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Cities split on burning garbage Surrey cautiously in favour of plan; Vancouver opposed by Jeff Nagel METRO VANCOUVER’S two big-

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Engineers take a close look at a portion of the roof at Colebrook Elementary that collapsed on Friday.

Chunk of school roof falls Cause of Colebrook Elementary collapse unknown; other structures examined by Sheila Reynolds ENGINEERS WERE on-site at Surrey’s Colebrook

Elementary on Monday afternoon to examine a lengthy portion of roof that crashed to the ground on Friday. Laurae McNally, chairperson of the Surrey Board of Education, confirmed a stretch of roof overhang and soffit measuring about 75 feet long separated from the main roof of the building and fell to the cement below – without warning. “Very, very luckily, nobody was injured,” she said. “School is out. However, kids do play on school grounds.”

A parent told CTV News that during the school year, kids routinely line up under where the roof collapsed, and kindergarten teacher Suzanne Dennis said if she or her students had been there, “it would have been horrendous.” The site was fenced off over the weekend and a security guard has been patrolling around the clock. It will be a week or more before the district receives a report revealing what may have happened. “The board is very concerned and we are awaiting the results of the engineers’ report,” McNally said. She said it’s unclear how much repairs to the building, located near 54 Avenue and 125A Street,

will cost. Any clean-up and restoration will be delayed until the inspections are complete. The school underwent a seismic upgrade last year, but McNally said district staff do not believe the roof collapse is related to the recent upgrade project. The school has had several additions built on over the past number of years. The portion of the roof that came down was part of a 1987 addition. McNally noted staff are also examining other portions of Colebrook Elementary and any structures like it in the Surrey School District that are of similar design or were built around the same time in the late 1980s.

gest cities are coming down on opposite ends of the contentious debate over stepped-up garbage incineration. Vancouver city council opposes burning more garbage and voted last Thursday to table an amendment to Metro’s proposed solid waste plan that would eliminate incineration or combustion from the menu of allowed waste-to-energy technologies. That would exclude a new mass burn plant like the existing one in Burnaby, but may leave the door open to other less-proven alternatives like gasification. Vancouver also wants Metro to set new targets Heather Deal to reduce the average amount of waste each resident generates and to ban all wood and organic waste from both landfills and incinerators. “The priority is to have less garbage at the end of the day,” Vancouver Coun. Heather Deal said, adding all of the proposed amendments “push us in that direction.”

“The priority is to have less garbage...”

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- with files from CTV

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