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Age 2.0... WY
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Travelled .... . St. Thomas, 5i. Lucia,
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THE following people
have appeared in North
Vancouver provincial
court:

Before Judge J.K. Shaw
on Jan. 14:

. «Adnan Saleem, 33, of
Surrey, was fined $600 and
had_ his Ariver’s licence sus-
pended for 60 days after he
pleaded not guilty to impaired
driving, but instead pleaded
guilty to the lesser or included

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offence of driving without
consideration.

The original charge
stemmed from a June I, 1999
incident in North Vancouver
District.

Before Judge Reginald
Grandison on Dee. 6, 1999:

Ken Ohira, 52, of West
Vancouver, was fined $650
and had his driver's licence
suspended for six months after
he:

@ pleaded not guilty to
impaired driving, but instead
pleaded guilty to the lesser or
included atfence of driving
without due care and atten-
tion;

@ pleaded not guilty to dan-
gerous driving, but instead
pleaded guilty to failing to
safely stop when signalled by a
police officer

The original charges
stemmed from Oct. 13, 1999
incidents in West Vancouver.

A Japanese interpreter was
required for court.

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NEW CANADA AVINGS BONDS:

YOU'RE ON SOLID GROUND.

IN December in) Alberta,
John Ebeling, 40, lost control
of his pickup truck, crashed
into a speeding freight train
(onto which the truck hooked
and was dragged along the
tracks}, freed himself from the
truck onte the side of the
train, held on for about 12
miles until he managed to
uncouple the car he was an
(causing the ain to brake
and his rail car to smash inte
it), and rode the out-of con-
trol car into a ditch. Thirteen
cars were derailed, and power
lines were downed, but
Ebeling walked away with
only miner bruises.

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State and federal authon-
ties recently refused emer-
gency water-quality funds to
the town of Browning, Mont.
(population 1,100), finding
after extenstve testing that the
water is safe to drink even
though it was described in a
February Associated Press
report as “mucky brown and
silty.” “gritty black,” “filthy”
and “revolting.” ‘The water's
excessive iron and manganese
violate no law, officials say,
and gs tong as the bacteria
count is low, only longer-
range improvements (such as
digging more wells) can he
considered.

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Mixed News for Women:
Twenty wives petitioned for
divorce in Cairo, Egypt, on
March 1, the inaugural day in

Before Judge Doug Moss
on Noy. 23:
Jaimee Rabich Bernstein,

5, of West Vancouver, was -

jailed seven days and fined
$300 after she pleaded guilty
to driving while prohibited on
Marine Drive on Sept. 23,
1999 in West Vancouver.

The jail sentence was rec-
ommended served by elec-
tronic monitoring.

Before Judge William
Diebole on Oct. 22, 1999:

David Allan Friesen, 42, of
no fixed address, was jailed
four months after he pleaded
guilty to:
@ stealing = merchandise
belonging to Save-On-Foods
on Oct. 19, 1999 in North
Vancouver District;
§ ss staling = merchandise
belonging to Save-On-Foods
on March 16, 1999 in
Abbotsford.

Before Judge Reginald

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which wives were cligible to
file without elaborate proof of
abuse. (They must sil) wait
three to six months for a rul-
ing, whereas a husband who
files gets his divorce instantly
and with no reason required.)

And in) February, South
Korea’s | national police
announced it would begin
placing unarmed female
troops on the front fines in
potentially violent street
demonstrations, boping to
calm) protesters. One rowdy
labor union leader, acknowl-
edging the wisdom of the
decision, adniitied, “How can
we attack femiaics?”

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Japanese Cult Mania: By
government estiniates, 6,500
religious cults operate in
Japan, according to a
December Basten Globe story.
Included are the $600 million
organization Honehana,
whose leader was accused by

the government in January of

defrauding disciples of up to
$100,000 to alter their nega-
tive fates as revealed by his
examinations of their ‘feet,
and Lite Space, whose
founder died in August but
whose body was discovered
by police in a Tokyo airport
horel room four months later,
being, ministered to by fol-
lowers as if he were stil) alive
{and in fet, che followers
insisted to the media that the
dried mummy was responding
nicely to their care and had
recently enjoved some tea).

Questionable Judgments:
According to a January Boston
Globe report, three million
residential customers _ still
lease AT&T telephones (from

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Lucent Technologies) at rates
of $33 t0 $252 (US) a year ,
virtually all of whom have
been doing so continuously
since the breakup of AT&T in
1984, Most of the customers
are elderly, and when a Globe
reporter asked whether they
were being exploited, the
Lucent spokesperson said,
‘As fong as there is demand
for the service, we will contin:
uc to provide it.”

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Also, in the Last Monin: A
sinth-grader won a $1,500
judgment in’ small claims
court against his school,
which lost his 161 Pokemor:
cards after confiscating then:
(Piusburg, Calif.) “Twenty-
one mayors and mere than
100 other officials lost their
jobs when a new. provincial
law in) Newfoundland took
effect, tossing Cut any office-
holder who owes back taxes.
A couple on a Valentine's Day

all his own stunts

holiday lit romantic candles,
accidentally setting a major
fice in their how? (Hull.
Quebso!. Tyo teenage boys
fled police cather than) stop
for a minor equipment viola-
tion bat were caught when
they accidentally crashed their
ear into a police station
(Modesto, Calif.), A 62-year-
old woman thought 2
stranger punched her in thy
neck, but it was a stabbing,
and othe four-inch — knite
remained in her neck for 40
iinutes wie she grocery:
shopped betore a passerby
pdated it out to ner (Darby
Vownship, Pa.) A Marvland
state senator introduced 2 bill
to make it illegal for one
woman to breastfeed anout-
ers baby. Las Vegas police
burst into an apartment and
arrested a Florida murder sus-
pect while he was watching
“America’s Most Wanted” on
TV, believing that his crime
would be featured that night.

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