Fetore.........open 9 piano lovage Evergreen looks to grow recruits THE Evergreen Foundation’s B.C. Mode! Schools project is in its second recruitment stage for schools to model envi- ronmental stewardship through habitat cre~ ation. This project provides schools with 1% ycars of hands-on help to transform 10% of participating school grounds into places where students learn to live with, and learn from, local wildlife, insects and native plant species. . Blueridge elementary was a pilot model school. The “A family owned business since 1984” |: 1396, Crowe St. A.Van. - foundation is interested in developing other North Shore model schools. The Evergreen Foundation is presenting an introductory workshop to interested school community members on April 12 at L’ccole Bilingue, also a pilot model school in Vancouver. Funded through EcoAction 2000, Environment Canada, B.C. model-school participants act as models for other schools in the district, and the province. For more information on the project, or the April 12 workshop, call Denise Philippe at the Evergreen Foundation 689-0766. Wardrobe Organized Our Closet Organizers are the i perfect solution to help you weed out and tidy up your wardrobe. Our “Simplicity”. system will keep everything in order including your shoes and accessories! * Ask about our custom designs © We alsc carry WOODLINES custom built furniture for home or office. Heys Learn the fi THE Seattle Police Department has ordered the 26 employees in its finger- print unit to attend a manda- tory, half-hour safety class in how to sit down. Recently, three of the unie’s employees bad filed worker compensation claims for injuries that occurred as they were attempting to sit in chairs with rollers. The proper technique, according to an_ internal memo, is, “Take hold of the arms and get control of the chair before sitting down.” News of the Weird reported last October on the on-the- job death by snake bite of ser- pent-handling preacher John W. (Punkin) Brown Jr. Because Brown's wile died three years earlier (also of a snake bite during services in Kentucky), the Browns’ three children were objects of a custody fight between the owo sets of grandparents. In February, the wife's Parents won primary custody, in part because Mr. Brown's parents had allegedly violated an earlier court order never to take the children to a snake- handling church. eee Constable Caro! Hashiniota told the Edsienten Journal- that she had recently ministered to, over the phone, a man who was severely guilt-racked that he had driven home to Valleyview, Alberta, four hours away, without his dri- ver’s licence, which he had accidentally left in an Edmonton hotel room. Charlotte, North Carolina — At his February sentencing for laundering moncy others had taken in a robbery, John Calvin Hodge Sr, 69, revealed thar indeed he had declared his $40,000 launder- ing fee on his IRS return and had paid the tax on it. Durham, North Carolina — William L. Straiter, 26, was recently arrested and charged with robbing the Centura Bank. The robber had presented a teller with a note demand- f the weird ing money and containing a finely detailed drawing of a gun, bue Straiter did not actually have a gun and was not charged with armed rob- bery. However, Terry Williams, 23, was arrested in Oakland after a road-rage collision in which he allegedly clasped his empty hands as if he had a gun, pointed at the other dri- ver and velled “Bang!” The prosecutor charged Williams with making a ter- roristic threat, in that his ges- ture would likely “provoke a retaliatory response from someone with a weapon.” A 12-year-old girl in Phoenix, who said she had been molested by her grand- father for four years, con- vinced police to arrest him when she handed officers a bottle in which she had gath- ered his sperm; she said she got the idea from an episode of TV’s NYPD Blue. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission recently announced that it would scale back its terrorist-combating safety inspections of nuclear power plants, despite the fact thay the companies fail inspections about haif the time and that in 14 of 57 inspections since 1991, the breaches have been so severe that terrorists could have caused a core meftdown. Furthermore, in each inspection, the power compa- ny even knew the exact date of the “surprise” inspection, althoagh it did not know exa.tly what area or tactic the NAC would use co test the plaut’s security. eee The mayor of South Gate, which is adjacent to Los Angeles, proposed an ordi- nance banning the colours “wild orange, rose, lavender and turquoise” on houses. One resident said he'd paint over his colourful house only if the mayor had a good reason, “like if cars were 7:00 p LIVE! ar Friday, April 16 crashing into cach other because the drivers were look- ing at (my house), Or if it hurt people's eyes.” A 46-yeur-old bass-bari- tone for the Cleveland Opera hanged hirmself in December, reportedly distraught over a bad rehearsal for Lucia di Lammermoor, In Indiana, a 53-year-old man shot himself to death because, according to a 91] tape, he thought his wife was having an affair on the Internet. And in November, a 26- year-old) man in) southern Thailand feapt from a sixth- Friday, April 9, 1999 — North Shore News — 44 art of si floor window to his death, reportedly because his wife had refused to let the two additional wives he had just brought home stay with the couple. Joliet, Hlinois — City council recently passed an ordinance requiring, builders to make houses less boring by mixing up their aesthetic fea- tures and colours. Said city councilor Joseph Shetina, who supported the ordinance because too many row houses look alike: “You go home drunk, and you'd never know which house was yours,” 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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