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until further notice,” according

-to.a News reader who fre-

* quented the driving range.

. ; The facility was a joint ven-
tureof:the Squamish. Nation
and David Ho, a Vancouver
businessman who. owns. the

~ University Golf Club.

i. So company managed
the Squamish Natiun property.
and employed 12 full time and

_ Part-time emaployess “Harold

_afe invited to attend

Calla said. It was Ho who
decided to close the range, he
said.

“It was not an economicall
viable. operation,” Calla sai
“{t's a sad fact, just like
Eaton’s, some ‘things don’t

work. This wasn’t working.”

Ho could not be reached
for comment._ Calla said: the
future of the site is being pon-
dered. A development proposal
could be’ submitted to
Squamish Nation band council
in the first. quarter of 2000, he
said. In the meantime, Calla
said customers who pre-paid
tor services at the driving range
ne site
Wednesday from 9 am. to 5

: p.m. to apply for refunds.
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IN October, police in the state
of Bihar, India, accused a man
of the ritual sacrifice of his two
daughters, aged 18 and 13,

dunng the Hindu festival of

Dassera.

In June, a London
Telegraph =o report — from
Faridabad, India, cited 1998
police reports of the sacrifices
of nine children under age 10
to the bloodthirsey Hindu
goddess Kali, mostly by so-

called ‘Tanurc priests (some of

whom are simply con artists) in
slums and poor villages in east-
ern India. The priests prescribe
the child offerings to cure a
variety of their parents* misfor-
tunes.

Three = Satanists were
charged in Septemt in
Istanbul, Turkey, with killing a
21-year-old woman in a sacri-
fice to the devil to stop the
county's recent earthquakes.

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According to a September
eyewitness report in the
Sunday Oklahoman _newspa-
per, cowboy Par Ratliff, age 78,
won $1,700 from three marks
in Ardmore, Okia., by tearing a
quarter in half. To erase skepti-
cism, Ratliff also took two
quarters from the reporter and
tore those in half, cach in less
than 30 seconds. Among his
previous work, Ratliff turored
actor Robert Duvall in tough-
ness as Duvall prepared for his
tole in Lonesome Dove.

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After an unsuccessful appeal
tw the Nebraska legislature,
South Dakota’s Cglala Sioux
Tribal Court said in August it
would have to find other ways
to stop beer sales in the nearby
border town of Whiteclay,
Neb. (po lation 22). Stores
in Whiteclay, far away from any
populated” ‘area except the
Oglala reservauon, sell four
million cans of beer a year (an
average of 1,800 six-packs a

day).
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Town officials in Oakvillc,
Ontario, banned Tamara
Sanowar-Makhan’s Ult:a-Maxi
Prisst sculpture from __ its
September Visual Raaga exhib-
it. The piece is a iife-size
Catholic -vestment composed
of more than 200 feminine
maxi-pads, ta symbolize, said
Sanowar-Makhan, “the
oppressive control by orga-
nized religion over the free-

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City officials in Recife,
Brazil, voied in August to
ieject’ Francisco Brennand’s
proposed 100-foot-high,
glowing sculpture intended as
a beacon to outer space.
Officials and many townspeo-
ple said the sculpture too close-
ly resembled a phallus. When
they attempted ta get
Brennand to modify the statue
to more resemble a lighthouse,
Brennand quit in disgust and
smashed another structure on
his way out the door.
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In July while Windsor,
Ontario, school breakfast-pro-
gram staff members looked on
in anger, artist Les Levine and
volunteers emptied more than
250 boxes of Corn Flakes in a
waterfront park to commemp-
rate a piece he had done in
1969 (to considerably more
success) to support the then-
fledgling ecology movement.
Seagulls devoured the flakes in
less than a minute, provoking a
chagrined schuol official to
note that he could have fed
everyone at his school for a
year with that cereal.
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A Taiwan distributing com-
pany began an advertising
campaign recently for German-
made space heaters, using a

Sunday, December 26, 1999 — North Shore News - 11

Satanists strike, Kill

smiling Adolf Hider character
to Declare War on the Cold
Front; a company represenia-
tive said it was important to
show the product as bang
German-made and that he did
n't think Taiwanese were very
sensitive about Hider (but the
ads were pulled in November).
The Vatican announced in
December that it was appalled
at the Beretta company’s ad
campaign for a new series of
$7,000 Jubilee model guns,
which is also the name of the
Roman Catholic millennium

celebration: the ads’ tagline | is

“The pope would tike them.”
oes

Recurring Themes, Man
versus Train: In October in
Burlingame, Calif., an 18-year-
old woman became the latest
fatality among people who
walk along railroad tracks while
listening to music on head-
phones and don’t hear a train
coming.

Three days later in
Kanagawa, Japan, a 61-year-
old man was hospitalized in

serious condition, the latest
injury to someone standing on
a passenger platform and lean-
ing over the track (in this case,
apparendy (to spit) just as a
train was rumbling by.

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People Who Haven’t Quite
Figured Everything Out:
Alexander Nemeth was arrest-
ed in Frankfurt, Germany, in
September and charged with
attempting to extort $14 mil-
lion from the Nestle food com-
pany by poisoning its products
on supermarket: shelves; the
ransom money was to be
placed in pouches around the
necks of his homing pigeons,
but police merely put radio
transmitters into the pouches
before sending the pigeons on
their way.

Donald Mallison, 20, and
Robert Mims, 18, were arrest-
ed in Irving, Texas, in
November and charged with
robbing a Blockbuster Video;
they were caugnt outside their

etaway car, having accidental-
y focked the keys inside.

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