Activities... . photography, sewing, drawing and painting Future plans become a renowned artist Lifeboat aids grounded sailor ‘A North Shore Lifeboat Society crew was called out to res- cue a man who had run his sailing boat aground on March 28. _ The Deep Cove lifeboat was called out by the rescue coordination centre at Victoria at 5:59 p.m. to res- " cuca 40-year-old man who had: run his 26-foot sailing vessel aground at low tide near the Rocky Point boat ‘ launch in Port Moody. The Deep Cove lifeboat, . “ander the command of ' Coxswain Jimmy Watt and crewed by Coxswain Dave Gordon and Darren Mollinga left its base at 6:21 p.m. and arrived. on scene at 6:37 p.m. _ Initial attempts by the lifeboat to reach the man by cellular phone were futile. He had turned off his phone to save battery power. Off-duty lifeboat crew- man Dan Greenwood was _ already in the area in his own . vessel. The man was located ’ $00 feer out, rowing his ten- der cowards the launch ramp at dusk. 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Always let someone know where you intend on boating, by filing a detailed sail plan, as outlined in the Canadian Coast Guard Safe Boating Guide, available at marine stores and most Shell gas sta- tions in the Lower Mainland. INICOLE ADRIENNE ® ing mews oF the weird 0 you feel IN February, a Mohave County, Ariz., judge sen- tenced Deborah Lynn Quinn, 39, to a vear in prison for vio- lating probation on a marijua- na-sales charge; Quinn has no arms, no right leg, a partial ieft leg, and is almost toralily dependent on others for care. Also in February, a federal judge in Adlanta sentenced quadriplegic Louis E, Covar ‘Jr., 51, to seven years in prison for violating the probation he had received on a charge of Possessing marijuana. (It is estimated to cost about five times as much to house them as to house able-bodied pris- oners.) gag More Evidence that Cigarettes Are Bad for You: In Cleveland, Charlene Smiley, 44, was charged in February with fatally stabbing a 40-year- old woman in a dispute over smoking in Smiley's boyftiend’s house. And Michael Raines, 20, was charged with fatally shooting a 41-year-old man in Benton, Tenn., in October because the man would not return the cig- arette lighter Raines bad loaned hins. 000 Unclear on the Concept: According to international police statistics, South Africa has the world’s highest inci- dence of reported rape, and in draft legislation circulated in January, the South African Law Commission proposed to criminalize “any act which causes (any) penetration io any extent whatsoever.” According to a researcher, that would cover “simulat(ing) sexual penetration by putting your finger in a guy's nose,” which “some people have told us (is) a serious problem.” Q00 Bright Ideas: Kind-hearted Lee Ming-chi, 31, was sen- tenced to five years in prison in Hong Kong in December for two taxicab robberies totalling about $220 US. Lee had taken ity on one victim and given him back about $12 of the foot, but wary of leaving fin- gerprints, he removed the moncy from the stash with his teeth and dropped it in the cabbie’s hand. However, police matched the DNA from the saliva on the money with DNA from Lee’s blood. Q00 East Penn Township (Pa.} police officer Shawn Phillips was charged in December with conspiracy to commit assault after a Little League pitcher said that Phillips (the well- known “Officer Phil”) had Weekend: Warehouse Consolidaton Everything New Stock Excluded 1451 Lonsdale, N. Van Location Only 980-2288 paid him $2 to hit a batter with a pitch in a game in May 1999. The pitcher complied and was paid, but so far, Phillips has been silent about a motive. Qag In Boston, chemical engi- neer Glenn Elion was sen- tenced to nearly four years in prison in February on a feder- al charge that he defrauded invescors of $3.8 million by claiming to have duplicated the potentially incredibly lucrative genetic code of spi- der silk. According to the prosecutor, Efion needed the money because he himself had just been ripped off for at least $700,000 in a famifiar Nigerian scam in which a man claims he found millions in ULS. currency that has been ruined by indelible ink applied by the Nigerian government, but thar he knows an expen- sive process to remove the ink and will split the proceeds with whoever funds the ciean- ing. 0093 Love Schemes: Police in New Albany, Ind., said that Charles E. Adams, 28, con- vinced = buddy — Clifton “Scooter” Foster in January to stab him, so that Adams could see if his ex-girlftiend would visit him in the hospital. (Adams survived.) And Frederick — Alex Hunchak, 35, pled guilty in Wynyard, Saskatchewan, in January to puncturing the tires of three cars driven by women; he said he wanted to “rescue” them, hoping to find true love. And an Arizona State stu- dent let football piayer J.R. Redmond use her cell phone, then convinced him that that was an NCAA rules violation unless they got married. (They did, but annulment was sched- uled for March.) 000 February Negative-Cash- Flow Robberies: In Albuquerque, an unidentified man asked for change of a $10 bill co get the Keva Juice shop clerk to open the register, then announced a robbery; the clerk locked the register Friday, March 31, 2000 - North Shore News - 11 instead, and the man fled, leaving his $10 behind. The same thing happened at Larry's Quick Stop, Spokane, Wash., but the rab- ber was not as dusmb, asking only for change of a quarter, which he also feft behind when the clerk cold a phone caller he was being robbed. 990 In December, a court in Lusaka, Zambia, approved Dorothy Mapani's strategy to settle the dispute with her hus- band, Effas Ondva, over which of the two is more responsible for the couple’s lack of a sex life. Ondva said he is uninter- ested because he believes Mapani is infertile, and Mapani has accepted Ondya’s challenge to get pregnant, with any man, within 90 days. The $300 bet, said the court’s two justices, seemed a reason- able way to resoive the issue. 200 Great Art!: In December, the = publisher — Benedikt Taschen debuted a 480-page, 70-pound (32 kg) “coffee- table” book by renowned photographer Helmut Newton that is only available with its own coffee table, designed by Philippe Starck, for about $1,700. f Cleansing facial reg $45 i Half leg wax mereg $25 I Bikini wax reg $15 Brow waxing = reg $15 Acrylic Nails reg $65 1 Manicure/Pedicure reg $54 Safer or poorer now? g090 Also, ‘a the Last Month: At a rounae traffic stop, police found 22 pounds of cocaine hidden in a car’s centre con- sole, with a lock controlled by a magnet inside a passenger's bra (Enon, Ohio). A new law requires Mangolia’s many one-name people to adopt surnames to differentiate themselves, but more than half have chosen —_ Borjigon, Genghis Khan's family name. A British Airways plane that made an emergency landing in Manchester because of smoke was carrying four women in the final act of a six-week course to overcome fear of fly- ing. Charges were filed against a Norwalk, Conn., woman for giving her kids, ages five and seven, a hammer and a screw- driver in their school bags for use on bullies. A greup of sex- ually frustrated = women stormed a pojice stazion, demanding either shar the tav- erns their husbands hang out in be shut down or that the cops themselves service the women (Kandara, Kenya). The Swaziland parliament’s speaker of the house resigned under pressure, two months after he was caught stealing manure from ruling King Mswati II. 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