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BLAIR Cooke-Dallin never wants to hear a smoke

detector again.

Cooke-Dallin, a North
Shore News display ad
salesman, evacuated his wife
and nine-month-old daugh-
ter from his North Van-
couver home Sunday after a
smoke alarm alerted him to
a fire in the basement suite.

But Cooke-Dallin§ only
wishes the alarm had been
properly installed in the
basement suite giving
Richard Bready a chance to
also reach safety.

Bready, 30, cousin of the
suite’s tenant, was pro-

nounced dead on arrival at.

Lions Gate Hospital -after
the Nov.:24 fire.

According to Cooke-
Dallin, the smoke detector in
the. basement suite was
found’ on top of the
dishwasher, instead of being
properly mounted on the

ceiling. He
said he did not know why it
was there.

Cooke-Dallin, owner of
the house at 122 West Kings

Road, said he and wife

Diana were just getting
ready for bed at 9:50 p.m.
when they heard a persistent
beeping noise. investigating,
they checked the fire alarm
on the top floor of the
house, but were puzzled to
discover it was not activated
and the beeping was conti-
nuing.

But as they opened the
door to daughter Jaimie’s
room and saw thick black
smoke coming from a heat

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Page 4

NORTH Vancouver’s education. system is in
danger of running aground in shallow financial

waters.

That message was
delivered in a report to the
North Vancouver School
Board Tuesday night by
Andy Krawezyk, president
of the North Vancouver
Teacher’s Association.

The NVTA report,
Krawezyk said, was a sum-
mary of the effects District
44 education facilities,
teacher morale and working
conditions had suffered
through the financial

restraint of the past four
years.
_ Dwindling support staff,
increasing class sizes, fewer
materials and heavier teacher
workloads were taxing
teacher abilities to properly
carry out their duties and
driving teacher moral to low
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Wwemory of fire

SNOWPLOW ‘rapidly: became a familiar sight on the North Shore this’ week after several centimetres ‘of. snow made

estmount exi

i driving treacherous, N:

ews photographer lan Smith caught snowplows pushing snow off the Upper Level