NEWS
BRIEFS

Man killed at
Neptune Terminals

A FATAL industrial accident at Neptune Bulk Terminals claimed
the life of a 45-year-old Burnaby man early Saturday morning.
Thomas Donald Johnston was unloading urea crystals from a
railcar into a hopper shortly after midnight Saturday when he fell
through a manhole onto a conveyor belt and was buried by the

ures.

North Vancouver City firefighters and Neptune employees
climbed into the hopper with shovels in a bid to dig Johnston out,
and members of the North Vancouver unit of the B.C. Am-
bulance Service worked in the hopper to try to restore Johnston's

breathing.

Vancouver Ports Corp. spokesman Trace Acres said it was at
least 10 minutes before “‘anyone could get te him.*’
But Johnston was pronounced dead on arrival at Lions Gate

Hospital.

Acres said Ports Canada, the B.C. Coroner’s Office and Labor
Canada have all launched investigations into the accident.

Rape suspect
sought

SURREY RCMP are asking
for the public’s help in finding
Randall Scott Haig, 36, who is
wanted on a Canada-wide war-
rant for parole violation, sex-
ual assault with a weapon and
numerous other charges.

The charges were laid against
Haig as a result of a Nov. 28,
1989 incident in Surrey in
which a female was sexually
assaulted.

Haig was jailed Nov. 29,
1973 at Oakville, Ont., after he
was convicted on charges of
rape and sexual assault. He
was released from custody on
full parole on December 23,
1983.

Haig, a white male, is
decribed as being 673’’ tall,
weighing 160 Ibs. with short
brown hair and blue eyes.

Anyone knowing Haig’s

whereabouts is asked to call the
Surrey RCMP at 599-0502.

Randall Scott Haig
...Canada-wide warrant.

Daycare closure
threat questioned

THE OPERATORS of the Warm Fuzzies Daycare Centre
have questioned the announcement by the president of a
competing Deep Cove daycare that she will close her 150-
child operation in protest over alleged North Vancouver
District Council interference in private enterprise.

Susan Dronyk says the decision
of Umeeda Switlo to close My
Little School is not because of any
subsidy that Switlo alleges Warm
Fuzzies received from the North
Vancouver District Council.

“If Ms. Switlo genuinely closes
her centre, it will not have been
because of the municipality or
Warm Fuzzies Daycare Centre,”
Dronyk said. ‘‘It will be because
she chooses to do so or because of
other reasons that force her to do

sO.

Switlo had charged in a July 29
News story that Warm Fuzzies
had received what amounted to a
subsidy when it was allowed to
use the open space playground at
Panorama Park for free contrary
to childcare licensing requirements
for enclosed play space.

But Dronyk said Warm Fuzzies’
previous Gallant Avenue location
met all provincial licensing re-
quirements and was licensed.

Warm Fuzzies, she said, had
asked North Vancouver District
Council for subsidized land, but
was considered ineligible because
the daycare, owned by her hus-
band, Michael Dronyk, is a not a
registered, non-profit society.

By Elizabeth Collings
News Reporter

‘“*We certainly requested sub-
sidized land due to daycare facili-
ties working on a tight budget and
not, in our view, being commer-
cial ventures,’* Dronyk said.

After they were hit with an $800
rent increase, the Dronyks were
caught without a permanent loca-
tion for Warm Fuzzies.

Dronyk said they didn’t relin-
quish their first site until they
received written approval from the
North Vancouver District 44
School Board for another loca-
tion, but the school board has
since withdrawn its permission.
Dronyk is seeking legal advice on
the matter.

Meanwhile, Switlo still intends
to bid on the Garibaldi Drive site
that was put to tender last week
by North Vancouver District
Council for use as a daycare.

But she said she was concerned
that the criteria council will use in
its decision — a series of ques-
tions regarding the finances and
logistics behind the bid — is
slanted.

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