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By TERRY FIELD Of The Examiner Were looking to satisfy the needs of our children and not the needs of someone who wants child Bernadette Sullivan foster home finder with the Simcoe County Childrens Aid Society When Joy Leslie talks of the children she has been foster mother for her words are gentle But when the conversation turns to money and the degree to which the province spends money to help children from broken homes she becomes little angry and very frustrated wish the politicians would live with these kids for awhile see them talk to them They are people and not just names on form Joy 29 and her husband Ed 32 have been foster parents for five years During that time 13 different children from dayold infant to teenager old enough to think of getting opt on his own have shared their home for varying lengths time As they speak about those years they leave the impres sion that satisfaction and frustration walk handinhand in the world they have created in their lives Satisfaction derived from believing you have helped someone frustra tion because the government is not as benevolent as they believe it should be because social workers have large caseloads that prevent them from spending more time with each child It has been tightrope they say Some days they have consoled themselves by telling each other that the foster children can go back to the Childrens Aid Society It weighs on you this 24hour sevendaysaweek job says Ed an employee in machine sho But things always look brighter in the morning he says Many of the children placed in foster homes have had no stability in their lives at all some have had as many as five or 10 sets of parents by the time they are sixyearsold Children who come into care are from broken families Some from single mothers who cant handle it some have been deserted many are abused either physically or emo tionally some are orphaned says Mrs Sullivan We ask prospective foster parents to complete social history for us which allows us to get to know the people and their family she says We try to perceive the home through the eyes of the childwhat is best for the child is the issue We try not to make it difficult for the foster parents but there are things we must know We look at how man and wife relate to each other We ask what are their priorities What do they consider impor tant The husband and wife must be good for each other if they are going to be good for the children Orillia foster parents describe joys sorrows of caring for children But while it is easily told there is more to the job than is readily apparent There are the strangs of adjusting to new people and new situations and the invasion of privacy that is inevitableespecially with older children Joy says shy It is different and more difficult in some ways to deal with older children who come into your home after perhaps several years of being shuffled about They are hard sometimes bitter cannot trust and do not love they say Younger children are more maleable but given to being constantly afraid Too young to understand in many cases their new home is mystery And regardless of their age they never forget the Leslies say Theres always an adjustment period Its different for each Some adjust quickly others more slowly and Im sure some never fully adjust The Leslies are one of some 200 couples in the county who have opened their homes to children who do not have one It takes three or four months and as many as six months to study prospective foster parents Were not getting to studies as quickly as we have in the past because of the social workers caseloads The time doesnt seem to discourage people but the study itself sometimes does We look into their backgrounds have them complete forms and do series of interviews After all that we still have some people who couldnt han die it and give up but that happens Hearing about being foster parent and doing it are two different things Mrs Sullivan says About 25 per cent of those who apply are accepted Money isnt big factorwe dont pay enough for anyone to make money she says The per diem rate for children under fouryearsold is $432 for children under 13 $516 for children over 13 $624 Its hard We ask people to take children into their homes and love them treat them as if they were their own and then give them up just like that They get pretty close to them Mrs Sullivan said The Leslies were married five years when they decided to take in foster children Today they have four who are per manent wards of the crown and have been with them for several years During that time they also adopted two children The family of eight lives in working class section of Orillia The decision to foster was in part selfish one We liked children and we wanted to have some around they say But helping kids was the prime motive for the move Weve always felt sorry for kids that have problems and dont have home of their own Fostering is something you put your whole heart and soul into Sometimes you think youre crazy to stick it out it can Sullivan says You like to see an affectionate family an understanding family One that is funloving one that enjoys kids One that realizes children are people and communicates well Mrs The job the Leslies do is easy to describe The social worker drops the child off and says treat him as if he were one of yours and you do says Joy We provide complete home home with all the normal requirements You feed them clothe them love them talk with them counsel them Ed adds be painful and its very tiring It can be discouraging You have kid for while then he is gone And the worst part is that he may go back into the same situation he was in before It makes us sad to think of that they say You