Recent Fila . . . .Avstia Powers:

the provincial
court to face various

Judge. Reginald -

_ Grandison on March 3: °
* Wesley James Ardiel, 19, of
was jailed seven days
and fined 4.§300 after he plead:
ed guilty to driving while pro-
a ‘Cyprese Bowl Road

led guilty. to: rang a-

North

aby,
he pleaded not ‘guilty ,to failing
to comply

e Diebolt on Mat
: May 10:

ith: 1 breathalyser :

demand, but instead pleaded
guilty to the lesser or included
offence of driving without due
care and attention.

The ._ original “charge

_stemmed from a June 15, 1997

incident in West Vancouver.
eee

Tarrik Sweiss, 25, of North
Vancouver, received 12

-months’. probation aftcr he
pleaded “guilty to “obtaining

money by false pretence at the

. Toronto: Dominion Bank in

Whistler between Oct 1,.1997
and Oct. 15, 1997. ~
Sweiss was Tequired to pay
$2, 723.01 restitution,
- Before Judge. William
2 and on

vid Wayne Bates, 46, of

’ Barnaby; and Stefan Wade

Isherwood, 30,- of ' North
Vancouver, ‘pleaded not guilty
to assault causing bodily harm
ofa man on April 7, 1998 in
North Vancouver District, but

- instead pleaded guilty to the

lesser. or included offence of

_assault.

Bates was, sentenced to 14

~—, days in jail.’

Isherwood. reccived three

years? probation... .

_. fred.

Sunday, July 18, 1999 — North Shore News — 14

Jon't mess with the parrot

THE director of the world-
wide charity Feed the
Children, Steve Highfill, and
several administrative empioy-
ces were caught on tape in
May by Nashville, Tenn., TV
station WIVF tsking home
boxes of goods that had been
donated for impoverished
kids.

Highfill. saw nothing
wrong with that: “If that’s
wrong, fine. 1 don’t think so,
and I don’t think people are
going to think so.”

Apparently, people did
think so because the next day,
Highfill resigned, and a w eck
after,

Soa

York County (Pa.} report-
ed in June thar its Resource
Recovery Center had found
about $43,000 in carelessly
discarded coins among the
previous year’s trash.

Also in June, the Miami-
Dade County (Fla.) govern-
mene announced the demo-
tion of an administrator in
charge of prccessing parking
meter collections.

The 21-year veteran hadn’t
quite gotten around to

. depositing about $150,000 in

coins — collected over a four-
year period — to the bank.

900

Weird Animals

Three researchers at the
University of Sheffield,
England, reported in May
that they had found a unique
bird whose males not only
experience orgasms during sex
but are alse equipped with a
penis-like protrusion (though
it does not contain a sperm
duct).

The male buffalo weaver
bird uses the protrusion to
stimulate the female so that
when he expels sperm, the
female will be better able to
accommodate them.

Awesome Dogs:

Casey, a golden retriever in
Raytown, Mo., made the

news in April by recovering

from three gunshot woun
to the head.

And Suzzy, a German
Shepherd in Granite City, Ii!.,
made a fine. recovery after
surgery in March to remove
$7.37 in coins she had swal-
lowed.

Meanwhile with the help
of tucal_ residents, a Husky
called Whitey has eluded ani-
mal control officers: in the
town of Laconia, N.H. (popy-
lation 15,000), for more than
a year now, despite officers’
frequent sightings.

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According to police in
Sieux Lookout, Ontario, the
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to end traffic stop bribes,
started offering free rice to
ticketed motorists who come
to the station te pay their cita-

tions.

The city of Graz,
Austria, said it would start
paying beggars abour $260
per month io stay out of sight.

A fire “extinguisher
exploded from the heat of a
fire in the home of a 70-year-
old woman and spewed foam
wildly, which doused the fire

9200 (Rochester, Minn.).

Also, in the Last Month... -_ About 1,000-Patistaiit”
. An arson, syspecs-tred-co— CITCKEE fans angrily surround-
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the roof of a building while national team and threw rocks
admiring the fire he allegedly at his windows two days after
started (St. Louis). the team Jost the world tite to
. Bangkok police, trying Australia.

Giuseppe Avarna, 83 (the
Duke of Gualtieri), died in
Messina, Sicily.

The Duke — achieved
celebrity in the 1980s when
he abandoned his family and
took up with a young
American female flight atten-
dant. He then proceeded to
irritate his wife for years by
ringing a chapel bell in their
village every time he and the
young woman made love.

a burglarized house in May
belonged to the thief, cour-
tesy of the homeowner's par-
rot, which attacked the perp
and drove him out.

Said a police spokesman,
“The bird was fairly
annoyed.”

And ins an April
Stroudsburg, Pa., trial of a
man accused of burglary,
prosecutors subpoenaed a par-
rot which was abducted in the
crime, hoping it could identi-
fy the thief in court, but the
bird was noncommitral.

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told reporters in St.
Petersburg thar he had
achieved an 80% success rate
in curing alcohol addiction by
removing a part of the brain
that he says facilitates such
addiction.

And in April, a University
of Toronto researcher con-
cluded that patients with brain
damage to the right frontal
lobe don’t get the punchlines
of jokes, even though they
laugh easily at simpler kinds of
humour, such as Japstick.

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