitness this week isn‘t the greatest. 27 sys n nA A spokesman for the Waterloo regional police said Tuesday that five suspects are being sought in connection with the robbery, three of whom actually entered the bank. Four suspects had been proseimns o JiJl LiuVIVOY WDLRANCE ~ 0 ('r.“h sroivi $ inei ; roups receiving the _ year behalf of thg Qrovmcual legls.lat.ure to largest grants include i1 Matilda Heinrich. Mrs. Heinrich, a the Red Cross: Kâ€"W â€" Solic native of Poland and currently a Counselling Services, _ equi resident of Luther Manor in Waterloo, $110,000; the A.R. Wat celebrated her birthday Sunday with Kaufman Family Y, _T F friends ‘|02‘70.0'. the YWCA, _ mist a party attended by relatives, frien receiving $90.000 and has _ and fellow residents. _ Pat Arbuckie photo the Saivation Army, a h: $87,000. teen WEEme M n ME EC Contrary to the popular image of the highlyâ€"active and physicallyâ€"fit adolesâ€" cent, the most dramatic decline in Canaâ€" dian fitness levels actually occurs during the teenage years. Canada Fitness Survey findings, as announced last week by the Hon. Ray Perrault, Minister of Su:e Fiul\‘es: and L e e i t W inace £ CAE OCRens es o s e T Amateur Sport, confirm that male fitness levels peak at the early age of 13, when 94 per cent can attain a recommended level of cardiovascular fitness. Herb Epp, MPP for Waterioo North, presents a Q1st Birthday plaque on behalf of the provincial legislature to Matilda Heinrich. Mrs. Heinrich, a native of Poland and currently a resident of Luther Manor in Waterloo, celebrated her birthday Sunday with a party attended by relatives, friends and fellow residents. _ Pat Arbuckie photo BETTER WITH AGE counselling to individuâ€" als in dire need. "Economic conditions have placed demands taken into custody following the robbery, but were released Friday afternoon because of lack of eviâ€" dence. Police are currently examining two handguns, discovered Friday by a post office employee, which they believe were used in the hold up. The Waterloo bank holdup was the second to take place in Kâ€"W last week. The first occurred Wednesday when a lone thief took $2,000 from a teller at the Fairview Park Mall branch of Canada Trust. However, this figure slumps sharply by the time males reach their early 20‘s, when only 38 per cent are able to perform at the recommended fitness plateau. This represents a 56 per cent drop in only a few years. Females also scored poorly. While peaking sooner, with 78 per cent of 10â€"yearâ€"oids qualifying as being fit, the survey uncovered another rapid decune. since only 38 per cent of females in their late teens were able to achieve a comparaâ€" ble level of fitness. More than 15,000 Canadians underwent fitness testing and 22,000 were interviewed during the 1981 survey. Sponsored by Fitness and Amateur Sport, it is the on some agencies more than others and conâ€" sequently more emâ€" phasis should be placed on these agencies," Carter said. Agencies receiving the smaller increases report that 1984 will be a bleak year for them because of insufficient funding for their proâ€" grams. _ ‘‘We were counting on a bigger allocation, a much larger amount," â€" commented Marjorie Mank execuâ€" tive director of the Caâ€" nadian Mental Health Association, which reâ€" ceived an increase of approximately eight per cent. *"We had hoped to operate in the black next year and to be faced with another defâ€" icit financial picture is not happy for us," she said. Red Cross Society ofâ€" ficials will meet again "to go over the budget to see where we can cut," commented sociâ€" ety president Pat Graâ€" ham ‘"but we‘re always very, very frugal in preparing the budget. ‘"We‘re short and it‘s going to hurt," she said. "‘It‘s going to cause us difficulty." Even with the small allocation increase the Red Cross will still receive approximately $110,000 from Federatâ€" ed Appeal. Constable Gilen Taylor (left) and Rose Pulis (right), project leader for Teens on Patrol, look over one of the new police cruisers on display last week during Police week. The sixâ€"member team will be patrolling area parks and playgrounds until September in an effort to reduce vandalism. Patrolling the parks Pat Arbuckle Chronicle Staff A program that has proven its worth in controlling the spread of vandalism in city parks will again be implemented in the Waterioo region. Starting Monday the six members of Teens on Patrol will be making their rounds of area parks and playgrounds