logtee WEATHER: Increasing cloud, some _ showers Wed. & Thurs. Highs 8-11° CLASSY: 19 Cadillac services. Feature writer Barrett Fisher investigates luxury MEATY: 31 A look at North Shore based Beef . Centre. LOST ON GROUSE ‘lt was hungry and scared’ A WRONG turn on an unfamiliar ski run led 13-year-old Fritz Anker to the edge of an icy cliff and.a two-day exercise in survival on Grouse Mountain. Anker, who was on a Bell- the edee of an icy cliff, sup- ingham school ski trip, ported only by the backs of found himself hanging off - his two skis, and trying to Future of schoo THE PROCESS of talking about schools’ has begun on the North Shore as the provincial zov- ernment’s Let’s Talk about Schools sessions get under way. The first in’ a series of meetings being held in North of Education on the future of public education in the and West Vancouver went province. : off as scheduled Monday In North Vancouver, the evening. Meetings continue process began Monday night this week and nent. at Windsor Secondary The public sessions feature School, continues this even- PURSUED by the media after just being released from Lions Gate Hospital Monday, p.m., at Secondary. A similar public informa- tion meeting was held last night in West Vancouver. As well as the public in- formation meetings, formal sessions are both North and West Van- couver formal briefs by interested groups and individuals. By BARRETT tER lift himself to safety with his ski poles after following tracks off the Purgatory ski run Friday. “T had never been down Balmoral Junior scheduled for for the receipt of the film ‘Lens Talk About ing with a 7:20 pa. meeting The North Voneouver Schools’ aad small group oat Argyle Secondary and meeting will be held Mon- discussion on proposals soncludes next Monday with day. March Fi, at Queen from the provincia) Ministry a meeting, again at 7:30) Mary Community Sehool Information the run before,”’ Fritz said Monday, just before he was released from Lions Gate Hospital after being treated for exposure, ‘1 tried to take my skis off and hoist myself out with my poles, but I] wasn't very NEWS photos Stuart Davis Feitz Anker takes a break, while his father Jorg Anker talks to the television people. Because Fritz is an American citizen, Jorg Anker paid the over $400 hospital bill, a small price for the boy's life. The 13-year-old Bellingham boy was fost on Grouse Mountain for 48 hours. while the West Vancouver school board has scheduled sessions Mond Tuesday and Wednesday of next week, tn both instances, abstracts of briefs must. be submitted to the appropriate board in advance. In North Vancouver briefs must be in the hands of the school district, by March §&. The deadline for contacting the West Vancouver School Board about the pres- entation of briefs is) Friday FOR MUMS: 35 Maternity wear flatters your changing shape. successful. | grabbed some twigs to pull myself up, they snapped, and I fell.”” Anker suffered minor injuries in the fall. Worse, it left him separated from his class with no one aware that he was missing on the mountain. Fis schoolmates headed home thinking Anker had been picked up by his father; his father assumed the boy had returned home with his classmates. “Tr was a case of crossed wires,” says Jorg Anker, the boy's father. *'L think tt was irresponsible of the school to take off without everyone being accounted for. “T just assumed [ had been too late and the school took him with them. 1 checked with first aid, and the rental return, but he had his own equipment, so they wouldn't have known."” Jorg Anker is very aware that the ‘crossed wires’ could have caused Fritz’s death, but the Grade 8 Catholic school student proved to be a survivor. “It was just a mater of common sense — | don’t have any survival train- ing,” the youth says of the two days and two nights he spent on the mountain be- fore being discovered. Anker, dressed in his ski clothing and ski boots, had no food with him, but he ate snow, drank from small rivers he came across, and slept in hollowed trees for of this week. As well as the public in- formation meetings and the more formal sessions associated with) the Let's Talk About Schools process, residents can respond through forms that are being provided by the Ministry of Education. The forms, available at school board of- fices or locai schools can be mailed directly to Victoria. Copies of the Lets Tatk About Schools discussion paper are abe available 3 - Wednesdays, February 20. 1985 - North Shore News Business..........25 Car Market........19 Classified.........43 Entertainment ..... 28 Fashion.......... 35 Food.............40 Sports............22 TV Times.........30 What’s Going On. . .27 protection. “*Y wanted to keep walk- ing when [| could. | didn't want to stay in the same place, just in case. I tried to find the tram. I was hungry and scared. | kept yelling for people until 1 got too tired, too worn out,’* he says. Anker was found Sun- day by two hikers near the Seymour watershed, sever- al miles from where he began. ‘ “Eb thought | was near the tram, and then | had to rest,” Anker says of his rescue. ‘'l heard two guys walking up the hill — they were hikers. | asked where the tram: was and they looked at me funny. ‘You're a way off,’ they said. ‘The tram’s about five iniles in the other direction." They realized that | was out of it and they took me to the Moun- ties.” Anker was taken to Lions Gate Hospital Sun- day to be treated for ex- posure, The only other in- juries he experienced were a bronchial tube leak, and serapes to his face and hands. “I also ripped my pants and lost my glove — and both my skis,"” he says. Anker will be staying with his father in Port Co- quitlam for che next few days, before he returns to his home in Bellingham. He won't, he says, be going skiing again for a while. s debated through schools and the school board offices. Similar forums are being held throushout the province to seek response to the educacion ministry's background paper which minister Jack Heinrich bas described ay ‘the beginning of a process to determine the future direction and em- phasis of provincial school- ing and, ultimately, as a means of guiding revisions to existing school legisla. tion,"