"CASTLEGAR NEWS, February 11, 1991

es .
es Grime Rashback .

Like all major citles, Toronto kas its share of missing
persons+-Why. do' they disappear? Do many show up?
What happens to most missing persons?

These are some of the questions I posed to Sgt.

n Ele ya veteran: of more than 24.years on
the Metropolitan’ Toronto Police Force and head of
the missing person's branch of the homicide and missing
persons bureau. Elchuck lives with his wife Jeanne an
their two teenage children, Donna, 18, and Mark, i6, ina
comfortable home in suburban Don Mill:

da

f
3

r id

weeks,
which route he would take — either. up thi

and had continued on to
.with friends for a further

unharmed. !
was a. 42-year-old semi.
Toronto’s east end.

. Phyllis. wa:
community relations worker Laurie

1979, Laurie could fet no
ment. She’ reporte

and other evidence of

ome cases end in trageds

her missing and two 0!
dispatched to the apartment. ees :
*. Upon’ gaining entry, they found blocd-on the, floor -

: ars is | aw
-""* MORONTO (CP) — Engin:
for the social impact of thelr -

Once agian, the elusive
days later, le!

tie manner. 3 " 3
Unfortunately, not all mi: rg persons are found

is Farqaber

-invalid; who lived: alone in

3 ', vis!

response front Ehbyills’ apart-
cers were

a struggle, but no‘sign of

Phyllis. .Technically, she became a missing person,
but Elehuck says that when such ‘clear: signs of foul
play are evident, the case. is. ivdmediately ‘investi-
gated by homicide. detectives.. Baty :

checking ‘a. ravine close
her. bod:

rf
to the store, and

te Vaughan. O’Toole,. who, conducted: the ‘inves
ation? explains: 'tiLiza’stmothershatt given henya.
§20' hiil'to buy. milk.. When she didn’t return we
- figured she might have lost the money and_was' afraid to

go home.” Later, when
found in a locked garage,
taken a shortcut ‘throu:
Willden, 17, happened to
: He jured little Li
le

Liza’s ‘decompos

ly: was
the police discovered Liza-had .

ti some back yards. Kevin
home from school that day.

za Kowalski into his home and to-her

- would be arriving hi

*" Ont.! Pua
“MInStitutions,” professions, -

” gers must show more concern

work, says R.M, Dillon, pres{
dent of tho ‘Association ol
Professional . Engineers of
- Ontario, x .
Engineers are geing to be
in: greatest demand across
Canada during the next dec-
ade at least, he’ said in an
interview. 2,
- But“it will not be enough

" Sfor' them . to build bigger

pipelines or cities if they

“ignore the social ramifica-
“‘tlons. of ‘their work; said

Dillon, dgputy minister of
housing in Ontario and form-
er dean of engineering scl-

-Senee at: the University of

Western Ontario in London,

corporations which operate

in or infringe upon the public

realm are increasingly under

“the gun today. They must
justify their position to H

hi 1 an

Kar
ALISON THOMAS — disappe
hway In Santember, 197:

cab a short distance away on Yonge St. Alison st jout
for Yonge St. and has: never’ been seen or, Heard, of’

gain. : : 2

‘Alison was wearing a- faded biue, calf-length denim
dress, and-an off-white heavy woolen cardigan at the time
of her.disappearance, She has long blond hair, blue eyes
and’a fair complexion.-: - Seat re ‘

don her‘ way ta’

suspicious public. ~

. “Engineers as appliers of
science and technology sre
not! immune from public
criticism. We have to be ac-

~. countable and responaible for

what we do.”
SOMESHORTAGES |
There are about 100,000
gi d in Cdn-

Veronica Lynn Kaye, 18; lived. with her gr
Edna Shaw. She always let her grandmother know if she
ome late: Veronica was one of those
teenagers who often hitch-hiked to get from one place to
another.* * z a is ,
‘On Nov. 7, 1980, Veronica showed up at her girlfriend’s
fs

ada,. but Dillon said serious
‘shortages exist in somé en-
gineering fields, ‘In othera,

He suggested ¢
use will have to be ma

part-tim
pro
D
a significant shift i
of the engineer inthe last

eer now fs involved In’ aerp- :
space technology, \: nuclear: ,

science, computers, enviro|
mental protection and
munications...’

