26 — Sunday, March 9, 1997 —

North Shore News

The Host Prograns i is ‘ooking for volunteers tu spend time once
a week assisting, newcomers learn more about Canadian life
and helping thern practice their English skills. Volunteers can
learn ahout another culture and language and make new
friends. There is no financial obligation tw join this program.

. For more informatien, cull Golnaz
of the North Shore Multicultural Society

at 988-293 1.
This ;-rogram is fonded by Citizenship
‘cel Imacigration Canada.

G- on that next
quick trip fo the
corner store.
Canadians could
reduce pollution from
exhaust by 30 ionnes
if they cut short car
trips for six months.

7 PATHFINDER XE

Dr. Quincy, he ain’t

NEWS OF THE
WEIRD

THE wife of Dr. Michael
Baden, the head of the New
York State Police’s forensics
unit, filed papers in her
divorce action against him in
New York City.

(Baden testified on behalf
of Q.J. Simpson that the vic-
tims’ knife wounds probably
were caused by more than
one assailant.)

According to his wife's
papers, Baden once per-
formed a pair of autopsies on
the couple’s dining room
table, once asked her permis-
sion to tapregnate his girl-
friend, and once told her he
could kill her and make it
fook like a natural death,

The owners of KZZC-FM
have ended 18 consecutive
months of being an all-/
Heard’ Ie Through the
Grapevine station, playing
various versions of that song
all day, seven days a week
(except once, when it played
the Eagles’ New Kid in Town
for a whole weekend).

The California station was
pending sale, and the owner
needed just to keep the fre-
quency occupied, but negoti-
ations dragged on much
longer than expected.

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5 Ceramic

China Daily story, 40 million
Chinese live in caves, bur
many are leaving for regular
houses, putting a strain on
the available arable Jand in
some areas.

Thus, architects working
for the government are
designing — futuristic cave
homes in Gansu, Henan and
Shanxi provinces to encour-
age the cave dwellers to stay
pur.

Because of overcrowding
at the Chilliwack courthouse,
jury selection in a January
manslaughter case = was
removed to a local communi-
ty centre, bur because of
other court business taking
place there, jury selection was
further removed to the cen-
tre’s men’s room.

Said prosecutor Henry
Waldock, “When you start
holding hearings in a bath-
room, I fear it may diminish
the respect for the justice sys-
tem in the cyes of the pub-
wees

And in Miami, the gar-
goyles on the 24th floor of
the Dade County courthouse
have been suffering since
November the dreaded swal-
lows-at-Capistrano-like inva-
sion of several thousand
migrating vultures.

The Associated Press
reperts that many handi-
capped and deformed kids
from the village oof
Murshidabad, India, were
being sold by ‘their parents to
middlemen who would place
them in Saudi Arabia cities as
street beggars.

For those who didn’t have
such children but still wanted
a picce of the action, the traf-
fickers took on private
investors, offering a 50%
return within a few months.

CJ} Heat Gouge
(Cooking Grill

(3 Control Kwobs

of the Association of Coupon
Frofessionals, explaining to
columnist Martin Sloane why
sO many companies have
switched = from — overseas
processors to prison-labor
processors: “Employee stabil-
ity is always an issue overseas,
but most of the inmates
(working for coupon compa-
nies) are serving long terms.”

Palm Harbor, Florida —
Elementary school teacher
Patricia Locke beat a DUI rap
in November, and was rein-
stated by the school board as
a result, when she argued suc-

cessfully that the reason she
appeared disoriented while
driving was that a silicone
breast implant ruptured and i
poisoned her nervous system. Bi

Dr. William D. Cone, 71,3
recently went on trial on 19
counts of sexual assault in JB
Missouri, allegedly commit- i
ted against a 37-year-old§
female patient. 2

According to the patient,§
Cone’s “re-parenting theory”
of counseling (i.e. regressing iM
the patient to the age when @
parental flaws are prominent
and then overcoming them) ff
required him to play the role §
of her mother and to allow
her to suckle him to compen-
sate for her not having been
breastfed.

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