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@ WENDY CLARK’S friend is just two weeks old. The duckling was one of several hatched by the kindergarten class at

Ross Road school. The students hatched duck eggs in an incubator and watched
them af Maplewood farm. '

them grow fur two weeks before releasing

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THE CAUSE of the tragic death of four-year-old

Sterling Ewen of West

unknown.

The boy was rushed to
Lions Gate Hospital after
‘suffering from intestinal
problems at a school picnic
with 20 other classmates at
Chelsea House dayeare in
Pauline Johnson School,
West Vancouver Police
reported, ,

Ewen errived at hospital
at 3:20 p.m. Thursday and
died at 4:05 p.m. of
unknown causes, although a
viral infection is believed to
be the tentative cause, Cst.
Colin Bursill reported.

S. Sgt. Henry Indra said
although the lab report veri-
fying cause of death will not
be available until after the
weekend, ‘‘it is reasonably
safe to say that it was not
food poisoning.”

As a precautionary
measure, the other 20
children were brought to

Vancouver is still
hospital from their homes
Thursday evening to be ex-
amined.

Twelve were released that
evening, and cight were kept
overnight for observation.
But all of the children were
released Friday and no
adverse effects were
reported.

Nursing supervisor Doreen
Mitten of Lions Gate
Hospital said the incident
was ‘‘such a shock to
evervbody."’

Mitten said viruses are all
very different — with some
coming on = quickly while
others progress at a slow
rate, showing no symptoms
at first. But she added the
coroner is looking into it.

Bursill said West Van-
couver Police are working
together with the coroner's
office and the North Shore
Department of Health. The
investigation continues.

City tree
root of
resident's

probi

A NORTH

ems

VANCOUVER resident

is upset

because she says the roots of a tree on City prop-
erty are clogging her sewer, pushing up her lawn

and heaving the sidewalk.

She also says the tree is
furge and ‘old, and she is
concerned that a windstorm
could knock it down, hur-
ting her two sons or
dismantling electrical wires.

Bibiana Grossling ap-
peared before City council
Monday night to request the

City cut the tree down,

“Tm a taxpayer,’ Grossl-
ing said. ‘Eve paid enough.
The tree doesn't belong to
me — it's the City’s. Hf the

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