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CHILDREN who attend Highlands preschool are gearing up for their annual children’s sale, taking place this

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Saturday, April 8 from 10 a.m. to noon at the school, 3255 Edgemont Bivd.

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~ Hockey wives will
catch charity. pledges

. THE wives of Canucks .
-coach: Mare Crawford
and players Todd

Bertuzzi, Ed.
:Jovanovski, and Brad
‘ May, all-North
‘Vancouver residents,

“will take part in the’
‘Canucks’ Cares for
‘Kids Teiethon today.

.¥Helene’ Crawford, Julic
--*Bertuzzi,- Kirstin’ Jovanovski
: and Brigette May will be part

ofa celebrity phone panel for

the telethon. - :

‘The: telethon takes place

>. “before . during and. after”

‘the: “- Canucks-Edmonton

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off pledges at the game.

IN January, a Teamsters union
local in Chicago, having pick-
eted Donnellan Funeral Home
for several months, decided to
step up the protests during a
funeral and. began to yell
chants as a woman’s body was
taken from Donnellan to a
church, where shouts of “Who
are we? We are Teamsters!”
greeted family. -members’
solemn arrivals. Next time,
vowed a union official, pick-
eters would proceed on to the
graveside ceremony with their
chanting. ~

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First Things First: From the
confessions of Pakistan’s noto-
rious serial killer Javed Iqbal,
whom police were unable to
catch but who surrendered in
December. after. having mur-
dered 100: young ‘men: “I
could have killed 506. This was
not a problem. Money was net
a problem. But the pledge I
had taken (when I started the
sprec) was of 100 children, and
I never wanted to violate this.”

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Under pressure from the
National Labour Relations
Board and the U.S. Equal
Employment Opportunity
Commission, a Holiday Inn in
downtown Minneapolis agreed
in January to pay $8,000 cach
to nine undocumented immi-

ants from Mexico whom it

d fired for helping with a
union organizing drive. One
EEOC o! compared the
men to civil. rights. pioneer
Rosa Parks for ightin their
dismissals, even ough they
were unlawfully holding. the
jobs from which they were

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Recurring Themes:
Hespitals in developing coun-
tries continue to have cash-
flow problems, as reported in
News of the Weird in 1996
(Zaire) and 1999 (Iran), where
strong-arm ‘tactics have been
used on patients who cannot
pay
2000, friends brought mug-
ging victim Wilson Owuor to a
. hespital in Nairobi, Kenya, but

were turned: away when

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their bills. In. January -

Qwuor was unable to make a
deposit. The men comman-
deered a stretcher, put Owuor
on it, and took him to ‘his
branch of the Kenya
Commercial Bank to withdraw
money so that he could be
admitted to the hospital.

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Also, in the Last’ Month:
The Humane Society removed
from the adoption list a parrot
whose ‘previous owner had
taught him to cuss and make a
noise like a human passing gas
(Charlotte, N.C.). In a case of
mistaken identity, .a ‘dentist

removed two teeth of an eight-
year-old boy who was merely
waiting for his sister in’ the
reception area (Auburn,
Calif .)- Five teen-agers were
charged with assaulting anoth- :
er, including ho!ding © him ~
down and pricking an elabo-
raté tattoo: into” his:/arm |
(Waldorf,. Md.). A coroner
changed a cause of death from .
traffic accident to murder after:
finding “a bullet. ‘in’ the
deceased’s* skull;’ but‘' later -
learned. the :woman-had been.
shot in 1978 and just never

‘bothered to have ‘the’ bullet

removed (Houston).

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