“connection with drinking and NEWS photo Mike Waketield SUSAN Falls is a West Vancouver resident and a fuli-ime volun- teer. She donates time to the SPCA Thrift Store and to Holy Trinity Church. She also collects refund- able containers for ani- mal welfare groups. : Do you. know a Silent Hero? os Send your nominations to Terry Peters, North Shore News, -1133-Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver, B.C., V7M 2H4; or by . _s Include your name and phone number; the name and phone ~ qumber of your nominee; and your reason for nominating the : Silent Hero. dele ac EEReY “THE following people appeared ‘in North Vancouver court in Dress them up & then: ‘you can take S them anywhere! ver’s licence suspended for 12 months after he pleaded guilty to impaired driving. os @ Patrick james Sproule, 57, of no fixed address, was jailed 14 days and had his dri- ver’s licence suspended for 24 months ° after he pleaded guilty to impaired driving. Cat's licence a foy story LISA Alger of Roy, Wash., had to take her chim all the way to state judge Paul ‘Treyz in June, bat she finally got a dismissal of one of the municipal citations against her for housing an unli- censed cat named Patches. Reason: Patches is 4 stuffed animal. The local Humane Society monitors for violations of licensing law by knocking on doors and asking kids the names of their pets, so it can check licence lists. When Alger’s seven-year-old son mentioned the highly regarded Patches, and the Humane Society found no licence for it, it wrote Alger up without investigating. 9099 No Substitute for a Loyal Dog: Sevier County (Tenn.) sher- iff's dog Kysor was praised in a July Knoxville, News-Sentinel report as so y faithful that he withstood a stab wound to the head from a fleeing suspect, hard enough that the blade broke off, in order to maintain his grip. However, after the man plunged the knife in, he tied to sic his own dog on the weakened Kysor, but, according to a deputy, “He whistled for him, but his dog would: n't come.” 9239 Humans Disrespecting ‘Trains: A young man suffered a bro- ken arm when he was walking so close to railroad tracks that a passing, train violently knocked his surfboard out of his hands (San Clemente, Calif., June). And a 25-year-old woman lost the tees on her right foot when she crawled under a slow-moving train as a shortcut to the correct plattorm (Mount Prospect, IIL, July). And an inebriated man’s life was saved by his wite, who pulled him just in time from the path of a speeding train after he had lingered on the tracks to make an obscene gesture at the con- ductor (Trevor, Wis., June). oe Also, in the Last Month: ‘The Supreme Court of New Hampshire ruled that a candidate for office had the right to parade on the street dressed as a penis, because he was com- menting on the political system, Water and health officials were mystified at the continued appearance of halfinch- slong rect womms in the tap of a Deltona, Fla., woman but after tests, declared the water safe. Officials in Cairo, Egypt, began imple- menting a 20-year program to relocate 21 cemeteries (with 109,000 graves) to the suburbs. The jail sentence was recommended served by electronic monitoring. eee Kyzysztof Slysz, 39, of Surrey, was fined $600 and had his driver’s licence sus- pended 12 months after he pleaded guilty to impaired driving. For more Inform contact : Sabine Roadiury ~ or visit our website: uww.thesummerhill.com_: CF: . . 135 West 15th St. North Vancouv B.C. Canada, V7M IR9 >: SB MNteniaL Teluphone (604) 980-6525 Facsimile (604) 623-3414 Email Jim Poyner Ken Baxter Pat Poyner PEASGRAL INI INJ@RY Poyner Baxter Poyner ar Legal Team www. vsoynerbaxter com 988-632 1 408 - 145 Chadwick Count, North Vancouver (Lonsdale Quay Plaza) CORDLESS: HONEYCOMB SHADES + Introdaciog the Early Retirement - - Options Handbook. This new brochure. ~. -is another publication in. * ScotiaMcLeod's Wealth Planning Serics, : "It provides strategies and key infor- taation that individuals must consider. — when faced with the prespect of early -» ietirement. Call Richard today to! receive your complimentary brochure, _ ScotialVicLeod | Building Relationships for Life