we aes a NEWS photo Mike Wekatield NICOLE Cayer locks after 17 floors of “family” as the build- ing manager of Bellevue Towers in West Vancouver. She takes the mail up daily for seniors who are unable to get out, and checks to make sure they’re OK. Niccle also spends many hours decorat- ing the building for holidays. Do you know a Silent Hero? Send your nominations to Terry Peters, North Shore News, 1139 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver, B.C., V7M 2H4; or by e-mail to . _ © Anclude your name and phone number; the name and phone number of your nominee; and your reason for nominating the Silent Hero. municipal affairs — |. THE following are brief WEST VANCOUVER summarics of topics on the SCHOOL DISTRICT 45 agendas of North Shore The next regular board municipalities and school meeting is Tuesday, Nov. 14. boards: . — ; . NORTH VANCOUVER ._. DISTRICT COUNCIL The next regular council 7 p.m. - RICHARD Nelson, 40, tlee- ing on foot after being stopped in a stolen car, found his arm in the grip of Bear, a Canton, Ohio, police dog, and decided to retaliate by biting the dog on the nose to get it to logsen its grip. Instead, Nelson's bite caused Bear to tighten its jaw, so hard in fact that one of Bear's teeth broke offin Nelson’s arm and had to be surgically removed. 333 Oops!: Newcastle, England body piercer Lorna Larson accidentally hit a vein while working on the tongue of Gemma Danielson, 18, in July and by the time Danielson got to the hospital, she had lost four pints of blood. Said Danietson, “(Doctors) said they had never seen anything like it.” Larson said she was mortified: “That's the last tongue I do.” 929 Joseph Pileggi, 69, filed a lawsuit in’ Akron, Ohio, in July seeking money damages over his 1997 marriage to Carli’ Buchanan, 61. 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