really cant know what fostering is going to be like no matter what anyone tells you Anyone thinking of foster ing should take the time to think it all out says Joy For them the Leslies say the aim is to promote trust and parent must trust the child and the child must learn he can trust the parent If you grow up with love you will love in return love The Computer can mate Holsteins By RICHARD THOMAS Of The Examiner United Breeders Inc an ar tificial insemination unit with headquarters in Guelph will in November offer new com puterized mating service to Holstein breeders its director of information and promotions announced last week Don Fortune said the com puterized system which has already been tried on few herds during its perfection pm cess will allow breeders to pin point the most logical mates for their cows Computer mating of cattle however bears little resemblance to computer dating for people Fortune said Its goal is to produce from cows calves which are better stronger and able to produce Twentyseven years ago Gerald Westcott the Simcoe County Board of Education trustee for thc Townships of Mara and Rama decided he wanted to get involved in the education system and he did His first ex rience came in 1952 when was elected to the threemanboard serv ing the area Several years later the township board was established And in 1969 the county board came into be in Eike many of the boards 21 trustees Westcott views the move to county board as the major change that has taken place in the system Ive seen tremendous amount of change he said during recent interview Teachers have lot more material to work with that they did in years past but the establishment of the county board was the greatest change The large organization allows for more specialized more milk and butterfat than their mothers he said This is done by selecting suitable bull with the help of the computer Fortune said The breeder or an advisor from the artificial insemination centre evaluates the cow herd looking at the defects of each cow FED TO COMPUTER When the defects are summarized Fortune said the information is then fed into the computer which produces list of bulls who are proven to leave daughters with strength in the areas where the cow being analyzed is weak For example he said if cow lacks body capacity she cannot convert as much grass to milk as large bodied cow If this is the problem of the cow fr know your school board to countywide board GERALD WESTCOIT tremendous change ams and the hiring of essional educators he said Prior to 19 education in spectors who worked for the ministry of education provid ed the expertise required at the local level Westcott said Many adjustments had to be made when the swit chover occurred and several 35 ask being analyzed the computer will produce list of bulls that are plusrated for body capaci ty Fortune said the ratings for each bull come from sum mary of its existing daughters as seen by an official analyst from the Holstein Association The daughter average is com pared with breed average and the bull receives plus or minus rating in points accor ding to its daughter superiority Factors evaluated include dairy character capacity feet legs rump udders and size Fortune said all of which still leaves room for the discerning breeder to make his own deci sion as to the final selection of mating bull The information for each bull is already available and single up by the larger organiza tion Westcott said Not the least of which wa more remote county receiv equal acces to educational facilities The development of salary schedule that would apply for teachers across the count was also important and on of the boards earlies achievements he said Some teachers wer receiving much more than others for the same work when the board first came in to being Westeott said Of win3e havingone board also created the roblern of moving children mm to point page Westcott asa memberof the countys tramportation com mittee is only too aware of are some 300 buses operating and it takes wary eye to keep control of the operation he told The Ex aminer traits are easy to check he said but few cows are that nearly perfect and usually several traits must be cor rected LONG PROCESS There are so many bulls available today however that sorting them manually to find those who have all or most of the qualities to correct more than one trait would be long process Fortune said The computer can do it in matter of seconds he said United Breeders has branch office in Alliston where area breeders can receive help and information on selecting com putgr mate for their cows he sai Protect herds from warbles farmers told Cattle farmers in Simcoe County should be treating their herds for warbles says an of ficial with the Ontario griculture ministrys Alliston fice Warbles actually fly larvae bore holes through the hide of cattle not only lowering the uality of the hide but causing iscomfort to the animal which results in reduced gain says Bill Cooper assistant agricultural representative with the ministrys South Sim coeoffice Warbles are always pro blem but more so at this time of year and farmers should treat their animals with systems to kill the larvae while they are still located in the legs an lower regions says Cooper If farmers dont treat cattle now he says by December the larvae will have moved up into the regions of the spine and gullet and treatment then might result in side effects The ministry is recommen ding systemics such as neguvon tton and con to oontrolthe arvae The treatment whether ap plied by spray or on is one shot deal ooper says Dairy farmers can use the systemics on heifers but not milking cows he says as systemics which move through the animals system will leave residues in milk