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Anna Marie D'Angelo

News Reporter
dangelo@nsnews.com

TWO North
Vancouver men
pleaded guilty on
Wednesday to sever-
al charges of traf-
ficking in PCP
(Angel Dust).

Mark Helmut Ehlers, 27,
and fsak Meissner, 22, had
been scheduled for a trial ona
13-count drug tra ing,
indictmenr.

Six RCMP drug section
alticers waited ta testify at the
North Vancouver provincial
court house on East) 23rd
Street,

But lawy nt trial rime
outide the courtroom nego:
tating guilty ple

Ehlers and Mei
invelved in five drug transa
tions in what undercover offi
cers thought was the drag
Festasy (MIDMA). But labora:
tory analysis revealed the drug

hased was PCP ow Ange!

Ange! Dust is an- animal
tranquilizer that causes
extreme praysical and meital
behaviour im humans. “Phe
behaviour includes hallucina-
tions, violent hostility and
povchoses.

tasy oor MDMA Gs a
mood-altering drag thar pro-
duces mild euphorn.

Eestasy is the drug of
choice of young people at
raves —- all-night dance par-
ties held in’ obscure Jocales
such as warchouses.

Federal Crown lawyer Jay
Straith said in court that he
would ask for sentences “high

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nd, David Gilley, and Christine Mehain are concerned about the lack of prop-

er ventilation at their school. Carisbrooke is one of four schools targeted for mechanical upgrades by District 44.

Katharine Hamer
News Reporter katharine@usnews.com

BY now, most people are aware of
“sick building syndrome” — aging
office blocks with poor ventilation
where germs spread like wildfire,

especially ia the winter months.
Bur it scems the problem goes farther than that.
Schools across the Lower Mainland are also plagued b
tbstandard air quality — and those in’ North
Ncouver are amongst those suffering most.
District 44 is zeroing in. on the problem at four of

Poor ventilation affects
children and teachers

its worst affected: schools: Braemar, isbrooke,
Canyon Heights, and Sutherland.

Grade 6 students at Carisbrooke are well aware of
the problem.

“Sometimes when | go to school f tel tine in the
morning and sick when T get home,” said Hanna
Rebane.

“We usually have the windows open even when it’s
cold, because it gets really stafty in here and it’s hard

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to breathe,”
hy Jassmuate Bess Kennedy, “vou have
to take really deep breaths.”
aid Brian O°Connor, medical health officer tor the
rth Shore Health Region, *You normally recover
(from exposure to carbon dioxide or fungi) once vou
leave the building, but if you re-expose yourself 12
hours Jater, the recovery time may be much longer and
cause chronic problems like headaches and allergic
reactions.”
Though ©°Connor said that infections spread
among school childres are more Bkely to be caused by
close proximity, “in buildings wich poor ventilation,

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