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Wednesday May 23. 2001 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER B3 Police benefit from United Way By Wilma Blokhuis BEAVER FOCUS EDITOR The police benefit from the community's support of the United Way, says Chief Ean Algar of the Halton Regional Police Service. "The police service does not receive any direct fund ing from any United Way, but we work hand in hand with many of the front line ser vices that do benefit," said Algar at the United Way of Oakville's (UWO) sixth annual Community Leaders Breakfast. Held at the Le Dome Banquet Hall last week, the event, sponsored by Ford, officially kicks off the UWO's corporate cam paign. "If these services do not receive support, our police resources will be challenged through reaction to commu nity problems, increased vic timization, and will lose the ability to have and maintain and safe and healthy commu nity." Algar, who sits on the UWO's campaign cabinet and is honourary chair of its Carousel of Nations multi cultural celebration, described the 38 United Way funded agencies as "commu nity partners" of the police service. Last year, the United Way raised more just under $3 million for these local health and social service agencies. As one of two keynote speakers at the breakfast, Algar attributes Halton's (and Oakville's) below aver age crime rate to the services provided by health and social service agencies to which people have been referred. Using 1999 statistics - no figures are available for last year - Algar noted the national crime rate is 7,733 incidents per 100,000 popu lation, 6,508 per 100,000 in Ontario, and 4,286 per 100.000. "Our crime rate fell by almost 5.9% in 1999," Algar said, "continued to decline in 2000, and has fallen by over 37% since 1991. "We continue to be the safest community in Canada with a population in excess of 100,000. "Our community is grow ing at a rate of 13,000 a year and if we don't work togeth er. and if we don't support our community through he United Way. our ability to effectively police can be adversely affected." He also attributed the low crime rate to Oakville and Burlington "consistently rat ing in the top 20 Canadian communities for average income," the region's low unemployment rate, and a higher than average educa tional achievement among the population. Algar said the United Way supports a number of agencies that provide ser vices that discourage crime. These include Big Brothers of Halton, which provides male mentors to fatherabsent boys aged six to 16. "With over 50% of all offences being committed by youth between 15 to 24, Big Brothers fills a vacuum, and I believe, deters youth involvement in crime." He also noted that Community Resources Services (Ontario), an agency working closely with the police by providing services to youth, young adults and their families, "involved with, or at risk of involvement with, the criminal justice system." And, he applauded the Halton Multicultural Council for "enabling every individual, regardless of racial/ethnic origin to participate as a full and active member of this commu nity through fostering mutual respect and understanding of one another." Algar also mentioned Grace House which houses up to 10 adults with social and psychiatric disabilities and helps them achieve independent living, and Food for Life which picks up surplus food from suppliers and distributes it to the less fortunate. "These agencies help thousands of people annually," said Guy McLean, this year's UWO campaign cabinet chair, "from babies to seniors." Although this year's campaign goal is yet to be set, UWO board chair Don Pangman said the "demand for services will increase and will appear in ever cor ner of society, the old, the young, the poor and the abused." John See, vice-chair of TD Waterhouse Group Inc., the morning's second keynote speaker, echoed those remarks, "The United Way is at the frontlines of society at risk," said See, who also sits on the UWO's campaign cabinet. "Last year. United Way funding pro vided almost 55,000 hours of coun selling our children and youth, support ing 12 agencies that offer assistance to young people and their families; funded seven agencies provided dignity and respect to 5,600 seniors, and about $500,000 worth of food was distributed to families who otherwise would have gone hungry in our community. "A donation to the United Way is the most effective gift you can make to the community," said See. "And, only 14% of all donated money is used to support the adminis tration of the United Way of Oakville, compared to the national average of 26% spent by the non-profit sector on administration." See said he's proud of his company's "consistent support" of the United Way, and last year made a record $3.6 million corporate and employee donation, plus special events. He noted the most effective fundrais ing is employee payroll deduction. Last year, it accounted for about $700,000 or 23% of last year's campaign. "Supporting the United Way is sim ply good business." U n it e d W a y ____ Photo by Riziero Vertolli John See, vice-chair of TD Waterhouse Group, spoke about the importance of supporting the United Way. MAKING WORK EFFICIENT! BUY 2 GET 1 FREE* *' © Small Wonders* P resented b y K ris tin a S m a ll Q ueen's U niversity Fine A rts G ra d u a te Canon WHEN SCHOOL'S OUT! YOU ARE WANTED!!! FOR: S U N , FU N , ART, C R A F S , S W IM M IN G , G A M E S A N D M O R E! 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