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THE following are bricf
summaries of topics on the
agendas of North Shore
municipalities and school
boards:

North Vancouver District
Council: Monday, March 15
at 7 p.m. ~- delegation:
Judith Stone regarding cat
regulation bylaw; secretarial

services for council; financing
of LRT/SkyTrain; develop-
ment permit, Queens Cross
Pub; cat regulation bylaw;
rezoning bylaw for beverage
container return centre; reso-
lution of non-contidence and
recall of government MLA’s.

North Vancouver City
Council: Monday, March 15

THE Pitssburqh Post-Gazette
reported in’ October thar
Lulu. oa Vietnamese pot

bellied pig, saved the life of

her owner, Jo Ann Altsman
of Beaver Falls, Pa, by alert:
ing oa passing driver thar
Aftsman was in trouble.

Altman was) groaning
with a heart attack and said
tater thar Lut first whin
pered ino sympathy, then
squeezed through avery
small doggy door, pushed
open a gate that she had
never opened before, walked
to the road, and according
to a witness, lay down in the
iniddle only when ao car
approached.

The driver stopped and
then heard Altsman’s cries.

PEORIA, Tineis  —
Kenneth Adams, 37, was
arrested and charged with
soliciting an undercover
police officer posing as a
prosdtute,

The officer said Adams
offered her a stolen shower
head and a stolen water
puritier if she would have
sex with him.

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News of the Weird has
reported several times on
the phenomenon of houses
that are inexplicably, almost

at 6 p.m. — budget presenta-
tion; safety audits; rezoning
application tor 405 E. 4th Se.
West Vancouver District
Council: Monday, March 15
at 7:30 p.m. —- OCP and zon-
ing bylaw for Sunset
Highlands area; Marine Drive
jaywalking barrier; blasting
permits for 5449 W. Vista

pathologically, cluttered,
but tragedy struck twice
around Columbus, Ohio,
recently,

A 70-year old man in
the Clintonville neighbour
hood shot himself te death
in February rather than fave
the consequences of a
health deparunent order to
clean up his house and
yard,

Said the man’s wite, “7m
hota good housekeeper, |
grant you that.”

Sin weeks earlier, a 60-
vear-eld man in’ nearby
Whitehall, had died of a
heart problem after his wife
declined to call 911 for him
because she owas afraid
authorities would discover
the couple’s too-cluttered
house and arrest her.

Adding to the list of sto-
ries that) were formerly
weird bur which now occur
with such frequency that
they must be retired from
circulation:

The discovery of gobs of

undelivered mail at the
home of a postal worker
(usually after he got behind
on his deliveries and needed
to hide it), such as the 10-
year-old, unopened mail
found ar retired postal
worker Ralph) Horvath’s
home after he was killed in a
fire in Chicago last month.
And the bank robber who
wants a worry-free getaway

Court and Caulfeild land use
contract area; proposed
GVWD projects, Capilano
reservoir.

West Vancouver School
District 45: The next board
meeting is Tuesday, April 13.
North Vancouver School
District 44: The next meet-
ing is Tuesday, March 23.

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Sunday, March 14. 1999 ~ North Shore News — 14

Saved by the pot bellied pig

(no parking problem, no
driving while jittery, no
forgetting the kevs or to
have the car gassed up, ete.)
and decides to hail a tavicab
(much higher profile than a
getaway ear) outside the
bank, as police say Mary
Barrera did after robbing a
NavonsBank branch in
Kansas City ia November.

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Rev. Henry Lyons, head
of the nation’s largest orga-
nization of black Baptists,
went to trial in) St.
Petersburg, Fla., in January,
accused of defrauding two
firms that thought they
were purchasing an 8.5-mil-
lion-member mailing list
from Lyons’ National
Baptist Convention.

Prosecutors insist the
number was wildly inflated,
and Lyons’ former adminis-
trative assistant testified that
after one such deal was
made, Lyons instructed her
to use a telephone-book
software program to create a
membership list by selecting
names that sounded black.
The assistant said she elimi-
nated last names that began
with “2” and also names
that ended in “ski.”

Among the names that
wound up on the fist was an
imperial wizard of the Ku
Klux Klan.

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In January, Fort) Worth,
Yoxas, murder defendant
Robert William Greer Jr.
agreed to plead guilty to a
1988 killing if the judge
would keep him in the local
jail for mwes more weeks
belore sending bim to the
penitentiary so) that he
could be assured of secing
the Super Bowl on TV.
(Greer thought (TV privi-
Jeges i prison were less cer
tain.) Greer sail much of his
enthusiasm for the game
would be to see his @vourite
tean, the Minnesota
Vikings, win ic all,

Two days later, the
Atlanta Faleons beat the
Vikings to deny them a
Super Bowl appearance, but
Greer’s guilty plea stands.

The New York Times
reported in November on the
recent but growing competi-
tive sport of “nsusical canine

(dancing with
dogs) in which costumed
owners and their matching-
collared) pooches exhibit
choreography to such tunes
as The Yellow Rose of Texas
and Get Happy. (Holding
dogs’ paws, as in at-home
dog-dancing, is forbidden.)
The World Canine Freestyle
Organization has a mailing
list of 8,000 aficionados.

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