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          MOULD SQUEEZES KIDS\PEEL SCHOOLS ASK CITY FOR
          SPACE
          MOULD SQUEEZES KIDS\PEEL SCHOOLS ASK CITY FOR SPACE 
          BYLINE: JOHN SCHMIED, PEEL BUREAU
          EDITION: Final 
          SECTION: News 
          MISSISSAUGA --   Some kids could start the new school year in city 
          libraries and community centres if council agrees to the request by 
          two school boards yesterday.
              The Peel District and Dufferin-Peel Roman Catholic separate school 
          boards asked a general committee of city council for the space to 
          help them deal with mouldy school portables.
               "It's very important we have the (city) space because we have 
          run out" of options, said Janet McDougald, chairman of the Peel District 
          board.
              Both boards have had to deal with Stachybotrys atra mould in hundreds 
          of portables across the region. The mould has been linked to respiratory 
          ailments, headaches and nausea.
              While classes have been moved out of the infected portables and 
          into school libraries and gymnasiums, both McDougald and Kevin O'Connor,
           superintendent of planning and development for the separate board,
           said work on the problem will continue through the summer.
              Both boards are repairing salvageable portables and renovating 
          school buildings to provide proper classroom spaces. Some of the work 
          will not be completed until late November.
              O'Connor said his board has fixed 368 classrooms to date and will 
          have all elementary portables fixed by the start of school in September.
              Council passed a resolution to co-operate with the boards and 
          to come to a decision this month so students will know where to attend 
          classes.  
          © Copyright 1999 from The Toronto Sun unauthorized reproduction prohibited.
          JOHN SCHMIED, PEEL BUREAU, MOULD SQUEEZES KIDS\PEEL SCHOOLS ASK CITY FOR
          SPACE. , The Toronto Sun, 06-17-1999, pp 46. 
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