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March 9, 1997

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Expansian plans
given go-ahead
By Anna Marie D'Angelo
News Reporter

THE provincial gov-
ernment loosened its
debt-ridden purse
strings on Friday
allowing 37 school
construction projects
to go ahead.

Among the construction pro-
jects finally getting the green
light is an upgrade to West
Vancouver secondary.

The provincial government
froze capital spending in July just

WEATHER

Monday: Periods of raw,
High 9C low C.

NEWS photo Paul McGrath
MYKIKO Yoshioko’s daughter Yukari is in intensive care in Lions Gate Hospital. Yukari’s six-figure bili has already claimed $40,000
her parents had set aside for her wedding in Japan and continues to climb at more than $1,000 a day.

as West Vancouver School District
45 was readying to tender the
contract to rebuild a 22-class-
room wing at the high school.

The new wing, estimated to
cost $6.7 million, will increase
the school’s capacity from 800 to
1,100 students.

It was to be built by
September 1997 when District
45 planned to change the school
from a Grade 10 to 12 facility to
a Grade 7 to 12 school.

Friday’s announcement pro-
mises that West Vancouver sec-
ondary students will be using the
new wing within two to three
years, acording to the Ministry
of Education, Skills and Training.

Moncey was also made available
on Friday for the planning stage of
renovations to Sentinel secondary
school in West Vancouver.

Sentinel’s renovations are
currently estimated to cost more
than $1 million.

Planning for the expansion of
Handsworth secondary in North
Van was also approved on Friday.

The school, which is designed
to handle 1,000 students, has a
current student enrolment of
1,322.

The estimated cost of
Handsworth’s expansion is $3.5
multion.

The government announced
that $300 million will be spent
on school construction in 1997
and 1998

in the next four years, 95
schoai construction projects are
scheduled.

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Japanese visitor battling for her life faces financial ruin

By lan Noble
News Reporter

ON New Year’s Eve, a smiling 25-
year-old Yukari Yoshioko enjoyed an
evening with the Three Tenors at B.C.
Place.

It marked the end of a hectic two wecks for the native
of Okayama City in Japan.

She had signed up for English lessons at the Canadian
Language Centre downtown, moved into a home in
North Vancouver and had attended a few parties after
arriving in very healthy form from Japan on Dec. 16.

However, the day after Yoshioko heard The Three
Tenors, she complained about cold symptoms.

franian cultural
centre proposed
for North Shore

Two days later, she couldn’t get out of bed. An ambu-
lance took her to Lions Gate Hospital. Her condition
rapidly deteriorated and she was moved to the intensive
care unit Jan. 9.

According to Dr. Warren Mayo, Yoshioko suffers from
bilateral pneumonia.

“Iris still unclear whether she will survive this tragic ill-
hess,” said Mayo in 2 note . 28.

On Friday, after doctors estimated she would live 48 hours
or less three times, Yoshioko clung to life in the hospital's
intensive care unit with her mother Mykiko by her side.

According to Stewart Madill, Lions Gate Hospital vice-
president of medical diagnostic services, Yoshioko's pneu-
monia is severe and very rare.

“By far the vast majority of people who get pneumonia

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Winter Games

athletes return
with medals

tab rockets
ck student

JAPANESE student Yukari

Yoshioko battling pneumo-
nia at Lions Gate Hospital.

New Playhouse
artistic director
Glynis Leyshon

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