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GREENSBORO, — North
Carolina —- Cite council
member Keith Holliday.
explaining last month why
the city was forced to hire a
public relations firm to deal
with its current water-shart-
Age criyis:

“PH ber vou Pee been
asked 100 times... why we
just didn’t make our lakes
bigger.”

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An inadvertent ghtch in

the recent carthquake-proof

construction oat) Barnstable
High School in
Massachusetts: “Phe build-

ing is so solidly soundproof

that studenrs could not bear
ordinary fire alarms, and for
the firse month of this
school vear (until the prob-
lem was fixed), the school
board was forced to hire
firefighters on overtime to
stand guard in the building

to alert evervone in case of

fire. The total cost of the
extra manpower?
About $1,060 per day.

Empowered by oa
November referendum in
which 73% cf the country
voted against legalizing
drugs, Swiss prosecutors
announced they would file
challenges to ‘the current
law oa marijuana, which
bans its sale only as a “nar-
cotic.”

Over the last three years,
several hemp shops have
opened, selling dried mari-
juana as an herbal room
treshener (with names like
“Juiev Fruit” and “Lemon
Skunk") — and labelled
“not tor consumption.”

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A recent Wall Street

Firms push WV ferry service

‘eaica Riley
Contriburiag Writer

PRIVATE ferry owner
George Slade wants to
start a passenger ferry
service from West
Vancouver to down-
town.

Slade originally planned to
introduce the service five
years down the road but

portunity knocked with the
plans for the Lions Gate
Bid c upgrade.

¢ $78 million project
would require weekend and
all-night bridge closures for
anywhere from nine months
toa year.

“Those (commuters) that
have to get into town are
going to have to look for
other options,” said Slade.

Slade wants to. provide
those options. If West
Vancouver council approves a
privatized Ferry service during
Lions Gate Bridge renova-
tions, Slade would get cam-
muters from Ambleside to
downtown Vancouver in 15
minutes. A. similar service
could also be sun out of
Dundarave in half hour inter-
vals.

Slade currently operates a
private commuter ferry scr-
vice on his. 66-foot (20 m),
 40-passenger Georgia Master
from Gibsons to downtown

- Vancouver. The per passenger

round-trip cost is $16. The

route takes 55 minutes and
leaves Gibsons at 6:36 a.m.; tt
departs Vancouver at 4: 50
pan. Monday to Friday.

According to Slade, com-
muter services are a comple-
ment to BC Ferries.

But West Vancouver coun-

cil has yet to provide details of

what ferry services the munic-
ipality requires.

Coun. Russ Fraser sug-
gested that West Vancouver
would provide the dock and
the ferry company would
maintain it and set all fares.

West Vancouver council

has received submissions from

three companies wanting to
provide a commuter ferry ser-
vice during bridge renova
tions.

Fraser pointed out that
commuter ferries won't com-
pletely alleviate traffic prob-
lems during bridge renova-
tions but they “will get a few
people out of the mess.”

Starting dates for bridge
renovations are still undeter-
mined.

Work could begin as early
as September 1998 or as late
as February 2000.

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Journal report described
the problems of auto manu-
facturers: foreed to. crash-
test their cars using man-
nequins not only of govern:
ment-dictated «sizes and
weight bur wearing clothing,
presenibed in) minute derail
by various regulations,
Included are require-
ments thar the dummies
wear shoes of a. precise
weight and a black-icather
stvle, that) “Sadults” wear
matched sets of cotton
shirts. and — form-fitting
shorts, that a “child” must
wear “thermal knit, waffle-
weave polyester and cotton
underwear or equivalent,”
with size 7M sacakers, with

“rubber toe caps, uppers of

Dacron and cotton or nylon
and a total mass of 1453
ke.”

Only recently did the
government — drop its
requirement chat all adult
clothes be of the colour “tea
rose™ and that all shoes be
grey suede.

@#es

Joe Firmage, 28, multi-
millionsire founder of the
high-prefile Internet con-
sulting firm  USWeb,

resigned last month out of

fear that the conspany's rep-
uiation was being hurt by
his public views — that
extraterrestrials are respon-
sible for many high-tech
inventions, such as semicon-
ductors and lasers.
According to his autobi-
ography (posted on the
Internet), Firmage was visit-
ed by an extraterrestrial in

Friday, February 19, 1999 — Noxth Shore News — 41

ies

Christ after a) childhood
falling -out with the
Mormon church.

his bedroom in 1997. an
experience that has caused
him to re-accept  fesus

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