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THINKING about
switching your mode of
commute from the four-
wheeled to the two-
wheeled variety?

You don’t have to go it
alone if you drag, your old 10-
speed or mountain bike out of

¢ basement, get it tuned up
and grab your helmet before
Sunday, May 30.

That’s the first day of Bike
Week 1999, a public education
campaign organized by Better
Environmentally Sound
Transportation (BEST) to raise
the profile of cycling.

The fourth annual bicycle
celebration in Greater
Vancouver runs until June 6.

North Vancouver District
launched Bike Week by offi-
cially opening the Lynn Creck
Crossing Bridge and the
Mountain and Lynn Valley
bike ways. The bike ways are
part of the North Vancouver
Bicycle Network, a series of
bicycle routes connecting
important destinations
throughout North Vancouver.

And on Friday,

sportation and Highways
Minister Harry Lali announced
that North Vancouver will also
receive a provincial grant to
improve its cycling paths. The
provincial contribution comes
from the Cycling Network
Program funded by the B.C.
Transportation Financing,
Authorin.

The $115,500 grant will be
used to construct bike. lanes
and a separate path along Low
Level Road Espianade to
Moody Avenue. The grant will

be matched by a contribution
from the city.

But not all the improve-
ments for cyclists are taking
place in North Van. In West
Vancouver, Bike Week will see
the addition of bike racks to
the community's blue buses,
giving cyclists easy access to the
Lions Gate Bridge and to the
ferries.

Other Bike Week activities
include:

@ Sunday, May 30: An
Evening Lantern Ride from 9
to Il p.m. Mect at the
Vancouver Art Gallery with
lanterns, Eghts and costumes
and join in a festive ride
through the city into Stanley
Park.

@ Wednesday, June 2: It’s
Clean Air Day and workplaces
all over Vancouver are taking
part in the Commuter
Challenge by encouraging
employees to take alternative
forms of transportation to
work. Register your workplace
with Kari at BEST, 669-2860.
Secondary school students,
meanwhile, will participate in
the Go Green Challenge by
walking, cycling and taking the
bus to school.

B® Thursday, June 3: It’s Bike
to School Day for elementary
school students throughout
the region. The children will
be taking part in bicycle educa-
tion activities and be encour-
aged to ride to school.

For more information

Week, call BEST at

“are information
about the North Vancouver
Bicycle Network, contact the
district. engineering depart-
ment at 990-2450, or city
engineering department at
985-7761.

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A 27-year-old) man in
Springtield, IIL, called) the
local State Journal-Register
newspaper in April to say that
he is the one police have been
calling “Sock Man” and that
he promised to stop his antics
if editors would noc print his
name. According to police, he
approached nwo women and

promised them $100 each iF

they would go home, get
some of their socks, and leave
them for him at designated
points. One took him up on
the offer, but he reneged on
the payment. Police Lt. Carl
Sprinkel said the man would
not be charged: “It's no
crime to be weird.”

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In March, the Burlington
Homes housing development
near’) Bakersfield, 9 Calif,

rejected the application of

attorney Timothy Liebaert
and his wife for a_five-bed-
room home, citing the com-

sion to lawyers

imp: higher legal and
ad istrative costs, which
frustrates Burlington Homes’
efforts to keep its prices
down, Of course, when
informed of Burlington
Homes’ rejection of his appli-
cation, Liebaert sued.

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Low Unemployment in
the Hit-Man Profession: In
October, Brandon Lund, 16,
was convicted of hiring a hit
rman to kill his father because,
according to the prosecutor,
“He just didn’t like the way
(he) was running the house-
hold.”

And in March, landlord

in Weiss, 46, was sen-
tenced to seven years in
prison for hiring a hit man
(unsuccessfully) to kill two of
his tenants so he could re-
tease their apartments at
higher rents.

And in Lahore, Pakistan, in
April, according to police, a
32-year-old woman was shot
to death by a hit man hired by
her father because she had
shamed him by seeking a
divorce from her husband.

yu.

In March, two. protessors
reported that results of their
identical, polls on ethical
questions, asked of graduate

business students and then of

inmates at three Midwestern
prisons, vielded rem :
similar results. In fact,
inmates were judged more
Joyal to emplovers than were
the MBAs, And the San Dieao
Union-Tribune reported in
April that 25) business-cthics
students at San Diego State
University flunked the course,
for cheating on an exam.

aaa

In March, John Killick,
57, who wes being held in a
maximum-security prison in
Sydney, Australia, on armed-
robbery charges, was sprung
from the exercise vard by a
helicopter, which his girt-
friend had hijacked at gun-
point. The couple are still at
large.

g900

Animal stories: Three cows
escaped trom a barn in
Ancaster, Ontario, in April,
and when cornered by animal
control officers, two escaped
by leaping over a police cruis-
er and remained on the lam
for two more hours betore
being tranquilized.

And a weck later, follow-
ing a one-truck accident on
the Capital Beltway near
Alexandria, Va., the driver’:
dog Tito was found in excel
lent condition. He could not
have crossed the Beltway on
foot at that point; the only
way he could have been
where he was was to have
been ejected over a four-foot
concrete barrier and four
lanes of traffic and to have
landed in the soft grass.

During an April su in
Brooksville, Fla., Luicy Dover,
79, was knocked to the
ground by a 15-pound red
fox, breaking her hip and ren-
dering her unable to get up.
Periodically, the fox attacked
Dover, clawing and biting her
repeatedly, until she grabbed
it behind the head and by the
tail and held it at bay for the
next 12 hours, until her land-

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Patricia Dolinska, 27, was
arrested for shoplifting from a
grocery store in Ottawa,
Ontario, in April. According
to police, underneath
Dolinska’s long skirt were
three whole chickens, a pork
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According to a) March
ort in the London Daily
rqraph, Saddam Hussei
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planned 60-member suiside-
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