16 — Friday, December 22, 1995 -- North Shore News

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in short

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THE NORTH Shore _ desper-
ately needs more soccer fields,
according to the president of
the North Shore Girls Soccer
Club.

NOTH VANCOUVER
CITY COUNCIL
By Bob Mackin

Les Sinnott appeared before
North Vancouver City council
Monday to plead his case. He said
he was advised by the city engineer
to approach the Recreation
Advisery Committee, which already
knew of his concerns.

“We're dealing with a situation
where we're going to have to tum
the young people away,” Sinnott
said, “The alternatives will be going
to parking lots, 7-Eleven. We need
to keep the youth active.”

Sinnott said there are more than
7,000 girls playing organized soccer
on the North Shore, a number which
has grown by 20% a year.

He said his group is willing to
offer some innovative solutions of
its own to help create new fields,
and that soccer association members
may be willing to help maintain and
operate fields in conjunction with
civic workers. As a last resort, user
fees may be acceptable if there is a
demonstrable increase in the quanti-
ty and quality of fields. Right now,
many school fields are unacceptable
because of poor maintenance.

“User fees are coming, we accept
that, as long as they’re not unrea-
sonable. We don’t want to wind up
with huge burdens.”

Moving tribute

THE FOLLOWING special
“thank-you” appeared in a recent
edition of England’s Jersey
Evening Post from the secretary of
the Jersey Ostomy Society (JOS):
“On behalf of the JOS, I would like
to congratulate all those involved
with the Bowels Open Day recent-
ly held in the Endoscopy Unit at
General Hospital.”

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Among recent crime targets: A
small amount of cash was taken
during a break-in at the local
CrimeStoppers civic group's office
in St. John’s, Newfoundland.

And earlier this year, one of the
accountants employed by the
Scotland Yard detective organiza-
tion in London was accused of
embezzling about $8 million over
an eight-year period from an
undercover operations fund.

Renton, Washington — A 28-
year-old man was arraigned in
September for unlawfully impris-
oning his two sons, ages seven and
eight, inside their expensively fur-
nished, immaculate apartment
while he was at work.

According to a witness, every-
thing in the home was meticulous-
ly kept up, “like a showroom”; all
cabinets and the canisters inside
them were labeled as to contents
and the cabinets padlocked; and
the kids were subject to a beating
if the father found anything amiss.

(When a police officer who res-
cued the boys tracked tiny pieces

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boys immediately got on the floor,
picked up each speck, and
smoothed out the carpet.)

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A not-so-funny thing happened
on the way to the supermarket...

Among recent highway truck
spills: 20 tons of heads of lettuce
near Fickle, Indiana, in November,
and 18 tons more along the Ventura
Freeway in Sherman Oaks,
California, two days later; 3,000
live chickens on the Washington,
D.C., Beltway in August and 20
tons of turkey drumsticks near
Muncie, Indiana, the week before
Thanksgiving; seven tons of lob-
sters on a road near Island Falls,

Maine, in August; and several bar-
rels of cow hides, intestines and
excrement near Rockport, Maine,
in October.

New Canaan, Connecticut — In
September, according to police,
someone removed the tires from a
car parked at a commuter train sta-
tion, stole the brakes, and put the
tires back on.

And in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee,
Shirley and Rick Wheeler recently
reported their driveway missing;
thieves had removed ail the gravel
and plowed the ground beneath it.

A management course at an
Idaho corporation on how to deal
with absenteeism in the workplace
had to be cancelled carlier this
month because nobody showed up
for it.

An organizer said: “It looks like
the problem is more serious than

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