Home security loans
offered to seniors

Danica Riley
Contributing Writers
CANADA Mortgage

- and Housing
Corporation (CHMC)
is offering low income
seniors and people with
disabilities loans to
improve home security.

The Federal government’s
housing agency will provide
some seniors with a forgivable
loan of up i $2,500 to make
their homes sater.

Some of the improvements
that can be made in une Home
Adaptations for _ Seniors
Independence (HASI) pro-
gram include:

B replacing locks to improve
function or increase security;
§B installing a peephole or view
panel in a door;

Affordably Priced from $42-$86 BR

rohit nif

@ installing security bars on
windows;

@ increasing lighting along
entrance walkways and steps.

To qualify for assistance you
must be 65 or over, have some
difficulty with daily living activ-
ities, have a total houschold
income below the income limic
for your area (figures available
from CHMC) and ensure the
adaptations will be made to a
permanent residence.

The loans do not have to be
repaid provided the homeown-
er agrees to occupy the
dwelling for the duration of the
loan forgiveness period of six
months. The forgiveness peri-
od may be redu.sd in extenu-
ating circumstances.

The deadline for applica-
tions is March 31, 1999. For
more information about the
HASI program call CHMC ar
737-4077,

Sizes Available

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English

is out,

New Age is in

UNIVERSIVY of Nevada,
Las Vegas -—— School presi-
dent Carol Harter has
moved the oftices of most of
the schouls English compo-
sition teachers out of the
campun’s historic Foussels
House and into a group of
double-wide trailers in order
to make room for a new
Consciousness Studies
Program.

The new course investi-
gates near-death experiences
and other new-age topics,
and was recently created
wita a large donation trom a
prominent real estate devel-
oper.

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Crown Point, Indiana —
William Fagyas, 82, was
charged with stabbing his
wife, Eleanor, 84, in) the
chest because, according, to
police, she “was not in the
Christmas spirit.”

Continuing an occasional
reader-advisory series of
recent stories that were
reported clsewhere as real
news but which were proba-
bly just made up:

A recent New York Times
report on the difficult job of
retitling American movies
for the Asian market came
with a list of wacky exam-
ples. (One of the tamer
ones: “Leaving Las Vegas”
became, in Chinese in Hong
Kong, “I’m Drunk and
You're a Prostitute.”)

However, as was revealed
in December by The
Washington Post, the list of
examples was composed by
an Internet humour Web
site and had been mistakenly
commingled with serious
material on the topic and
never investigated by
America’s “newspaper of
record.”

On Super Bowl Sunday,
the Se. Petersburg Times pro-
tiled Florida resident Jottre
Leggett, 80, as he prepared
for the Publishers Clearing
House prize patrol that
would later that day, he was
certain, be arriving at his
house with $31 million.

He proudly displayed the
roomtuls of magazines he

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had bought over the last wo
vears ($35,060 worth,
theugh he complained to
the reporter about bis lack
of tood and hear and: his
broken-down cary and
pointed to the latest: PCH
nuilings, which Legyett savs
“(ready tike Pm gonna win.

Thev’ve sent me plenty of

(literature) that save Twill
(win).
He dida’t.

Huntington, Indiana —
Edward 1. Bodkin, 56, was
arrested os recently and
charged with performing
surgery without a licence.

Police said = Bodkin
removed the testicles of at
least. tive consenting men
and was ready to perform
again when a patient: got
cold feet and handed over to
police a videotape Bodkin

had loaned him, of some of

the surgeries. Allegedly,
some of the testicles were in
jars in Bodkin’s apartment.
As to the _ patients’
motives, prosecutor John
Branham said, “I can’t sit
here as a reasonable human
being and give you an intel-
ligent answer to that.”

Waynesboro, Virginia —
A woman has filed a
$350,000 lawsuit against
physician Dale A.
Stinespring for allegedly
tricking her into posing top-
less for photographs under
the guise of producing evi-
dence in her car-crash law-

B Plastic surgery has

MN past 30 years. Both
B cosmetic

% ments that “many of

Dr. T. J. Robinson

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NOTICE OF REMOVAL
CLEMENT C. WONG

A Disciplinary Committee of the Architectural Institute of British

Columbia (AIBC) Council has found Clement Wong, MAIBC guilty

of unprofessional conduct. on a single family custom residence

project in West Vancouver. BC. On the project. Clement Wong.

MAIBC was its architect. The charges dealt essentially with the

member's filere to:

1. act with reasonable care und competence, in thar the
architectural drawings provided to his client, and submitted
for Building Permit application were incompiere.
provide architectural services. in return for fees. in
substantial accord with the AIBC Tariff of Fees for
Architectural Services: and

3. seal and sigh the drawings.

Clement Wong. MAIBC is ordered removed from the AIBC register

effective March 15, [999 and to pay one-third of AIBC costs, Mr.

Wong's name will be restored to the AIBC register no earlier than

March 15, 2000 providing he satisfactorily completes the AIBC’s

course in Professional Ethics, an oral examination focussing on the

issues raised by the charges in this matter. twelve months of full-time
employment with a holder of a current AIBC Certificate of Practice
and payment of one-third of his financial obligavions relative to the
costs.

The firm Clement Wong Architect Inc. will cease to exist as of

March 15, £999.

The foregoing reflects the Disciplinary Committee's judgement

pertaining to protecting the public trust.

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allow the client to actually see how the procedure
may change their own appearance. He will encour-
age a client to speak with other previous clients to
help ease
coacers. “it's very important that my patents fully
understand the risks and benefits of any proce-
dure.”

Dr. Robinson performs a broad range of cosmetic
and reconstructive surgery. Surgeries include fore-
head lift, eyelid reduction, face lift, rhinoplasty, chin
augmentation, breast augmentation, breast reduc-
i. 3, breast uplift, abdominoplasty, and liposuction.
He also does a wide range of laser treatments such

changed a lot in the

and
reconstructive
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efited from the
development of new
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these new products
and — equipment

allow doctors to perform less invasive surgery with
increased precision and in seme cases, decreased
recovery times.”

Dr. Robinson has been a plastic surgeon for 28
years. He lives on the north shore and opened his
Bundarave office 14 years ago.

Whatever procedure a client is seeking, Dr.
Robinson says that the first consultation is one of
the most important steps in the whole process.
Communication and a genuine understanding of the
patientis needs are established at this point.

To increase the effectiveness of the initial visit, Dr.
Robinson uses before and after pictures of previ-
ous clients. He uses computerized video imaging to

as silk touch laser for wrinkles and acne scars;
laser hair removal; laser removal of tattoos and
brown pigmented lesions; and laser treatment of
spider veins and red lesions.

Non-surgical procedures include injection of colla-
gen and hyaluroric acid for wrinkles and lip
enhancement, as well as a new permanent implant
material called Artecoll which can also be injected.
If you are considering piastic surgery call Dr.
Robinson at 921-6988 to arrange for a private con-
sultation. Plastic surgery is a major decision and it
is extremely important that you, as a client, are
completely comfortable with the surgeon you
choose.

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