812-Uncaster Farming, Saturday, November 22,1986 Canadian Mounfies (Continued from Page BIO) Troublemakers and Nincompoops He seems to know almost everyone in his area, including the troublemakers, the drunks, and “the nincompoops,” as he calls them. He wears a revolver but has never fired it in anger, even when he once found himself “at the wrong end of a shotgun.” He talked his assailant into putting it down. Trepassey is no hotbed of criminal activity the constable on duty had nothing to list on a recent overnight report. Taylor hasn’t had a murder to investigate in his four years in Trepassey, “and I’m not sure there’s ever been one here,” he says. There are even times when no policeman is on duty; calls are Cpl. Roger L. Taylor of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police sells a Newfoundland firearms permit to George Whalen, a worker in a St. Mary's fish-processing plant. Members of the RCMP are responsible for enforcing every level of law in places like Newfoundland's Avalon Peninsula, and, in some rural areas, even serve as prosecutors in cases involving minor offenses. The permit enables Whelan to use his shotgun for hunting. Give Eggs q AGRI-HEATERS Engineered And Built For EFFICIENCY and DEPENDABIL by CAMBRIDGE EFFICIENT burns 99% + of fuel. EASY TO SERVICE front plate easily removed. BUILT TO LAST heavy duty parts, galvanized base, baked epoxy paint. NEW REMOTE STAINLESS STEEL THERMOSTAT With 7 Foot Cord Available In Natural or LPGas I Year "No Questions Asked" Warranty T >coy ff vxssssxz SWHE SYSTEMS —' t then automatically diverted to St. John’s, 85 miles away, and if necessary a Trepassey officer is contacted. Crime is on a down swing, Taylor says; only 27 men have been locked up this year, and 80 percent of all cases have been cleared. But each year brings about a dozen major cases and numerous cases of drunk driving, speeding, family disputes, and accidents. One day recently, Taylor went to the home of a man whose brother had attacked him and a nephew because of a land dispute. The man and his nephew were vocal and emotional, often interrupting each other. Taylor sat quietly, calming them, gently leading them to answer questions with facts, and taking a statement. He offered BAMBIIIBGE= AGBIBEATER u NEWARK, Del. - Lori A. Rider of Bndgeville has joined the ex tension staff at the University of Delaware Research and Education Center in Georgetown as an ex tension vegetable assistant. Rider, who received a bachelor’s degree in agriculture from Cornell University in 1984, will help specialist Ed Kee conduct variety trials on watermelons, cucumbers, broccoli, peppers and potatoes. She will also assist with herbicide trials on lima beans at the center’s Experimental farm. Her duties will some advice, promised to visit the brother’s home to file an assault charge, and left. It was nothing heroic, just nitty gritty police work, but emblematic of the RCMP motto: “Maintiens le Droit” “Maintain the Right.” Rider Joins Delaware Extension Staff include all phases of the trials from planning, planting and harvest to computer analysis of the data. While attending college, Rider spent three summers as a crops technician in charge of pesticide treatments at the Agway Farm Research Center in New York. She has also worked on herbicide development at Monsanto Agricultural Chemicals and managed an agricultural equip ment leasing office for Telmark, Inc., which covered 24 counties in Pennsylvania and Ohio. After moving to Delaware, Rider worked briefly at the Georgetown. Research and Education Center collecting and organizing vegetable research data before becoming a soil conservationist for the Sussex Conservation District from November 1985 to August The World's Largest Double Door CALF KENNELS Same Advantages As Hutches, w/Inside Feeding Compare the Stoltzfws Woodwork Calf Hutch Lifting Hook for easy handling ne Sheet Rear Vent /Option) v Galvanized (Option) \ 1 __ - Sturdy 2x4 louatructloD Tilt Out Feeder for/ Treated ikida easy access exterior plywood ALSO AVAILABLE: TRACK FOR FASTENING CALVES' CHAIN TO CEILING OF HUTCH STQLTZFUS WOODWORK 1. \ Rt. 897 North - Gap, PA 17527 717-442-8972 1986. Her extension appointment became effective in October. Rider and her husband, Robert, operate a five-acre vegetable farm in Bridgeville. Simple, efficient eyebolt and pin le ling
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