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PAGE 4THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, MAY 30,2001 Road closed as police search school campus Bomb threat 'not linked' to disappearance of school's owner, say police BY JENNIFER STONE Staff Writer BOWMANVILLE Durham Regional Police carried carried out a bomb search at Great Lakes College in Bowmanvillc Sunday, at the request of another another police force probing the mysterious mysterious disappearance of the school's owner. However, police arc not linking linking the weekend bomb scare with the disappearance of Thomas Ku, 4S, who hasn't been seen since May 15. That's when Mr. Ku called his Mississauga Mississauga home from work in Bowmanvillc Bowmanvillc indicating he would be home soon. Though his car was seen in his Mississauga driveway driveway about an hour later, there was no indication Mr. Ku entered entered his home. The Durham Regional Police Police bomb dog was sent in to search the property at the Great Lakes College campus at Lambs Road and Concession Street, at the request of Peel Regional Regional Police, who arc investigating investigating Mr. Ku's disappearance. The search came after a phone call indicated a bomb may be on site, says DRP Sergeant Paul Malik. But, the search was "not linked to him," Sgt. Malik notes, referring to Mr. Ku. "They (police) searched the school with negative results," he notes. Both the Bowmanvillc and the Kcclc Street campus of the school in Toronto were searched, he says. Lambs Road in Bowmanvillc Bowmanvillc was closed from noon until about 5 p.m. as the search was carried out, says the sergeant. Last week, Peel Regional Police would not confirm reports reports that a ransom demand for Mr. Ku's safe return had been received, saying only that a team of investigators have been working on the case 24 hours a day. Monday, the disappearance remained under investigation, with nothing new to report, says Constable Heather Andrews of Peel police. The agency has said police have found nothing in Mr. Ku's background that would suggest an abduction or kidnapping, but have not ruled out foul play. Mr. Ku, who came to Canada Canada from Taiwan 14 years ago, is owner and principal of Great Lakes College, a private school attended mostly by students from Hong Kong, China and Taiwan. The school opened its Bowmanvillc campus in 1999. -files by Torstar News Service WALTER PASSARELUV Statesman photo A brand new van CLARINGTON - The Clcirington Project has purchased itsjlrst accessible van through various fund-raising efforts. Volunteer bus driver Ralph Kellet, left, and Jeff Plonger help Candy Goodwin in for a ride. The Clarington Project is a co-operative endeavour of persons persons with disabilities, their families, friends, community agencies and businesses. 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"Twenty-one have cleared the ESBL E. coli on their own; four people may have had the organism as a contributing factor in their death, along with other serious medical conditions, conditions, and another 21 elderly people have died who were at one time ESBL carriers but we have no reason to suggest suggest ESBL as a contributing cause of death." Of the four deaths here, pneumonia was a factor in three cases, Dr. Reynolds said, noting in the fourth case, the E. coli bacteria had entered the individual's individual's blood. Dr. Barbara Yaffe, the associate medical officer of health for Toronto, told reporters the City's health department department was informed of one individual who had tested positive for the bacteria. The person had transferred from Durham to a long-term facility in Scarborough. Scarborough. She said the three roommates of the individual have since become positive, but all are fine. The strain has also spread into York Region said Bill Mindell, director of infectious infectious disease control with the York Region Health Services Department, who reported the Region began an investigation investigation on May 11 to try and determine determine the extent of the outbreak. "A recent transfer from a nursing home had tested positive," he said, noting noting the testing has found that more than 50 per cent of the residents in one facility facility are positive. He would not release the name of that facility or the number of people who had tested positive at that site. "We've begun screening in all of the nursing homes in York Region," he said, noting there are about 20 facilities. To date, five homes have been cleared, while tests in another two homes have Identified one positive case in each site. "It's concentrated in one home," he said, noting there is also one death under investigation in York Region. 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