THE ENVIRONMENTAL Assessment Centre in Okayama, Japan, announced last month that it had manufactured an experi- mental sausage out of recycled Tokyo sewage by adding soybean protein and steak flavoring to “sewage solids.” A spokesman said, ‘Sewage isn’t teally such a dangerous and dirty thing.” However, he did not foresee comercially marketing the Sausage. ‘‘Sewage does have a slight image problem,’’ he said. ‘1 don’t think. people will be coritent eating something they know has been excreted by humans.” Also last month, Mohammad Jafari. was shot point-blank: be- tween the eyes with a. .22-calibre pistol during a convenience store holdup’ in Memphis, Tennessee, but the bullet failed to penetrate _ his skull, Jafari was back at work the ‘next day, with only. a. nine- stitch wound. Said Jafari, ‘I have ahard head.) ° : The Washington Post reported in August: that there are 3,000 pet.: therapists inthe U.S., including 50° fully certified. animal behaviorists, -and- that they charge fees ranging from: US$150 t0 US$400 for one ‘The Brass & Fern A” okay, usten uP tm by fan: LM YouR WATTRESS, BAY A FER GROUND RULES.:. 3 company | uN SPEGAL ORDERS, J MAKE ONLY TWO TRIS TO THE. y KITCHEN. YOU GET THIRTY MIN- EAT. YOU DON'T MAKE eee UTES TO AM NEWS OF THE WEIRD Compiled by A.P. McCredie three-hour session. Said one pet therapist, “‘There’s a reason for everything animals do.”* Added a skeptical veterinarian, ‘The pets aren’t crazy. The humans are ‘After he crashed a stolen car in ‘September, Mark David Warner, 29, hopped on a 13-ton front-end loader at a construction site and led: eight . police cars in a 40- You? \ Leadbellies ok, TAKG@ A ‘Letter. PEAR SIRS— IN ANSweR. To YOUR. | IN QUIRM.. Doe " Problerns of running a small business. Mineahy minute, 15 mph chase down a highway near Orlando Interna- tional Airport in Florida. Warner, just five days out of prison at the * time, was charged with attempted murder for ramming one occupied police car. Said a security guard who witnessed the scene, ‘‘No one in his right mind would do those kinds of things.” In August, delegates to the na- tional convention of the Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith in Charleston, West Virginia, celebrated by wearing stylish hats, as socialites Go at events such as the Kentucky Derby. Said one delegate, ‘*We glorify God when we wear hats.” Many delegates brought hat wardrobes with them, and 14 hat vendors set up booths at the con- vention. In June, Stuart Bowyer, a Uni- versity of California astronomer in charge of a year-old project that has monitored 30 trillion radio signals from outer space, said that so far, 164 of those signals are “*unexplained.’? However, he said that it was ‘‘very unlikely” that any of them came from extra- terrestrials. AND MY TIP 15 25%. | Now... NHAT CAN T GET > Why cats don’t wear corduroyst by Thomas Burton Please volunteer an hour or two of your time to canvass your neighbourhood on behalf of people with physical disabilities in the: January 15-31, 1994 Please Call: 736-9171 . Kinsmen Rehabilitation Foundation of B.C. ~” 2256 West 12th Avenue, Vancouver, B.C.VSK 4L2 Believe it or not, ; election time is fast approaching - again. . As it did during the recent federal election, the North Shore News will focus on election issues raised by the newspaper's editorial board, candidates and members of the public. Background information on all of the candidates running for the available council and school board seats in the North Shore's three municipalities and two school districts will be published in : upcoming issues of the News prior to election day. Watch coming News editions for biographies on the candidates and all the candidates meetings in your area. THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER | nM SUNDAY * WEDMESDAY « FRIDAY