NEWS photo Mike Wakefield

FOOTBALL enthusiast and
North Van resident Charlie
McMaster volunteers about 20

hours a week with the Gordon:

Sturtridge Football. League.
Charlie, who works full-time as
a landscape technician, runs
the league’s concession, sells
T-shirts, helps coach a peewee
team and is one of the orga-
nizers of this year’s banquet.

Do you know a Silent Hero?

Send your aominations to Terry Peters, North Shore News,
‘1139 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver, B.C., V7M 2H4; or by
:. e-mail to <tpeters@nsnews.com>.
"Include your name and phone number; the name and phone
‘number of your nominee; and your reason for nominating the
Silent Hero.

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IN November, U.S. marshals
in) Detroit confiscated the
belongings of Marie Antoinette
Jackson- Randolph, a former
high-society, day-care chain
owner, who is now in prison
for scamming the government
out of $13.5 million in meal
money for underprivileged
children she allegedly fed at her
centres, Among her
100 pieces of Ba
Waterford and Lalique crystal,
911 purses, 606 pairs of shoes,
165 pairs of boots, a roomful
(floor to ceiling) of ‘costume
jewelry, and various fur and
skin garments (leopard, coyote,
mink, fox, sable, chinchilla,
snake, lynx, rabbit, lamb,
beaver, wease} and raccoon, in
a vanity of colours). (Said the
owner of the company hired to
sell the furs: “I don‘: know
whether she hated animals or
loved them. [t's hard to tell.”)
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Recurring Themes: In
1990, News of the Weird
reported on a man playfully
testing a bulletproof vest by
having a friend stab him with a
knife, which was not supposed
to penetrate the lining but did
(sending him to the hospital).
In October 2000, a 20-
year-old man in Swan River,
Manitoba, tested his bullet:
proof vest by having his
roommate shoot him. The vest
stopped the first shot (by a
.22-valibre_ rifle), bur even
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