42 - Friday, May 16, 1997 — North Shore News ry LOUISVILLE, Kentucky — Four men robbed the National City Bank but were halted dur- ing their getaway by Danny Johnson ar a store next door and thus dropped the moncy and fled. Johnson, despite the temp- tation to skim at least a litte off the top to take care of his Christmas. bills, stood guard over all the loot until police arrived. Nacional City Bank people called Johnson three days later 0 inform him thar his joan application for $500, submit- ted before the bank robbery, was denied. A trial began in March in the lawsuit of Linda Jean Schneider, 49, against nwo physicians and the John Muir Medical Hospital near San Francisen, for their negligence wi actually saving her life. Schneider has a slowly terminal, degenerative neuraiogical dis- order (Melas syudrene) that causes seizures, - 4 sae had wanted to die, bur «*: doctors Kept feeding and cariny for her. She’s now expecte:t to live another 15 years, though with a poor quality of life. The owners of the Garden Juice Bar in San Francisco told a state labor official that on taost days for the past year they had provided neighborhood hanger-on (and perhaps home- less) Eugenia McCoy free meals, However, in January Mctey filed a state labor claim dat sx had not been paid for Add a second Phone for just $9.95imonth. all the on-premises “work” she had been doing, such as, for the laste “40° minutes” of each “shift,” standing outside to make sure no one broke the restaurant’s windows. Despite the ow vehe- ment denials that McCuy ever worked for them, the labor official set the matter for a for- mal hearing (largely because she doubted that restaurant owners could be so generous). . Fiawaii’s Big Island closed out its 1996 highway death roll at 35 (compzred to 23 in 1995) on Dec. 26 with the one-vehicle crash in Hamakua of motorcyclist Hy Hoe Silva, 41. The New York Times, describing several civil sub-wars now raging in Zaire as President Mobutu’s 30-year reign ends, reported on the “quixotic on-and-off conflict waged by Mai-Mai guerrillas, who hide in the jungle and smoke large quantities of mari- KIDS FOLLOW THE WATER SAFETY RULES DO YOU? } The Canadian Red Cross Society “The 1996 Elite Canada Gymnastics Competition” program won the Canadian Cable Television Association’s National Galaxi Award for Programming Excellence ior the Sports Category. juana.” People fear the Mai-Mai because it is believed that bul- lets turn to water before hitting them, and stories circulate about how the mere threar of the Mai-Mais” appearance caus- es forces to retreat and surren- der. However, the Times report- ed, “When the Mai-Mai were filled in (a recent battle), it was speculated that they might recently have had sex, which, some Zairians say, destroys the Mai-Mai’s protection from bul- lets for a day or nvo.” Sony Pictures Studios sought a court order last month to keep Raymond R. Taylor off the set of the TV shuw “Wheel of Fornune.” He had been a contestant in 1993, but keeps coming to the tapings, sneaking onto the st, and annoying che audi and stat (and four times has mon- aged to get his face shown on the air). We're c The = Associated — Press reports that the United Arab Emirates’ National Avian Research Center, funded at a generous level by ruler Sheik Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, has hired scientists from around the world to use state- of-the-art tracking to save the endangered houbara bustard bird. However, the only reason tor the sheik’s concern appears to be to assure that they are plentiful enough for rich Arab hunters. «ee The Tokyo-based theatrical company OM2, in a recent per- formance at the Kitchen in New York City, set up 11 mobile pens inside which the audience sar while the 20 cast members stared at them and moved the cages from place to place goals, said the New anes, were “blurring the re benveen artist and audi- vace, and the ever-popular audience discomfort.” sed ior Victoria Da Sun. May 18 and Mon. May 19 Have a safe Holiday Weekend Worth Vancouver City Library. 121 West 14th St., North Van. Rogers Communi North Shore Studio Wins CCTA National Community Programming Award The award was presented to Furio Sorrentino, Producer and Director, at + Used Phones available - Clédring Out Stock *: Very Reasonable Prices. the CCTA Galaxi Awards Gala in ene a 0 ey ee Toronto, Ontario on May 13th. 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