eda se Nm DUE LLNS MORE HEL Fl ght Long- 11-week trip from WV io. Southiands Katharine Hamer News Reporter Ehamer@nsnews.com FOR Leanne Terrace, the cat came back — but not the very next day. The West Vancouver resi- dent's four-year-old tabby, Spice, disappeared into thin air 11 weeks ago. Terrace had been away on business and came back to find Spice missing. Worried that he might have been eaten by a coyote, she nonetheless placed lost and found ads, asked her neigh- bours, and went hunting for the absent feline herself ~ alt to no avail. After two weeks, Terrace gave Spice up as fost for ba Bur. something unexpect- ed happened: last week she got a-call from a vet in Kitsilano. “He said, ‘Are you sitting down, Leanne?’” she remem- bers, “‘because [ve got “gone Cal ¢ ie) oe EEE Friday, August 18, 2000 — North Shore News - 3 Ze ages pedis Petre fy NEWS photo Julle tverson TOGETHER again: Fisherman’s Cove resident Leanne Terrace cuddles her cat Spice, who found his wey home after an 17-week sojourn in the wilds of Vancouver. School fees set for new session Anna Marie D'Angelo News Reporter adangclo@nsnews.cort CHARGES for vari- ous courses and pro- grams were approved in June by both public school boards cn the North Shore. North Vancouver District 44 and West Vancouver District 45 did nat signifi: cantly increase the fees th are charged for items such as workbooks and materials used in woodworking, foods and art classes. That means that the sev- eral hundred dollars most parents pay for a child in public high school and sometimes in in elementary school in September will continue, “[ think that people real- ize this is a fact of life,” said Pat Heal, North Vancouver District School Board chair. trees with him or go in the water with him. 1 thought, Oh, Lord. get me another cat.” Now that Spice is back home, he’s “right back into his old habits. It's like he never left. Although he's a lot skinnier, but that’s OK because before he and food. It seemed to do the trick: Spice was cap- tured and carted off to the vet for identification. “I guess he'd gone hungry tiny enough,” laughs Terrace. She’d had Spice and his brother Cinnamon elec- Spice.” Ie curned out Terrace’s kitty had gone travelling far, far away into the depths of Vancouver. Terrace thinks he might have climbed into a ser- Heal said that if parents have trouble paying the fees, they can contact the child’s school principal. i t vice van or someone’s car and gone for a ride across town. Then a man over in the Southlands area spotted Spice roaming around and spent three weeks trying to entice him with food. Eventually the man enlisted the help of a local vet, who provided him with a cage, some gloves, t i Garbage - scavenging bear shot THE number of prob- fem bears killed this year on the North Shore has declined dra- matically compared to the death toll in 1999. Four bears have been © killed this year. About 25 had died by August.1999, accord- ‘ing to provincial conservation Lofficer Fred Barnes. A bear was shot on ~) Tuesday in the 600-block of » Plymouth Drive near ' Dollarton Highway. Barnes said the. two-year-old bear was scavenging through garbage for about three weeks in the area. On Aug. 13, an adult female bear was killed after it had been tranquilized near 23rd and Mountain Highway in the Lynn Valley area. Barnes said the bear had no front teeth and advanced can- cer. He said bears can lose teeth chomping into tin cans ‘in garbage. “She was not ina condition to, be relocated,” -said Barnes. He’ said Deep Cove was the current “hot “spot” for problem bears. Barnes said the ovo other bears killed. this year were in - eastern North Van District. A method to scare, haze * and ‘re-train- problem bears instead of shooting them has not been implemented by the Nortlr Vancouver RCMP as planned earlier this year. North Shore Black Bear Task . Team spokesperson Evelyn Kirkaldy was unavail- able to press time: Anna Ms arie D’Angela tronically tagged when they were kittens. All the ver had to do was calf a 1-800 number and find out who Spice belonged to. FRANK MILLERD 1913 — 2008 “It was like a miracle,” Terrace recalls. “I was playing with Cinnamon (when the call came}, burt you know, it’s just not quite the same. I can’t go up left the vet had said he needed to lose weight. Now he doesn’t need to go on a dict anymore.” Ironically, Terrace’s new business is an Internet lost-and-found site. “I told my partners we'd have to have a pet sec- tion,” she grins. Millerd managed WY cannery Jan-Christian Sorensen Contributing Writer PROMINENT West Vancouver busi- nessman and community leader Francis (Frank) Millerd pa~sed away Monday at Lions Gate Hospital. He was 87. Francis Webb Millerd was born in Vancouver in 1913 and in his teens began his long career in the fisheries industry when he went to work on the Campbell Avenue fish dock. He joined his father’s company — the Great Northern Cannery in West Vancouver — in 1935, which he went on to co-manage with bis brother Don. LONGTIME West Van resident and volun- teer Francis (Frank) The cannery