NEWS photo Terry Peters A North Shore resident since 1974, Eleanor Oakley has been’ a Scouts volunteer for 11 years. She started as a parent helper for beavers and cubs, and Is now in her fourth year as president of Capilano District Scouts. Oakley, who has two sons, says It’s “very rewarding to see the kids develop.” Catherine Barr - Contributing Writer IT’S time to scrub up «othe anti-graffiti pro- ’ gram, says North Van City. Council. This “week, the ‘council approved further measures to ; fight the war on graffiti with- in its borders. On" average, - the . city, spends approximately. $20,000 yearly on the prob- lem. : The. money .comes _ from ‘the. annual streets and parks operating budget. It does not fund graffiti. eradication on _ private property. «But. extra measures . must “now be taken in what council feels .is a: persistent, and maybe even growing prob: : lem. \ In April, council directed’, staff to work with RCMP staff. *. and community policing vol- -- unteers to monitor the prob- ” lem and report back..2. : But since then, the- city’s volunteer. program coordina- tor has resigned, leaving the . “whole graffiti eradication plan * in limbo. | - Last. month, councillors “received .. an’ information report that examined the ways ‘in which other local munici- palities tackle the problem. - < Surrey, for example, coor- ‘dinates. their attack on taggers through a: non-profit Crime Prevention Society. In the District of North - Vancouver, they have a graffi- ti hotline. | Vancouver employs a full-time anti-graf- fiti_ coordinator who ‘works with volunteers and - drives around in. a van looking for culprits. _ | West Vancouver is still in the process of building a pro- gram. Still, that more “must be done. re er ee councillors . believe ~ They will continue their con- sultation with policing bodies in an attempt to find a com- nows of the weird Grownups sett GROWN-UPS Serting Examples: Orto Benjamin II, 39, was arrested in May in Fayetteville, Ark., and charged with second- -degree battery after police found that he had been disciplining his 15-year- old son by biting him, includ- ing several recent incidents that had left permanent scars (on the car, upper nose area, lip, finger, left thigh, shoulder and right forearm). 2900 Campaign 2000: In September, Robert Salzberg finished a strong second (26 per cent) in the Democratic primary for a U.S. House seat from Sarasota, Fla., despite Bo you know a Silent Hero? Send your nomina- tions to: Terry Peters, North Shore News, 1139 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver, B.C. 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Q00 Among recent news reports of stupefyingly high real estate prices in the San Francisco area: a plain three-bedroom house in a nice Palo Alto neighbour- hood, offered for $3.5 million (renting for $12,000 a month), and a 1,000-square-foot house in San Francisco that “needs everything done to it,” accord- ing to an agent, offered at $279,000 but which will sell for much more because as of Sept. 1, 48 people had bid on it. 499 Rights in Conflict: Newsstand clerk Mike Redina, 44, wha is blind, was fired in July because an underage boy illegally bought cigarettes from him (Hauppauge, N.Y.). Chevron lost an employment discrimination case in May because its doctor recommend- Sunday, September 24, 2000 ~ North Shore News - 11 ed rejecting an application from a man with a liver disor- der because the work site was a highly toxic part of a refinery. and the company would almost certainly have been liable if the man had gotten sicker (El Segundo, Calif.). Parents Michae! and Jill Carroll were forced by a court to give their son, seven, his prescribed Ritalin to regulate his schoo! behaviour despite the boy’s loss of sleep and appetite (Albany, NY). oaaga Also, in the Last Month: Exalnp: ES Workers at a seafood plant found a human head inside a five-foot-long cod and tenta- tively identified it as that of a former crew member on the boat that caught the fish (Cairns, Australia). City Coliege of New — York announced it will piovide stu- derits, staff and faculty with professional philosophy coun- selling in its health-care facility. Police called to an apartment where a man had been dead for a week were held at bay for evo hours by the man’s 18 cats, aggressively guarding the body (Cairo, Egypt). 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