JUNE 28, 1998 mah Classifieds J rr Eressword Health Trends Home Reno North Shore Alert : Tathing Personais ; Travel Wedding Gitts ee 22 56 Pages Cause of || Paine fire a mystery Robert Galster News Reporter robert@usnews.com WHERE there’s smoke there’s fire and it follows where there’s a fire there’s a cause. North Vancouver City's chief fire prevention officer Dave Burgess knows that much. Untortunately he knows little more than that when it comes to pinpointing the cause ef the mysterious and spectacular blaze that gutted Lower Lonsdale’s Paine Hardware last New Year's ew “2. Pending further intorma- tion coming forward we've ed the file,” said Burgess of his department's investigation into the fire. “Its very ditticult because we've put a lor of hours and expertise into it and didn’t get the result we wanted.” Burgess said investysators spent 17 full days at the site fol- lowing the blaze and continued pouring, over various irems ever See Fietnre page 2 Contract c Robert Galster News Reporter robert@nsnuews.com BRITISH Columbia’s education minister has told teachers and trustees throughout the province to start getting along. “Cm going to put the raonkey firmly on the backs of teachers and trustees to implement this programy and work well,” Ramsey said on Friday after announcing his decision to legislate a three-year contract agreement between the gwe sides He added thar school trustees and teachers have 4 cessfully bargain a collecove agreement betwee themselves after yOL Ge ste Grantle dame 173 0 North Vancouver's Grand Roulevard is one of a kind Canada #2 uly ? holiday the focus of classifieds special feature Swimwear tips: suit up for fun in the sun Beauty and the heach p15 Ballet bound Local schoo! districts find it hard ta swallow imposed teachers’ deal they rejected four years of trying. Vhe contract Ramsey is imposing on the two sides was drawn up by the B.C chers Federation and government. Negotiations benveen teachers and 2 group) representi province's school districts bad previously stalled. But when the completed contract was presented to the school boards tor their approval, die boards didn’t wreet in with open arms. VANLEENA Dance Academy students Simone Kingman, 11, Amanda Ghahremani, 10, and Shana Smith, 14, are in school this summer. Kingman, left, and Ghahremani, in front, are at the National Ballet School in Toronto. Smith is at Walnut Hill Ballet Schoo! in Boston. Over 87% of the province’s 60 school distnets, including both taken over the ist few weeks. The three-year deal features contentious primary grade class- size reductions. Under the agreement, Kindergarten classes will be capped at 20; within three vears Grades 1 to 3 will be capped at 2 students, Et also calls her wage increases until the year 2000 when a 2% wage hike is scheduled. “We knew when we voted because we were one of the last boards to votre — that the vast majority of the boards voted against it,” said West Vancouver School District 45 chairman Chive ! “We were disappointed but not surprised (by news of the pending Funding pane 2 fa VISITS $ 120 isin 2 ” SUMMER SHAPE-UP INTRODUCTORY OFFER TRY US WITH A FRIEND 10 VISITS EACH P SEPARATE FACILITIES FOR WOMEN ONLY AND/OR CO-ED 986-9177