There is éven ah ate
involvement in bi
medicine, especially ‘th
velopment of artificial
and organs. 69 90°:335
ding role; of

the public,. Dillon said.
_ BREEDS FEAR.
“The public in many.

ny ways
_lacka an understanding of

technology, | which * in:

breeds a fear; of.techtiology, -”

itself — a fear’ ,of' thé,

known, of forces over. wh

it spems there is no-contro
“We would be foolish.

thealatest
alu”
eE

piace of employment.at 500 Hensel Circle in ‘
eronica indicated she had-arrived in a car, and that
someone was waiting for her to continue on to the Square
e centre. Unt ly, she never gave her
girlfriend, Eiaine ‘Brady, any. iurther information.
Veronica walked out -into the crisp November. after-
noon and has. never beén heard of. since. She is
five-feet two-incHes ‘tall, weighs 120 lbs., hag long
brown hair and: blue-gray eyes. At the time of her
disappearance She was wearing ‘a’ red sleeveless ski
- vest, blue jeans, and running shoes. .. -.: Mach
. Anyone having information concerning any missing
persons mentioned in this column should contact Sgt.
Donald Elehuck, 967-2375. Bee .

aus many: ;
roblem liar. It'is. :. Fay

not a° P
but'we may feel trapped

‘ath. * .
- No. case {5 too old to investigate. Sgt: Elchuck can
per the details surrounding the abduction E po re 700. p
McDowell; certainly one of Canada’s most . 2 zi 2760 ‘ ee . . . E ot re] AN RAT!
Ing persons cases. Marion: was plucked : . " —_ OOS ’ : : a e | to appr : = ‘ % i 5 hy Ruts
iend’s car one evening in December, 1953, - Kelowns, . j 3 tha 3 ve inal, ¥
been seen or heard of sinc : be:

KEVIN WILDEN —fured eight-year-old Liza Kowalski

to her death as she went to the store for her mom.

x, 1980, Elehuck *
into the McDowell
ever

n Mary ‘Thomas i
boyfriend on Hillsdale Aye. in Toronto. Shortly after
mi

te, the file remains open

idnight her boyfriend offered to walk her to the subway.

_ Alison refused the offer,
Os, : tears

‘stating that she would catch a

VICTORIA {CP} — Eliza-
. beth Forbes, whose newspa-
: s per writing wag recognized
: *: with several awards includ-
Aw rd ing canadee pentanlel
. eda}, junday night in

: a hospital. She was 84.
oe oe . She wrote columns for the
» WIEDTENG _ asily Times-Cotonist’ ‘almost
io : until the time of her death.
She joined the Times,
forerunner of the Times-Col-
onist, in the ,1920s and
worked as a in

columnist

after spending two months
there returned to.Canada to

do-a series of talks on the.

country for the CBC.
She received the centen-

nial medal in: 1967 for‘valu-.

able service to the nation and

the British Columbia Centen- ”.

nial Medal in -1971 for ‘out-
standing contribution to pro-
vincial - centennial . cele-
brations. Gee :

She frequently wrote arti-
eles supporting women's
equality and her book .Wild -
Roses at Their Feet, | fea-
turing Vancouver Island's pi-
‘oneer women, was a’ special
centennial issue. .

She ran unsuccessfully as
:, Liberal candidate for Victoria

_2in the 1968 provin
* .tion-* oa

advertising until 1944 when
she became the paper's social”

“dies.
st editor.

She was one of the first Q .
reporters to enter Japan af- -

ter the-Second World War -
peace treaty was signed and

"NOTICE.

im

VERONICA LYNN KAYE — vanished without a trace

after hitching a ride to a

FORDS AND FOOD

Y WINDSOR, ONT. (CP) '—*

Chef Emery Szkely, 72;, who
has lived here for 52 years,
wants to open’.a combined

. museum of ‘éuisine,’ “auto-.

motive history and technol-

: ogy in Windsor. He Hopes to

sell the city’on'the idea of

converting an old.supermar- -
ket, at an estimated cost of °

$1.25 million ‘for purchase
and renovations. at

UTURE LOOKS BI
LEAMINGTON, ONT.

_ | - (CP)— Henry Epp, chairman
‘of the Ontario..Greenhouse

Vegetable “Producers’ ‘mar
keting board, says high oper-
ating costs:are ‘threatening.
the future 6f-th hous

shopping centre. .; -°-

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