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municipal affairs

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

North Vancouver District
Council: Monday, March 13
at 7 pan. — recommenda-
dons on decriminalizing pos-
session of illegal drugs; detox
and rehabilitation programs;
and conveying these issues to
the Attorney General; zoning
bylaws for single- -family
dwellings exceeding building
requirements; cemetery on
Lillooet Rd.

North Vancouver City
Council: Monday, March 13
at 6 p.m. — proposed rezon-
ing of North Vancouver
Cemetery; recommendations
on applications for disaster
response funding; delegation
from the North Shore
Walk/Run Committee;
“introduction on the Sunrise
Park expansion, to be consid-
ered and referred to a public
hearing; sprinklering require-
ments.

West Vancouver District
Council: Monday, March 13
at 7:30 p.m. — iwaftic bylaw
to allow a vendor in a public
place, re 9-1-1 Relay;
overview of BC Ferries pro-
posals, zoning adoption of
tune Zoning and business
licence bylaw for the use and
regulation of veterinary med-
ical clinics; select committee
review of Horseshoe Bay
local traffic issues; delega-
tions from B.C. Trucking
Association and Multiple
Sclerosis Society of Canada;
overview of B.C. Ferries pro-

posals; request for noise con-
trol bylaw exemptions fer
filmirg berween Taylor Way
and Cautfald Rd. exits and
filming at Sunset Marina.

West Vancouver School
District 45: Tuesday, March
14 at 7: p.m. presentations
on late French immersion
delegation, the School Play
Field Program, including the
lighting of Caulfeild and
West Bay fields; reports from
committees for human
resources, finance and facili-
ties, education programs and
services; trustee reports from
the North Shore Regional
Health Board, West
Vancouver Municipal

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New York City firefighter
Albert Hohmann was arrested
in February after being identi-
fied by police as the man who,
naked, sneaked into a restau:
rant at night and snacked on
expensive food and wine.
Hohmann’s lawyer denied the
charge despite the fact that
the restaurant’s surveillance
camera was cunning and that
the intruder sported an casily
identifiable tattoo of “Mr.
Peanut” on his derriere.

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The Continuing Crisis:
Trauma therapist Karen
Frogley = complained in
January to Reverse Bungy
New Zealand about the com-
pany’s installation of a 130-
foor-high tower with a
bungee-attached capsule in
downtown Wellington, out-
side Frogley’s office building.
Frogley says the jumpers’
blood-curdling screams make
her rape and car-crash patients
anxious during their sessions.

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Hard to Get Into Prison
These Days: Matthew Harley,
27, sentenced to prison on
weapons charges in 1995, sur-
rendered at a courthouse in
Portsmouth, Va., but was sent
home, where he continued
with his life until September
1999, when authorities finally
came for him.

And Doris Preston, 74,
sentenced to five years’ mini-
mum for arson in 1991, went
home to Columbus, Ohio, on
baii but was not called back
until September 1999.

And in August, parole-vio-
lating rapist Gerald Bennett,

Planning
West

Parks and
Advisory

Advisory
Commission,
Vancouver
Recreation
Commission.

North Vancouver School
District 44: Education and
Programs meeting Tuesday,
March 14 at 7:30 p.m. at
LMCC. The next regular
board meeting is Tuesday,
March 28 at 7:30 p.m..
Information and proposais
on occupational health and
safety programs and prace-
dures; preparation of esti-
mates for the 2000/01 bud-
get; meeting — sumarary;
future agenda items; update
on current capital projects.

toll on your vehicle, so put
with, tad special ¢ offers.

30, tried politely to surrender
at the police station in
Glenolden, Pa., but was
turned away because of a
records glitch and remained
tree for six more days, during
which time, according to
police, he killed one woman
and raped another before
being caught.

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Peoole Who Are Not Like
You and Me: [n January,
Bobby G. Olson, 34, pled
guilty to vehicular homicide
for an incident in rural
Breckenridge, Minn., in
1998. Olson and another man
were arguing in a bar over
who had the more powerful
pickup truck, and the mo left
to settle things by chaining
their trucks togethez and hav.
ing a tug of war. Olson won
by default when the other
man’s truck slid into a ditch,
rolled, and, when the man
was ¢jected, came down on
top of him.

Joseph Motyka, 32, was
arrested on Jan. I in Chicago
and charged with = child
endangerment because he,
not content with a firecracker
celebration of the New Year,
had brought home a quarter-
stick of dynamite. Motyka’s
three-year-old daughter dis-
covered it and put it into a
candle, and the resultant
explosion took off her right
hand and caused hearing and
vision loss.

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Least Competent
Criminals: Miguel Avalos-
Rivera, 28, was arrested in
Fairfax, Va., in. November

as he tried to steal the stereo,
and he had broken three of
his fingers.

after being found screaming
in pain in a car; his hand had
gotten stuck in the dashboard

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