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page 8 ♦ THE CANADIAN STATESMAN ♦ OCTOBER 20,2004 durhamregion.com' Durham police report increase in calls From pige 1 While EMS has been keeping up with growth and keeping response times down, more money is needed from the Province, Mr. Armstrong added. The Durham Regional Police Service (DRPS) has seen similar increases in the number of calls officers have responded to. In 1998, the police answered 138,000 calls. This year will see that number rise to just under 200,000, said Chief Kevin McAlpine. "Part of the problem... is that the vast majority of the growth has happened happened along the Lakeshore and between Taunton Road and Hwy. 7," he said. "In our business, population density is a factor along with the total number of people. It's only been in the past year or so that Durham finally met the one officer for every 750 residents benchmark, the Chief said. In 1998 the ratio was 1 to 604. Now it's 1 to 757. The high-profile murder and drug cases that make the news do not make up the majority of the police's workload either. } "When you have more people in the same amount of space driving on the same roads, there are more cars to meet in intersections, more people to lose wallets wallets and car keys and ding each other's fenders," Chief McAlpine said. "On top of that, we're facing a real heavy demand from parents, schools and community groups looking for all kinds of police education programs. Every time there's a new school and new kids, our ability to meet those crime prevention prevention or community safety (duties)...gets pushed and pulled." 1 Love and belonging needs: ;; The biggest impact growth is haying on social services is in day care, said Dr. Hugh Drouin, "The Region's commissioner of social services and his staff have seen the waiting list for subsidized child care go up and down through the years, but it's never been as high as it was in the end of September this year: 1,270 children are waiting for a spot. "There are more young families moving to Durham and they need two incomes," Dr, Drouin said. "People want to go back to work, and child care is expensive so they're asking for subsidized spaces. "The waiting list is certainly climbing." climbing." "So,. 1 too, are'(demands for recreation centres in Durham. Residents want ice time for skating'and hbekey,'community ; rooms for social groups and art classes. Soccer fields and baseball diamonds. The extra 5,000 people -- mostly families families -- moving to Whitby each year is definitely putting a strain on the Town's recreation facilities, said Peter LeBel, the town's director of community and marketing services. "As a result of growth in our community community and concentrated growth in programs... we've had to accommodate that," he said. "We're trying to balance growth with demands on other areas, on the community community as well as keep our tax rate as competitive as possible." The Town has one arena for every 10,000 people, considered "substantially above the provincial average," Mr. LeBel said. Whitby's main library on Dundas Street, which was find for a population of 55,000, not for the current 100,000, is Documents pique interest currently being rebuilt, lie added. Self-actualization: Steven Usher once stood up at a Durham Durham District School Board meeting and said his kids were coming home with soaking wet and blackened socks. They were trudging back and forth between portables at Meadowcrest Public School in Brooklin and had to continuously walk through slush. When the room erupted in applause, Mr. Usher knew he wasn't alone in his concern. The Ashburn parent of three children has been fighting for a new school in Brooklin, and was recently rewarded with the news of to be opened in 2005. But with village's population bursting to 11,700 in the past few years, he fears the new building isn't enough. "The school (Meadowcrest) was near 200 per cent capacity and there were more portables than classrooms," Mr. Usher said. There's one gym for 23 classes. Not enough musical instruments. instruments. Not enough time in the library. The soccer and baseball diamonds and playground are filled with portables. Board Chairwoman Elizabeth Roy hears stories like Mr. Usher's every day. She said the frustration lies at the feet of the Province. "We don't receive the increased dollars to keep up with" new schools and funding, funding, she said. Prior to 1997, school boards, like municipalities, could set their own tax rate. Now funds are funneled through the Province. In 1999,67,589 students were enrolled in DDSB schools. The 2004 draft number number is 70,451. Next month: Cost of growth Walter Passarella/The Canadian Statesman Housing construction is going ahead in force throughout the Region, including this development at Bloor Street East near Prestonvale Road in Courtice. of local historians From page 1 However, "(the documents) looked like papier rnache, it was so badly damaged. "Other than that, there's little of any yalue." ; Still, local historians have expressed interest in obtaining the contents of the safe and sifting through the documents, lie said. "We've got somebody who's interested interested in taking possession of it," Dot. Short said. "Legally, we have to locate the owners if we can." 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