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City alone
funds arts
festival

THE North Shore
Millennium Arts
Festival slated to cele-
brate the year 2000 will

have only one munici-
pality participating in it.

North Vancouver District
has withdrawn its funding
from the Yester & Future
Society, an organization over-
seeing the arts festival. The dis-
trict is demanding repayment
of $10,209 in advance monies
given for start-up costs and
now North Vancouver City
will be going it alone with its
Explosion of the Arts Festival.

In celebration of the
upcoming, millennium North
Vancouver City passed several
resolutions earlier this month
towards planning for year
2000 festivines.

City council plans to build
a pedestrian plaza on West Ist
Street in conjunction vith the
cultural diversity and arts festi-
vals.

As part of the city’s
Millennium: Capital Project,
the plaza will house a portable
photographic disphy of the
city’s history organized in con-
junction with the North
Vancouver Muscum = and
Archives Commission.

A companion booklet will
also be produced with pho-
tographs and text about the
city.

Council has allocated
$40,000 towards the project
and completion is conditional
on a matching grant from the
provincial and iederal govern-
ments.

— Brady Fotheringham

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Engineers at Imperial
College in: London, England,
recently produced a) blood
extrering rebot thar they
Kelieve is more accurate than
humans at finding a vein and
properly inserting 2 needle,
accerding to an) April) New
Setenetst store. Human blood:
drawers often act as if all arms
and veins are the same, but
Imperial’s robots examine the
skin, Ussue and vein size with
highly sensitive tusteuments.
On the other hand, at Trinity
University in Hartford, Conn ,
an April exhibition of stand-
alone robots was for the most
part impressive, according toa
Knight-Ridder News Service
story, but included a number
of robor firefighters that
walked directly into the
flames.

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In February, a group of
entists and lawyers in New
Zedand proposed legislation
to give near-“haman” rights

te vordias, chimpanzees and
onangaitains because they are so
genetically clave te) humans,
Only the most mifd, benign
expenments could be con
ducted on them. Opponents
feared that such nehts might
eventually extend to other ani
mals and even to ordinary lab
ras, Which would significantly
frustrate medical research.

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In February, legislatures in
Mame and) Anszona voted
down proposals to prohibit
discrimination against motor
cvelists, but a) similar effort
continues in’ Pennsylvania.
(East vear, the Minnesota ley
islature passed an obscure pro
vision ina finance bil barring
anti biker discrimination by
restaurants and bars.) Anda
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California: pending trom last
year, the Open Waves Act,
would guarantee drat focal
surters had no greater right to
a wave than visting surfers,
(At times in California, surters
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In March, an) Ontario
provincial court upheld) the
nght of convicted public mas-
turbator Marvin Mezquita-
Duenas not to have to stand in
front of city hall holding a sign
thar revealed his crime. ‘The

trial judge had sentenced him
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five days of openly admitting
his perversion,

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metal as he was lowering him-
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