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BY DENISE LAVOIE THE ASSOCIATED DRESS PROVIDENCE, R.l. — Members of the rock group Great White have been subpoenaed by prose cutors and said Tuesday they will appear before a grand jury inves tigating whether criminal charges should be filed in the nightclub in ferno that killed 97 people. The grand jury is expected to convene Wednesday, law enforce ment officials said on condition of anonymity. Band publicist Byron Hontas said the musicians are cooperat ing with authorities and expect to testify early next week. Investigators are trying to de termine who is to blame for the fire that was apparently sparked by the band’s pyrotechnics last Thursday. Flames swept through the West Warwick club, the Station, in a matter of minutes. The band has said it received approval to use the special effects, but the club’s owners have denied giving permission. It could not be immediately de termined whether the club’s own ers, brothers Jeffrey and Michael Derderian, have received subpoe nas. Their attorney, Kathleen Hagerty, did not return calls Tuesday, and the attorney gener al’s office declined comment. Police searched the Narragansett home of Michael Derderian on Sunday, according Grant CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 find those factors so that in future studies we can modify them and learn if that does in fact result in increase in physical activity,” Pate said. He said if that works out, they hope to make policy recommen dations for schools and the agen cies that operate them. Bill Brown, associate professor of educational psychology and a part of the team working with Pate, said the monitoring of the children will take place on two dif ferent levels: direct observation by trained individuals and motion sensors the children will wear throughout the day. Brown said the study would give researchers a much better de scription of what children’s activ ity levels are in the schools, where children find themselves for a long part of the day. lviosi mus ai me prescnooi age are in some form of group care by age 4,” he said. “And the circum stances they find themselves in, as far as their cognitive, physical and social development, can be very, very important.” Brown said it doesn’t make sense to wait until children are 14 and having weight problems if there are things that can be done at the policy level and at a teach er implementation level. “I think most people would agree that we really do need to take a preventive and early inter vention approach to more active and healthy lifestyles for kids,” he said. “It’s a national problem, obe sity — state and national prob lem.” Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudeskfufhotmail.com I ---- to a law enforcement source. Attorney General Patrick Lynch has said he does not believe the Derderians have cooperated with investigators, but spokesman Mike Healey said Tuesday: “We’re not pitting the band against the Derderians.” Meanwhile, Gov. Don Carcieri tough process and the families and the impacts of this thing are rip pling throughout the state,” Carcieri said. The fire also injured nearly 190 people; about 60 remain hospital ized, including 40 in critical con dition. Legal experts and fire investi PHOTO COURTESY OF KRT CAMPUS Kristen LaPlante, left, and Michael LaPlante leave the scene of the Station nightclub fire in West Warwick, R.l. said 93 of the 97 bodies have been identified. The governor also said there was a discrepancy between the number of people reported missing and those confirmed dead, and search crews using dogs were expected to go over the charred ruins again to look for bodies. “This is a tough, very, very gators said the Derderians or members of the band Great White — or both — could be indicted on such charges as criminally negli gent homicide, manslaughter, even murder. “It is pretty obvious that there was some joint responsibility. Maybe the issue is not which one to charge, but what to charge both with,” Donald Bliss, president of the National Association of State Fire Marshals and the New Hampshire fire marshal, said. Edward Ryan Jr., an attorney who represented a homeless man charged with manslaughter in a 1999 fire that killed six Massachusetts firefighters, com pared the Rhode Island case to Boston’s Cocoanut Grove night club fire that killed 492 people in 1942. In that fire, the nightclub owner was charged with negligent manslaughter for having an over crowded club with locked exit doors, an act that showed he dis regarded known risks to life, Ryan said. He said the bar boy suspected of starting the fire when he lit a match was not charged because the deaths were caused by an un safe building. Ryan said the grand jury could find the club ownerg and the band committed “affirmative acts” that caused the deaths — the band by using pyrotechnics without a per mit, and the Derderians by failing to make sure no fire hazards were present. He cited reports that py rotechnics had been used in the club by other bands. “If they had 70 shows in the last three years and 35 of those in volved pyrotechnics of some sort, that leads to a fair inference that they knew of or should have known what was going on in then club, ” Ryan said. 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