Vandals Set Fire at Highbush SPACES AVAILABLE Call for a Tour Mattresses Dragged Dumpster and Lit Them on Fire Near Are Deliberate Acts.” Phalt
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The Pickering 20 PAGES ✦ Pressrun 48,900 ✦ Metroland Durham Region Media Group ✦ SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2007 ✦ Optional delivery $6 / Newsstand $1 Check out our website project winners Page 3 On the scene mediamash.ca with Stefanie Swinson • First with News • First with Sports • First with Entertainment Police are in the zone with drivers Back-to-school lesson for motorists By Jeff Mitchell [email protected] DURHAM — Looking for the an- swer to traffic safety in your young- sters’ school zones? You might want to take a look in the mirror. That’s the conclusion of a Dur- ham traffic cop after a week-long back-to-school blitz resulted in hundreds of charges, many of them laid against people who were drop- Jason Liebregts/ News Advertiser photo Highbush Public School principal John Briggs stands in front of school property that was the scene of a recent arson. ✦ See More, Page 4 Blaisdale B I Montessori L A R I O S S D S A L T E E M O N School Vandals set fire at Highbush SPACES AVAILABLE Call for a tour Mattresses dragged dumpster and lit them on fire near are deliberate acts.” phalt. its kindergarten entrance, causing While clean up to the school “And this will all be done within and torched in front of minor smoke damage inside and occurred, kindergarten kids in a couple of days,” said Ms. Millar 905-509-5005 kindergarten entrance burning a set of steel frame doors. the area affected were paired with earlier this week. www.blaisdale.com 12 months - grade 8 “And they did the exact same other kindergarten classes. Ms. Last year, the kindergarten thing last spring with a couch that Millar said the junior kindergar- classes laminated a lot of the paper By Crystal Crimi had been left in front of a dump- tens start school through a gradual stuff so it wouldn’t hold any smoke [email protected] ster,” said Lisa Millar, superinten- entry, so they didn’t have a full smell, said Ms. Millar. dent of Pickering schools. class yet. Those students were Once the school is repaired and 35.2//-3s7).$/73s$//23 Join us for our PICKERING — For the second Three windows were also temporarily paired with other kin- students are back in their proper Customer Appreciation Day time in three months, a fire was smashed in this weekend’s inci- dergarten classes. classes, she’ll start working on Saturday September 22, set outside the kindergarten en- dent. Ms. Millar did not have an Repair work includes purifying plans with community members 10am - 2:30pm trance at Highbush Public School estimate of repair costs available. the air, cleaning the coat rooms, including school administration, FREE BBQ, FACE PAINTING, on Stroud’s Lane. “It’s really unfortunate this type painting the kindergarten foyer, the school community council, JUMPING CASTLE. Late Sunday night or early Mon- of vandalism is occurring,” she replacing the outside doors, ceil- and the fire department, to see 239 Station St., Ajax day morning, vandals dragged two said. “It is a really big inconve- ing tiles, and the steel in the door mattresses left beside the school’s nience and it’s senseless... these overhang; and, cleaning the as- ✦ See School, Page 4 905-686-2445 Runs on North America’s fastest network. Works around the world. 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