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Rec commission
offers workshops

THE North Vancouver
. recreation commission is
offering a number of orga-
nized activities for the out-
door enthusiast in us all.
“Bears In Our Backyard”
is one in a series of wildlife
workshops presented by the
_ Northwest Wildlife
Preservation Society on
Wednesday, Jan. 22 at 7 p.m.
-at the Lonsdale recreation
centre. The workshop takes a
brief look at the eight species
worldwide and then concen-
trates on B.C.’s black bear
and grizzly bear. Seating is
limited so please preregister
by calling 987-PLAY (7529).
If getting out into the out-
doors is more to your liking,
there’s also the Rafting With

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Raptors day-trips runni
Sundays from Jan. 19, Feb
in Brackendale, B.C.

Bring your adventurous
spirit and witness the world
famous Brackendale _ bald
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When in Venice...

A recent story in London's
Sunday Times — described
Venice, Italy, as a new trendy
site for unhappy Europeans’
and = Aniericans’ — suicides,
inspired by the mavie Death
in Venice.

About 50 people attempt-
ed suicide in the past year; all
but a half-dozen were unsuc-
cessful, usually because the
canals into which they leap
are deceptively shallow.

And the San Francisco
Examiner reports that 11
people in the previous 18
months had rented handguns
at local gun ranges and killed
themselves on the premises.

Rodney L. Turner, 55,
called his Kansas City office
on Oct. 2 and said he would-
n’t make it to work that day
as a result of his 2 a.m. arrest
for DUI that resulted in his
detention until 5 a.m.

Turner, a lawyer, is a part-
time municipal judge and on
Oct. 2 had been scheduled to
hear a full day’s docket of
DUI cases.

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Goderich, Ontario — Roy
T. Moore was convicted of
exposing himself while seated
in his car at a gas station
despite his explanation that
what a witness saw was actual-

ly only a half-eaten cookie -

from a bag he was holding in
his jap.

The judge refused to
admit the cookie as evidence
but did allow Moore's lawyer

to wield a tape measure to
Mustrate to the jury the size
of the alleged cockie.

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Philippines army logistics
officer Brig. G Rolando
Espejo told a senate hearing
in’ Manila that the 4,500
weapons captured in coups
against then-President
Corazon Aquino have been
stolen from two armories and
can never be recovered
because all documents rete
ring to them are missir

The general repor'
documents were all eaten by
termites.

In the Tasmanian Supreme
Court, Martin Bryant pleaded
guilty to the April murders of
35 people at a tourist attrac-
tion in Port Arthur, Australia,
but he couldn’t stop laugh-
ing.

Wrote the — Associated
Press, “Bryant laughed so
much he had trouble saying
the word ‘guilty’ and had to
be hushed by his own
lawyer.”

And convicted — child
molester Francis Robinson,
76, ata recent bail hearing on
a charge of sexual abuse of an
infant in Elinois, had to be
admonished by the judge
because he chuckled while
prosecutors described how
Robinson allegedly fondled
the girl.

According to a report in
the Wilmington Morning
Star, a dog was brichy,
though improperly, admitted
tos the ~— local Kenan
Auditorium with its owner to
take in a performance of the
opera The Barber of Seville.
(The owner took the dog
away after it started to bark.)

Manager Don Hawiey said
one of his staff members had
allowed the woman to bring
the dog in after she said she
was hearing-impaired and
that the dog was a “hearing-
ear dag.”

In retrospect, said Hawley,
“That was silly.”

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National Theater in Sofia.
Said Pencheva, “It is a pity
to focus everything on (bud-
get cuts) when there are such
beautiful breasts around.”

Actress Anva Pencheva has
announced 4 plan to divert
ker fellow Bulgarians’ atten-
Hon from grim economic
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