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BRIEFS

aS | Firefighters douse
- wheat pool blazes

NORTH VANCOUVER District Fire Department firefighters ex-
tinguished two fires at the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool grain facility
Monday morning.
Firefighters, arriving at 10:38 a.m., extinguished a fire in the

/ dust collector of a grain-loading system.
h A fire that had spread to a second filter on top of a main
building was also extinguished.

a A fire department spokesman said the fire was likely caused by

tas an auger jamming at the bottom of the dust collecting filter
G : system, .

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Woman searches
for missing son

A DON Mills Ontario womar is appeating to the North Shore
public in her country-wide quest to locate her two-year-old son.

Tatiana Mendez believes her son Pablo Mendez junior (Frogo)
was abducted by her estranged husband Pablo Mendez senior.

The boy disappeared Sept. 9. A warrant has been issued for the
arrest of Mendez senior.

The 29-year-old man is described as being 5°11°* tall, 198 Ibs.,
with black hair, brown eyes and glasses.

Pablo Mendez junior (Frogo) is described as being 3°1°' tall, 40
tbs., with black hair, brown eyes.

He has a white birth mark on the left side of his abdomen.

A $1,000 reward is being cffered to the person with informa-
tion leading to the arrest of the kidnapping suspect.

Information may be forwarded to Metro Toronto Police at

416-324-3300 or Child Find at 1-800-387-7962.

Daycare site to be
posted for lease

THE PROPOSED North Van-
couver District daycare site on
Garibaldi Drive will be posted for
lease until noon on Monday, Oct.
22.

By Martin Millerchip
Contributing Writer

But this time around there is a

. chance that more than one bid

could be accepted.

On July 29 council authorized
the posting of its intention to use
part of the 2.49-acre Garibaldi site
for a temporary daycare.

Four bids were received, in-
cluding one from Warm Fuzzies
Daycare whose loss of space in
Deep Cove had sparked the initial
search for a daycare site.

But the bid from Warm Fuzzies
was declared invalid because it of-
fered more than one monthly
rental figure, and council resolved

* in part **...that all offers to lease

the district-owned land on
Garibaldi Drive be rejected at this
time.”’

NORTH VANCOUVER
DISTRICT COUNCIL

A staff report presented Mon-
day night to council confirmed
that the site could support four
separate daycare facilities of up to
2,658 square feet on permanent
foundations, each with its own
2,018 square feet of playing area.

Twelve parking spaces and a
central turnaround would be pro-
vided, with access from a 26-
foot-wide access road from
Garibaldi Drive together with a
pathway to Osprey Court.

Trees on the site are still being
surveyed, but the planned siting
will allow for optimum retention
of perimeter vegetation to provide
a buffer for bordering residential
neighborhoods.

Council considered the option
of having the access road built to
full municipal standards at a cost
of $62,500 per site, but agreed
that the posting for lease will only

See Deadline page 12

New school would cut busing costs

From page 3 a year to bus kids and these costs
will increase in staggering amounts
the west, and that the board with the cost of fuel going up.

should think long term.
**Already now, there are at least

“And the people in the west are
pleading with us to build a sec-

: 863 kids attending elementary ondary school there,”’ he added.
: schools in the western part of the Board chairman Jean Ferguson
/ schoo! district, including Bowen told her colleagues that ‘‘any
Island and Lions Bay, who will decision we make means taking

have to be bused right past the
Caulfeild Plateau in the future in
order to attend one of the other
secondary schools,’’ Smith said.
“fe currently costs us $400,000

risks, but we have to act rather
than react.

“Here we have an opportunity
to plan. It takes a lot of courage.
but we can’t do nothing."

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