mooe county the examiner deay Oct 16 1979 Making Forest Resources Inventory survey in Line of Innistii bush for the ministry of natural resources are David Beavers left recording and David Bamim measuring trees height with foresters transit Photo by Brian Baker Tree survey runs on legwork By BRIAN BAKER Examiner Corresondent THORNTON Interesting indeed is the ministry of natural resources present Forest Resources Inventory Program being carried out in the Huronia District this year We had the pleasure of ac companying David Barnim forest engineering technologist and David Beavers fish and wildlife technician this week when they visited our Thornton farm and bush to follow up an aerophotograph with ground research This was no haphazard visit and spot check These two technicians came in on com pass bearing as marked on the aerial photo No 784417 6668 by researchers at the head of fice at Queens Park Toronto According to instructions given for this site they followed 206 Expansion planned degree course for two chains or 40 metres into our threeacre bush including tamarack spruce balsam red and white pine oak red maple white ash willow and Carolina poplar Using double refracting wedge prism which gives dou ble image with one image off set Bamim pivoted in 360 degree circle counting all the trees over four inches in diametre at four and half feet above ground determined by the fact that the prism appears to offset section of the trunk of given tree to one side In trees four inches or under the offset section appears to stand com letely apart from the nor mal viewed trunk and is therefore not counted GIVES IDEA This count gives us pretty accurate idea of what we call basal area explained Bamim In this part of your bush the basal area is high at 60 square meters per hectare 212 acres Last year we flew 25000 line miles in Southern Ontario and 12000 miles in Northern On tario taking aerial photos This year we are doing our ground work which includes 20000 plots in this region including Huronia west to Cambridge East to Lindsay and south to Niagara Through the summer we were in the office most of the time processing the research of five teams of researchers mostly college students working in the bush South Simcoe the last area to be completed was left for us to finish In the office we must also be able to study the three dimensional photographs through stereoscope and be able to say for instance this or naval exhibition PENETANGUISHENE Exciting new developments are in line for one of Huronias favorite tourist attractions the Historic Naval and Military Establishments at the end of Church Street in Penetang uishene The future of the Naval and Military Establishments here looks very bright says Scott Wilson naval staff supervisor This year the establishments saw over 15000 visitors and visitor rate has been steadily rising by factor of 15 per cent These figures are very en couraging Within the next two years we are expecting major ex pansion program to be well underway towards comple tion said Wilson Already the site is undergoing new development and we are br inging in lot more research NEW CONSTRUCTION Perhaps the most exciting part of this new redevelopment program will be the construc tion of new orientation centre and theatre It will be con structed in style in keeping with the 19205 architecture adhered to so far in the reconstruction of the Establishments It will be located conveniently half way down along the site Visitors will wait in the lobby that will look like the quarter deck of an early sailing schooner To view the new movie visitors will des cend into what looks like the hold of sailing ship and the sound of waves and wind and the creaking of ships timbers will add to the realistic at mosphere One of the more exciting pro jects undertaken late this fall was the dig by archeologists on the site of the old barracks which in the early 1800s provid ed housing for up to 150 men and some of their wives and families NEW MOVIE Most interesting is the new movie which is designed to complement the new theatre and expansion program It is description of the EstabliShments as seen through the eyes of William Wilson shipwright Recrea tions of the scenes of activities around the Establishments br ing to life the color and history of this Huronia highlight In the movie Wilson describes the lovely morning in 1817 when he first came to the Penetang Naval Establishments finding nothing but beauty and peaceful activity instead of the expected presence of American warships lurking out in Penetang Harbour In 1812 we had ripe old rum go with the Americans ex changing fire with them for two years said Wilson Both of us claimed victory Cant im agine the British Sea Dogs los ing naval battle but then our forces were tied up fighting Napoleon After we crushed him Britain sent 18000 of our crack troops here to Canada and that just about ended that It was for the possibility of renewed attacks that the Royal Naval base was established at Penetang some 20 years after Lt Gov of Upper Canada John Graves Simcoe had first surveyed it in the mid1790s It replaced the military outpost of Fort Willow in Minesing Swamp and the Blockhouse at Nancy Island and the later depot at Schooner Town on the Nottawasaga River at Wasaga Beach It was with some amusement that Wilson noted the sailors in the gardens tending their watermelons and other garden crops to supplement the unglamorous naval rations At this time there were as many as 17 warships and schooners anchored out in the bay and to the docks quite sight While no new ships were to be built it was to keep 70 men including Shipwrights carpenters blacksmiths and other base staff to maintain the base and repair the ships build the Kings Wharf put up an im