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BEPENDING on how
you look at it, young
Patrick Neal will either
be one or four years old
this coming Tuesday.
- Born on Feb. 29, 1996, at
Lions Gate Hospital, Patrick is
- a Leap Year Day baby.

_ Said = Margaret Neal,
Patrick’s mother, “When you
look at him you think of him as
being four, but you keep won-
dering, maybe he’s just one

because he hasn’t had a real
birthday ye

The aeity has been cele-
brating his birthday on March
1

“When we first found out
we were pregnant and the baby
was duc on Feb. 18, Greg, my
husband, really wanted him on
the 29th, ” said Neal.

Feb. 18 came and went and
the couple eventually decided
to go tor a C-section birth.
Feb, 29 was the first operating
room time available at Lions
Gate Hospital.

The earth’s year is about
365% days tong. That’s how

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

Worth Vancouver District
Council: Monday, Feb. 28 ar
7 pm. — 1999) North
Vancouver Parks and
Reereation photo contest
awards presentation; procla-
mations: Kidney Month
(March), Great Capilano
Duck Race Week (March 6-
12); Bear Aware Program, to
raise public awareness and
promote the use of non-lethal
bear management practises;
Edgemont West neighbour-
hood zoning; harassment pol-
icv; decriminalizing drugs for
Personal use; transition area
development. guidelines for
Site Three in’ Lynn Valley
(block on Fromme, Ross,
Sunnvhurst and E. 29th St.);
federal funding for fuel-cell
industry development; regula-
tion of gas station. service
requirements; council cham-
ber, upgrading of microphone
and electronic speaking sys-
tem.

North Vancouver City
Council: Monday, February
28 at 6 p.m. — proclama-
tions: Gymnastics Awareness
Week (March 4-11), National
Engineering Week (March 4-
12), Great Capilano River
Duck Race Week (March 6-
12), Kidney Foundation
Month (March); North Shore
Lions youth exchange pro-
gram; renaming of Lower
Lonsdale public process;

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long it takes the Earth to make
one cycle around the sun.
Undl Emperor Julius Caesar
proclaimed every fourth year a
Leap Year, if you lived long,
you could experience your
birthday in different seasons.
To keep the calendar in step
with the sun, Caesar pro-
claimed the last day of

moveable wall at the Roval
Canadian Legion, 123) W.
15th St.; north-facing wall at
Centennial Theatre; Marine
Drive Planning Study, pro-
posed process; 1998 local
Improvement initiatives, con-
struction bylaws; Sunrise Park
soceer field, traffic impact
study; Mosquito Creek, 17th
St. trailhead sand © trail
enhancements open house;
requests for funding in school
playgrounds, specific joiat-use
agreements, OCD, consolida-
uon of issues and amending
process;
Canadian Municipalities,
community leaders partner-
ship program; finance com-
mittee meeting at 7 pam.; con-
flict. of interest; dayeare in
city-owned house; artificial
turf field.

West Vancouver District
Council: Monday, February
28 at 7:30 p.m. — public
hearing to provide for the use
and regulation of veterinary
medical clinics and pet care
establishments; zoning bylaw
to rezone lands in the Cypress
Bowl Road/Rodgers Creck
area to provide for the devel-
opment of a combined ele-
mentary/secondary school,
issuance of development per-
mit application for Muigrave
school; request for bylaw
exemptions re Iranian New
Year, roof replacement, interi-
or improvement and land-
scaping for Music Box (Argyle
House); floral clock, recom-
mendation for district millen-
nium project; for information,
lights on lane behind 1525

irthday

February as Leap Year Day. Ac
that time Feb. 30 was the last
day of the year.

By 4 AD, Emperor Caesar
Augustus named the month of
August after himself, took the
last day of February and added
it to August so that it could
have 31 days like Julius’

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