hours of community work. A West Vancouver teacher picked up two awards at an iiterna- j tional whistling cham- pionship held last month in Edmonton. Rockridge Junior Secondary School teacher and counsellor Barry Rector com: peted in’ the Millennium World © Championships Musical Whistling. Rector has won. several aday in court From page 411 Al-Karim Karsan, 32, of West Vancouver, was fined $2,000 after he pleaded to failing to file 1994 corporate income tax feturns for Caulfield (sic) Holdings Inc. and Huron Property Management Inc. Karsan was a director of the companies, according to the charges. , eee - Peter Russell Henderson, 41, of North Vancouver, » received a 60 day conditional . sentence after he pleaded guilty to stealing merchandise belonging to Wal-Mart Canada on March 6 in North Vancouver City. Henderson was to do 30 Before Judge Bill on May 6: ‘Chris. Gardiner, no age available, of Vancouver, was fined $500 after he pleaded - guilty to being the “master of the motor vessel” Malecite which did not have enough Jlifejackets on board in July Judge 1996. mR . Before Ellen _ Burdett on May 5: ‘ Robert Balfour Logan, 34, : of North Vancouver, was jailed one day after he pleaded - ‘guilty to steal merchandise . belonging to Westfair Foods Ud. on Feb. 22'in North - Vancouver District. — wo) eee “Sean Charles O'Sullivan, 42, of Vancouver, was jaiied one’ nionth “after he pleaded guilty to: “@ using a-ctolen Sears credit’ card on Dec. 22, .1997 in . North Vancouver District; - B failing to ‘go to court on Jan.6 0 Before Judge Bill Rodgers on May 5: Larry John Davis, 26, of Surrey, was fined $300 and had his driver's licence sus- pended three months after he pleaded not guilty to impaired driving, but instead pleaded guilty to the lesser or included offence of driving without due care and attention. The original =~ charge stemmed from an April 19, 1998 incident in North Vancouver District. Before Judge Doug Moss on May 4: Michael Dean Doyle, 30, of North Vancouver, was fined $500 and had his dri- ver's licence suspended for ~ three months after he pleaded not guilty to impaired driving, but instead pleaded guilty to the lesser or included offence of driving without due care and attention. The original — charge stemmed from a May 17, 1998 incident in West Vancouver. Before Judge Rodgers on May 3: Anthony Frank Grad, 46, of Vancouver, was jailed one day and received 12 months’ probation after he pleaded guilty to: @ stealing merchandise from a fiquor store on May 2, 1998 in West Vancouver; failing to go to court on July 8, 1998 and on March 3. Before Judge Jerome Paradis on April 28: Alan Jeffery Roy, 18, of North Vancouver, was fined $400 and had his driver’s licence suspended for i2 Bill ‘months after he pleaded guilty to driving while prohibited on “Marine. 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Wednesday, October 6, 1999 — North Shore News - 47 West Van teacher whistling a happy tune There was some friendly competition between Rector and Kilgour Shives of West Vancouver, as initially they tied for third in the Male Popular with a score of 89% each. They were then asked to whistle another tune which Rector won with a mark of 93.5% from the four judges (third place) and Kilgour 89.7% (fourth place). In the Male Classical cate- gory of these whistling Olympics, the final scores were close with Barimo obtaining 95.8%, Ullman and Rector tied with 95.3% and Tanguay with 94% Shives was close behind in sixth place. Said Rector’s wife, Merle Rector, “Having been ta sev- eral competitions during the past 17 years, Barry and [ were amazed at the class act attention to detail at this competition, the first one ever held in Canada, included whistlers from the the U.S., Canada and, from as far afield as England, Germany, Holland and Taiwan.” A gala closing night con- cert was attended by an audi- ence of over 1,000. Geta Grip this winter. 859-2202 » 437-4771 | »» 941-3450 «+ 591-1154 940-6388 Surrey Vancouver; . en Communications. - © QUESTION: Will Weyerhacuser commit to seeking ongoing community input for the MacMillan Bloedel operations? ANSWER: Yes. In recent meetings with community leaders, we committed to face-to-face communications with peopie in our eperating communities. - . 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