mense storehouse and to unload supply ships Almost sadly he describes how relations with the Americans began to thaw and just as the naval base had been completed the British began to disband it By 1822 he was the lone shipwright left By 1827 he found time to get married and discovered that love and the warmth of the hearth fire can melt the chill of the bitterest winter and speak life into the loneliest of outposts In 1828 there was flurry of activity as soldiers and other British and Canadian oc cupants of Drummond Island returned to Penetang when the island was turned over to the Americans by the British Revitalized now as both naval and military base the site re echoed once again to battle practice and musket drill and the officers created new social life that overflowed into the civilian community of Penetanguishene In 1834 the naval men ship ped out and the base became military one Wilson like many of the other retiring service men retired just up the way and became part of the com munity In 1856 it was closed as military base and turned over to the Government of Upper Canada as juvenile refor matory There is spirit of adven ture that permeats these historic buildings concludes the movie presentation Regular tours have ceased for the season but day pro grams for school children in cluding letter writing chart reading and working in the dockyard to get the kids out in the fresh air will run until mid November with further in formation available from the Establishments 88 that area of bush contains 60 bull moose jum up and per cent hard maple and 40 per came charging ter the man cent white ash and give the who escaped by climbingahan average age of the trees to dy tree On another occasion within five years and their Bamim and rather nervous average height to within one student helper were working in metre all by looking at the Algonquin Park when during photograph of an area of bush the night bear broke into the not covered by ground kitchen When Bamim went in survey Yesthat takes little to the bedroom to ask the young practice fellow to help him remove the DRILLED CENTRE bear the poor fellow scared With special coring auger skinny zi ped his sleeping bag Mr Beavers drilled into the up around himself so fast the centre of seveninch dimetre zipper must have gone around red maple foot from the three times ground and withdrew straw Barnim said that while size sample core Along this he counted 24 annualar rings add ed two years for the seeling stage and came up with an age of 26 years for the tree Barnim using special foresters transit walked so many metres back from the tree being surveyed and took sighting at the top of the trees locked the indicator needle at the vertical reading sighting manhigh from the base gave the horizontal distance reading of 14 plus two ac curately gave the tree height of 16 metres or about 50 feet an annual growth rate of two feet per year All information pertaining to the survey plot is recorded in cluding growth rate tree densi ty tree species presence of absence of understorey or growth of wildlife shrubs fruiting plants regeneration of trees and nature of soil Soils are recorded as sand clay loam silt peat bedrock Soils are recorded as being dry like upland sand fresh like the clay under the Baker bush moist where you can squeeze little water out wet where you sink up to your knees And they both chuckled there are lakes FELT AT HOME Both felt at home working in Huronia where they had been bitten only once by local dog On different occasions rather than argue the rightofway with an irate bear they have had to beat hasty retreat or climb tree Bamim recalled all too vividly the time they were walking traverse through eightfoot dense second growth when they walked right into the midst of two cow moose and one bull that were lying down It was rutting season and the know your county Heather Walker of Barrie correctly identified the last entry in the Know Your County Contest as the monument in the cemetery at Line and Highway in Oro she wins two free steaks courtesy of and Super Discount in Barrie Angus or Alliston if you know the answer to this weeks contest send your name address and phone number to Know Your County Contest The Examiner Box 370 Barrie L4M 4T6 Winners are notified by mail Kenora and Temagami and Northern Ontario forests are comprised largely of pulp and lumber type trees like jack pine birch and black spruce in tremendous volumes at an average value of four or five dollars per tree Down in this area larger trees and more valuale hardwoods like oak hard maple black cherry and walnut used in fine furniture and veneering grow make the value of trees much higher here Northern pulp and lumber timber might have value of $50 per 1000 board feet popular and basswood $100 white and red pine $250 with oak and similar hardwoods in this area selling this summer for as high as$1000per1000 board feet ACCURATE RECORD This survey will give us an accurate record of Ontarios forest resources said Bamim The last survey in Huronia was made in 1948 since then our forestry and survey tec nology has gone long way In this survey everything is being recorded in metric The survey is designed to help everyone farmers landowners in general the pulp and lumber ing industries Government forestry departments conser vationists and sportsmen This information will be available to help the ministry of natural resources to help in dividual woodlot owners among others who request it to improve their woodlots make them more attractive to wildlife or make them economically productive Woodlot owners can order aerial photos of their properties cost about $2 each from the Ministry of Natural Resources Public Service Centre Whitney Block Queens Park Toronto M7A1