was located near Cypress Park. It was sold to the Department of Fisheries as a research station in 1968. Frank’s son Bill said that the cannery was the centre of industry in West Vancouver for many years. “Really for the whole time it existed it was the only industry there. West Vancouver basically grew up around it.” A longtime community volunteer, Frank was instrumental in Millerd. _ Starting a scout troop at St. Francis-in-the-Wood Anglican church in Caulfeiid. “He felt it was important and a good movement to keep us kids involved and off the streets,” said Bill, who is the artistic _ Managing director of Vancouver's Arts Club Theatre Company. It marked the continuation of a long association with the scouting movement for Frank, who was a boy scout himself. He went on to serve on various local and provin- cial councils and put his organizational skills to the test when he was named president of the Vancouver-Coast scouting region. He was awarded the Silver Acorn for distin- guished service to scouting by then-Governor General Georges P. Vanier in 1964. “He was certainly a strong community person and it was when West Vancouver was really being formed in the main years of his active life in the "40s and °50s,” said Bill. “I remember him rarely being at home in the evenings. He was always out at one function or another.” Among his many posts, Frank served as a director of the B.C. Chamber of Commerce, president of the West Vancouver Board of Trade, a member of the founding board of Capilano College, amem- ber of the West Vancouver Parks Board and a board member of St. Francis-in-the-Wood. “IT think he felt he had co contribute to the com- munity, because it was very good to him, allowing the cannery to be where it was,” said Bill. A member of the Masonic Order, Frank was also a member of the Capilano Golf and Country Club, He made an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the provincial leg- islature when he ran under the Liberal party colours in 1956. Predeceased by his first wife Helen Gertrude in 1994, Frank married Joan Rhodes the following year. He is survived by Joan, two sisters, three children and eight grandchildren. A memonial service for Frank was held Thursday morning at St. Francis-in-the-Wood. Construction delays Sinfonia debut Katharine Hamer . News Reporter khamer@nsnews.com THOSE eagerly awaiting the debut of the North Shore-based Sinfonia Orchestra will have to wait a little bit longer to hear them play at Centennial Theatre. — Former = Vancouver. Symphony Orchestra conductor Clyde Mitchell’s new ensemble had. been tentatively booked to open the newly-renovated the- atre with a gala performance Sept. 22. But contractors now say. their work won't be completed until the third week of September. Theatre management-will also need a few days after that to arrange the required permits. The official open- ing of the theatre has been set for Oct. 13, with a series of weekend events including children’s concerts, a gala for North Shore Arts Commission fans, a concert by pianist Michael. Kaeshammer and a a drive-in movie screening of Grease: The new completion date, announced on Tuesday, means the first instalment of a planned Sinfonia concert series will be delayed until Oct. 26, when a “Salute to Austria” and champagne gala has been scheduled — with music by- Mozart, Schubert, and Johann Strauss. A special children’s concert wil) take place during the opening weekend, Oct. 15. The VSO, which has a contract to play at Centennial Sepr. 28, will become the See Theatre page 5. West Vancouver District School Board ‘chair David Stevenson said that he paid almost $1,000 in schooi fees last year. “Asa parent of three high school kids, I know what that’s like (to pay school fees). That’s one of the unfortunate realities of pub- lic education today,” said Stevenson, . He said most’ parents don’t remember paying fees for school. Stevenson pointed out that a class used to be taught with one textbook which was likely used for years. Now teachérs often use a long reading list and other materials to teach a class. Stevenson said the cost to teach classes is different from years past. In North Vancouver pub- lic schools one of the highest fees is $250 (up from $230): for elementary school band and strings program. Outdoor © school for North Vancouver students: for Grade 6 is $165, $75 for Grade 4 and $95 for Grade ‘In West Vancouver, the outdoor school experience for elementary — students ranges for $85 to $250 per youngster. Depending on the high school, a student taking Spanish can pay $10 to $2i to. take the course. Photography students can pay $30 to $55 depending on the school and grade. The ‘student activity fee for- high school is $40 in North Vancouver and West Vancouver public schools except’ at Keith) Lynn Alternate Secondary where i it: is $55. : Other extras include the year book at $30 to $40 dol- lars depending, on the school. : Grad fees are extra. Field trips, special events and extra curricular activities: - require recovery of costs. Athletic fees can n also add up.