throughout the summer months. "It is basically a liaison between the police force and the community to promote crime prevention in the community," explained Rose Pulis, a fourthâ€"year WLU business student who will serve as project leader. Now in its third year, the Teens on Patrol program was established in the Waterloo region in 1981 to counter the growing incidence of vandalism in area parks. A favorite target of vandals in Waterloo park, for instance, was the wildlife conservation area where animal cages were frequently cut open, park benches damâ€" aged and tree limbs broken, explained Constaâ€" ble Glen Taylor, supervisor of the Teens on Patrol program. Although it is difficult to produce statistics showing just how much vandalism does not occur because of the patrol, Taylor says there has definitely been no increase and any damage has occurred late at night when patrollers have left the park. . -"‘:'l:fieyrwere effective in what they were doing and we would like to see the same effect this year," he said. _______ _ The program is funded by a grant from the Solicitor General of Canada. Transportation, equipment and supervision are provided by the Waterloo Regional Police. The Teens on Patrol name has proven to be a misnomer. In the three years that the program has been operating in the Waterloo region, only a handful of the patrollers have actually been teens. Of the six patrollers and one project Police program helps halt vandalism largest and most comprehensive study of physical activity and fitness ever underâ€" taken. . "While we can be heartened by the apparent overall improvement of fitness, especially among adult Canadians during recent years," cautioned Perrault, "the facts aiso indicate that efforts must be increased during the high school years to Despite the dramatic decline evidenced during the teenage years, the survey disclosed a majority (55 per cent) of all those tested actually reached their recomâ€" mended cardiovascular fitness level. Anâ€" other third achieved the mirnimal level, and only a relatively small balance was unacceptably low. leader hired this year, the majority are university or community college students. One is an auxiliary police officer with the Ontario Provincial Police. Pulis sees the main role of the teen patrollers as one of making the parks safe for everyone to enjoy. Members of the team patrol in groups of two. Sporting their bright blue Tâ€"shirts, police baseball caps and twoâ€"way radios, they are easily recognizable to park visitors. The group will patrol the three major parks in the Waterloo region, Waterloo, Victoria and Riverside, daily until 8 p.m. Patrollers will also circulate through some of the smaller parks in the region during evening baseball games and will be present for such major events as Waterloo Days. In Taylor‘s opinion, one of the greatest benefits of the Teens on Patrol program is the direct and regular contact that members of the group have with the community. As representaâ€" tives of the police department he feels the patrollers help to make the public aware of the seriousness of the vandalism problem. * Their basic responsibility will be one of observation rather than apprehension, exâ€" plained Taylor â€" to record any damage to park property and to notify park authorities so that repairs can be made. Should patrollers come upon an act of vandalism in progress, they have been instructâ€" ed to call police on their twoâ€"way radios rather than become directly involved. But Pulis feels that the very presence of the patrollers in the park will act as a deterrent to other types of criminal activity as well. ‘"The parks are places where children often play," she said. The project leader hopes that the patrol "will create a safe atmosphere for children who are innocent victims of crime." encourage the development of proper health and fitness habits among our young people. Hopefully, once established, this healthy and energetic lifestyle will be maintained throughout the individual‘s lifetime,"‘ he added. With the exception of those persons 60 yearsâ€"ofâ€"age and over, Canadians in their late teens and early 20‘s showed the lowest percentages of those able to attain the established fitness level appropriate to their age group. Males showed better overall results, with 62 per cent reaching the top fitness category, while only 49 per cent of the females tested were able to nthl{l a similar degree of success. Pat Arbuckle photo