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Body Found i in culvert

A 64-YEAR-OLD North Vancouver woman whose
body was found in a culvert Wednesday drowned
and did not die of exposure as originally suspected.

lan Marshall of the cor-
oner’s office confirmed the
finding Friday and said his
office would likely conduct
an inquiry into the cir-
cumstances of the death of
Anne Skinner Pocklington.

The elderly woman disap-
peared from her North Van-
couver residence on Tucsday
evening, wearing only a night
gown according to North

Vancouver RCMP.

Her body was discovered
in a culvert at Westview and
2%h Street at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday police say.

The police investigation in-
to the death has ruled out the
possibility of foul play and
indicates Pocklington may
have been trying to sleep in
the culvert at the time of her
death.

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dent School space at
Hamilton | Secondary
School has ‘raised a
furore here and
in Victoria.

West Vancouver-Howe
Sound raised the refusal in
the legislature the day after
the School Board district
agreed on a proposal to con-
solidate school district offices
in the school rather than lease
it’ to. the ‘newly-established
private school.

Education Minister Jack
Heinrich said he would took

_inte the decision and: Friday
“morning John Humphiies. of
the Independent ‘School

Society travelled to Victoria
to meet with a deputy
minister in the education
ministry.

At the centre of the ‘con-
troversy is the school board’s
decision to move its
12-member maintenance
staff to the school in the near
future and eventually move
its central office staff. into
Hamilton School. wt

The two picces of property
currently used for. the
maintenance crews and cen-
tral office would then be sold
on the open market. .

That decision, recom-
mended by the board’s
surplus facilities committee,
puts. an end to a proposal for-
warded by the group attemp-
ting to establish the indepen-
dent school to pay $500,000
in rent for the Hamilton, site

Ministers *
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