Stolen deer
returned te
lis NV owner

Vashti Singh
Contributing Writer
HER cement deer has made its way home.

But Einily Gardner's beloved vard ornament is in pretty
rough shape.

“It’s an absolute mess,” she said. “It’s not repairable.”

The deer, which had been stolen, appeared on Wednesday
morning propped up against the gate of Gardner’s North
Vancouvy ome. A story about the missing deer was published

the June 11 News.

The concrete animal was a memento to her late husband,
who loved animals. ft was chosen by Gardner's children and
had been on her front lawn for more than 30 years.

A note placed around the dilapidated animal's neck read:
“Saw vour ad in the paper. [found it in the forest on 3rd. Looks
beaten bur at least it’s back.”

While reading the letter, Gardner said, * ‘Looks beaten?” It's
destroyed.”

Gardner said she believed the culprits returned the deer.

“I think they got a guilty conscience about it and brought it

back, If it were you or me who found it, would you not have _

dejivered it in broad daylight? This was delivered in the middle
of the night,” she said. Gardner added that only her street
name, not her address, appeared in the paper: “They must have
known exactly where to deliver it.”

But it’s not all bad news for Gardner. After reading the story

- in the News, North Vancouver resident Trevor Warrington
contacted Gardner and offered to replace the deer.

Of Warrington’s kind gesture, Gardner said, “He sounded
very sincere. Him and his mother had been talking about it. She
felt the same way he did: that this kind of vandalism shouldn’t
be done and that North Vancouverites should stick together.”

Warrington’s mother and Gardner are both 81 years old.

He's currently making arrangements to deliver the deer to
Gardner’s home.

Trustees ask for trust

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“Sure, we'd love to have an arts centre in this community ...
but what are we going to do with these kids?” she asked.
That’s a pertectly legitimate concern, and one that I -have-
heard over and over again,” said trustee Clive Bird, who is chair
of the finance and facilities committee. “But (the parents) want
answers today and we don’c have answers today.”

. - Bird said a thorough public consultation had already begun,
and that a meeting scheduled for next Wednesday evening
would allow stakeholders, including the concerned parents, to
take part in an “issue identification” session with a consultant.

Beaty said she realized the parents are protesting before any
formal proposal has been laid our.

“But we wanted to get to them before any process begins
because we .wwanted them to know how important these issues
are.”

NEWS photo Terry Peters

EMILY Gardner holds up the deer that was on her lawn for over 30 years. The deer
was stolen last week and returned anonymously sometime Wednesday night.

Firm to tap $6B marke

first CINGL on rails by 2002.
Said Koldyk, “We want to
pply locomotives on

service lease, including

fuel, The supply of power to

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about $10 million US to pro-
duce. The subsequent cost per
horsepower will be cquivalent

to an existing state-of-the-art
locomotive (abour $325 US
per horsepower), he said.
Subject to financing and
design considerations,
Railpower plans to have the

North American (Canada and
the U.S.) railroads is about a
$6 billion US annual industry.
We hope to have a substantial
portion of that by applying bet-
ter technology.”

Monthly
deduction
of $400

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with it, we might as well all be
treated the same way.”

Yhite, who worked in the
Private sector, will not receive
another pension upon retire:
ment. In 1998 White con:
ducted a survey of his con-
stituents on the pension plan
and said that close to 70%
advised White to opt into the
plan. “1 ided 1 wouldn’t
opt back in then because my
personal circumstances
weren't putting me in financial
stress, even though 69% of the
constituents said f should,”
said White.

The legislation will also
give MPs who opted out of,
the plan in 1993 the option of
buying back missed yea
play catch up. To be ¢
for the pension plan, MPs
must serve in the house for at
least six years.

According to White, the
price of his buy-back option
would be approximately
$50,000. However, if he
choases not to cxere
option, he would have to serve
another six years in the house
to qualify for the plan.

Whether he chooses to buy
back into the plan or not, he'll
still have $400 a month taken
from his pay cheque to go
toward the pension.

“It's very easy ta look at it
on the surface and say these
Canadian Alliance MPs are
breaking a promise they made
but it gets to a point where it’s
ridiculous,” said White. “I’m
supposed to give up four hun-
dred dollars of my salary every
month and get nothing?

If White chose not to buy
back those ycars and was not

cted or chose to retire,
the monthly — withdrawals
would be refunded.

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Bird said no plans would be made to replace the south cam-
pus with the arts centre without properly providing for those

students. ;
“I guess what we're asking is for them to trust us as we go

through the process.”

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