a day in court THE following people have appeared in North Vancouver provincial court to face various charges: Before Judge Reginald Grandison on March 17: Kathrina Madeteine McKinney, 32, of West Vancouver, was fined $500 after she pleaded not guilty to impaired dei- ving, but instead pleaded guilty to the lesser or included offence of driving without reasonable consideration. The original charge stemmed from a March 19, 1998 inci- dent in West Vancouver. aecce Scott Douglas Bradford, 32, of New Westminster, was jailed 30 days and received 24 months’ probation after he was found guilty of assaulting a man on May 15, 1998 in North Vancouver City. Bradford was prohibited from possessing guns for five years. eee Den John Den, 35, of Vancouver, received 12 months’ robation after he pleaded guilty to stealing merchandise clonging to Save-On-Foods on June 2, 1998 in North Vancouver District. Den was required to perform 100 hours of community work. Before Judge William Dicbolt on March. 12: Sam Danay Devlin, 23, of Vancouver, was jailed 30 days after he pleaded guilty to stealing merchandise belonging to a liquor store on March 11 in North Vancouver District. mews of the weird Windew-shonping for naked melons RECENT events at Tesco, Britain’s most eccentric supermarket chain. January: considered — allowing its Hastings store to run a nude- shopping night after the nor- mal closing hour (but even- tually declined because of the potential for mishandling of fresh fruits and vegetables). May: told farmers to grow smaller melons after focus groups reported that large melons made small-busted female customers feel inferi- or, May: tested its pies ballis- tically after receiving a surge of requests for recommenda- tions on which of its pies is best for throwing (answer: egg custard). June: began a program to sew instructions on self-testing for testicular cancer into men’s under- Wear. 920 According to a July dis- patch fram the Agence France-Presse news service, a group of Yugoslavs wll ansounce on Sept. 9 the cre- ation of a cyber version of their undivided, pre-199% country, with citizenship papers, passports and, even- tually, it hopes, United Nations membership. Cyber Yugoslavia has already signed up thousands but will not occupy physical space, except about 20 square metres somewhere on Earth, to house its Internet server, Now at , 900 In April, Citizens Bank, the holder of the mortgage on Edward J. Brown's $99,000 Dartmouth, Mass., home, sold it at auction for $60,000 because Brown had dallied over paying the final $324 last year. He had made 299 of the 300 payments but held off on the last one because he mistakenly thought having a mortgage reduced his legal liability. Brown also appar- ently ignored several letters and phone calls inquiring about the final payment. Goa Uh-Oh: In April, the administration at Princeton University reaffirmed its fac- ulty Australian philosophy profes- sor Peter Singer to a presti- gious chair in bioethics, say- ing that “the strength of his teaching and his research” outweighs “any particular Point of view” he holds. One of Singer’s points of view is thar parents have the right to kill their severely deformed children in the first month of ife. Qo00 In May the National Foundation for Ectodermal Dysplasias (disorders affect- ing the teeth, hair, nails and sweat glands of children) complained that it was hard enough to raise money for research for such obscure disorders without having ICBC HAS A TEAM OF LAWYERS, SHOULDN'T YOU? ¢ All claims have time limits Documents you sign can be used against you. 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