”. NEWS photo Julle Iverson * NORTH Vancouver resident Ken Rees is « busy volunteer. He spends much of his time serving food, cleaning tables . and tending bar at Evergreen House. With the B.C. Kite Association, he gives work- shops to children and he also . volunteers for the poppy drive In West Vancouver and ithe North Van Seniors’ Centre. Do you know a Silent Hero? Send your nominations to Terry Peters, North Shore News, 1139 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver, B. C., V7M 2H4; or by é-mail to . .. Include your name and phone aumber; the name and phone , number of your nominee; and your reason for nominating the Silent Hero.) MEMBERS of the. oo North’ Shore Amateur” fg course in lateur radio gare i . to qualification’ for the . Industry Canada’ basic $90 "per... person includes the course text from ’ Radio Amateurs of Canada. ‘For those: interested, an “orientation meeting and reg- - istration will be held:at 7:30 p-m.. on. Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2001, in ‘the meeting. room: North © & «West: ‘Emergency ; of: the’ Vancouver * which’ RETIREE Neal Terry, 78, protiled in an October Dallas Morning News story about his “hobby”: “I've dedicated my lite to irritating people. It’s a special gitt that I have. I tell iny grandsons, *You‘re not going to like everybody you run across, so go ahead and irritate them’.” (Terry insisted that no one has ever gotten really angry at him, even the times he sang the Partridge Family song, “[ Think [ Love You,” over and over at. work.) 909 Law of the Jungle: Troy Carlisle, 28, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in October after. being convicted | in Brandon, Miss., of forcibly taking the lifejacket of a seven- year-old girl and leaving her to drown in a Arkabutla Lake; Carlisle told police, “I was thinking 1 was gonna die or she was gonna die.” And in July, Alvin Latham was charged with second- degree murder after he sur- vived the sinking of a shrimp boat in a storm off of the Louisiana: coast; police said Latham stabbed the captain to get the ship's only life vest. : 0909 The Netherlands legalized prostitution. in October (before that, it was merely tol- erated), but also began regu- lating it as any other business. 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