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A thiret for helping others led Greg Oberti to head a fundraising effort by West Vancouver International Baccalaureate students,
who took the plunge and raised $2,000 to go toward building drinking wells In Laos through humanitarian aid program Food for
Hunger. The federal government tripled the contribution.

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Council approves $568, 690 to beautify 14th Street corridor

By Jolanda V Waskito |

I carnley questioned why the area needed any improving,

“TE take my kids here for lunch,” Fearnley said. “We? re
Approving this as if there's something wrong with this area.”
But other councillors said the civie plaza is nut dynamic.

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IT'S “a colossal waste of
money” according to at least one North: *

. Vancouver City politician. See Phasa paye 3

Mast of Bob Fearnley’s fellow councillors disagreed: and
decided Monday to spend $568,000 to beautify the 4th Street
plaza in front of city hall

NORTH Van City councillors Stella Jo Dean
and Bob Fearniey voted against a $568,000
expenditure to revamp this plaza.

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| Hearing —
resumes

THE Human Rights
Tribunal hearing
involving the North
Shore News, its colum-
nist Doug Collins and
the Canadian Jewish
Congress is set to
resume on Monday,

The.hearing, Whieh bepan on
May 12) fas been suspend for
the past two wicks to allow Nitya
fyer, the tribunal of one, to deal
svith a avectionl matter,

A location for the reconvened
hearing was a mystery until early
Friday morning when it was deter-
mined that the tribunal would sit
athe Century Plaza Hotel, 1015
Burrard St, Vancouver, starting at,
9:30 am. :

The bulk of hearing evidence
has been giver at the small Police
Cunmnission buardraom, §t5
Hornby St, Vancouver, “The
vente for the hearing, has moved
several times.

I began in the Century Phiza,
moved to the police boardroom
and then moved again to the.
Holiday Inn on Howe Street to
hear the testimony’ of Doug
Collins. The hearing is the first in
Canada in which a human rights
tribunal is considering a complaint
over a newspaper coltunn,

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