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weekender august 30 1986 p3 slept in phone booth markham teen safe at home una skleryk pushed her daughter karen past reporters and into their raymerville home wednesday after the 14yearold girl was found by an aunt in north york rob donnelly jog elimination at warden is approved expropriation measures were approved by regional council thursday for markam to secure land needed to realign 16th ave on both sides of warden ave the expropriation is needed as part of the towns project to widen warden ave from south of hwy 7 to a halfkilometre north of 16th ave site preparation for next years work has been ongoing in the area this year regional councillor ron moran said 16th ave on the west side of warden ave will be routed north to meet 16th ave on the east side thereby eliminating the jog we need those properties and have negotiations going on now to acquire the land said mr moran in an interview we hope to start in the spring next year ed and clattdetfe afrp75s0 when we get home i want you to phone your mother by robert donnelly while most of us slept safe and sound in our homes during tues days violent thunderstorm 14- yearold karen skleryk says she spent the night alone outside york mills subway station in a tele phone booth at 330 pm with the sun still shining karen went to the park adjacent to her markham home on beck drive she told her sister emily 15 that she would be back in time for dinner karen did not return lightly clad in only plaid shorts and a navy blue and white tshirt karen was illprepared for the cool weather that evening she carried with her about 4 in pock et money and some markham transit bus tickets for almost two hours the skleryk family looked for her but came up empty the skleryks contacted her friends drove around the neigh borhood and visited the corner mall hoping to find their soft- spoken daughter they didnt worried for her safety espe cially in the wake of recent child abductions they decided to con tact york regional police from 730 pm tuesday until she was found the following day at 420 pm york regional police and opp mobilized an exhaustive search for the missing child police employed two helicop ters one donated by an area re sident frogmen and three teams of tracking dogs to criss cross the park a nearby tribut ary and the playground area un successfully for clues that might reveal her whereabouts a large group of volunteers made up of family friends and concerned citizens went from house to house in the raymerville area asking questions and inquir ing into any possible leads that might help find her i cant see her walking around and going somewhere strange said karens cousin teresa skleryk its a new area and shes not an adventurous girl the skleryks had just moved into the area in april from scar borough she stays very close to home she said fearing the worst and concluding that the freckled little girl was probably abducted by a stranger while walking through the park ten minutes before a massive volunteer manhunt was to start the mobile police command post set up next to ramer wood public school received a phone call karen been found the grade 8 st matthew catho lic school student had been disco vered by her aunt elsie zander wandering aimlessly in the yonge st wilson ave area of north york karen told her parents that she had spent much of the 24 hours she was missing riding the subway system when asked by reporters out side her home where she was that night she nervously replied in a phone booth adding that it was great to be home although her mother una skleryk was too upset to speak to the media her father harry skleryk a pipefitter at cp rail explained the sketchy details surrounding his daughters dis appearance apparently karen while walk ing through the park became frightened by a stranger believ ing that she was being pursued she boarded a bus eventually en ding up on the subway york regional police staff in spector george kydd downplayed the significance of the stranger in the park scenario commenting that there is certainly nothing at this time to suggest there has been any foul play or anything un scrupulous involved in a telephone interview emily denied that her younger sister simply ran away from home pointing out that there were no family arguments prior to her mysterious disappearance she described her relationship with her wayward sibling as close and yet could not explain why when karen realized that she was lost she didnt call home from the phone booth where she was sleeping there was this stranger who was bothering her and i guess she just panicked emily said upon being reunited with his daughter a weary father smiled and said its just a real happy ending anxious family members feared the worst before thompson colleen skleryk paul skleryk and bill karen skleryk was found in north york here her skleryk talk with weekender reporter rob don- worried father harry left and other relatives irene nelly bill lanning teacher reelected jose fernandes district presi dent of the ontario public school teachers federation in york re gion has been reelected to the provincial executive of the opstf mr fernandes has been in the teaching profession for nine years he received his teacher training at the university of toronto he holds a bachelor of arts de gree from the university of toronto a bachelor of education degree from york university and is presently pursuing his masters of education degree on a part- time basis sill wo deliver g we cm deliver your flyers for as litlle as h 35c each call advertising at 2912200 or distribution at 2948244 j 1 1986 flyers delivered j j to july 1 mi economist a sunfnbune 5760900 k metrobnd otstribulinj 147147400 b n v j j 11 fconomlst -f-j- w flyers with weekender j saturday vl super x drugs i1 hohner music education centre h millikcn only fj iron works selected areas j