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A true: green thumb, Ann
Pentland has lived on the
North Shore for 20 years. A.
ardener by profession, she
is algo a founding member of
Friends: of Park and Tilford
’ Gardens and a member of the
Lynn Vatiey Garden Club and
the Aipine Garden Club.

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drinking: drivers:

THE following people’
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ing nest driving related
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Phillip Lorne Davey, 4

lorth’: Vancouver, .was fined .

$600 and. had: his © driver’s
licence. suspended © for 12

months after he pleaded guilty.

id driving,

"months after he pleaded guilty

to 0 impaired driving.
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Peter Frederick Buckman;
66, of West Vancouver, was
fined $600. and had his dri-
ver’s licence suspended for 12

“S months: afier he was found

guilty of having 2 blood alco-
hol level ‘greater than .08.

~ Barry Eugene Brown, 47,
of North: Vancouver, ..was

jailed’ ‘one day and had his dri-.
ver’s licence suspended for 24 -
months after he pleaded guilty’
to .having a) blood alcoho!

level greater. than .08.

THE mentally retarded Felipe
Rodriguez, spent 13 months
in. jail in Swisher County,
Texas (near Amarillo), after
being accused of a minor
theft, largely because his
court-appointed defence
attorney forgot about him
until a Dallas Morning News
reporter pestered her about
the status) of the
(Rodriguez was released in
August.)

And a June New York
Times report’ on veteran
court-appointed defence
lawyer Ronald G. Mock

_ chronicled his career-long,

mediocre representation of a
series of now-executed men,
including June executee Gary
Graham, who was convicted
based on one flecting, night-
time eyewitness identification,
which Mock neither chal-
lenged nor seriously investi-

gated.
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In’ Their Own Words:
Grandmother. Karren. Kinsel,
tead of the office that regu-
I:tes content on vanity licence
plates in INinois (“WORK-
SUX?” rejected; “BI DAD E”

approved), explaining to a

Chicago Tribune reporter in
July what qualifies her to rule
on. whether certain applica-
tions are in poor taste: “You
take some people, they just
don’t have a dirty mind. Some
of my staff doesn’t. But I do,
kind of.” :
Qo00

Also, in the last month: An
IRS advisory opinion declared
that the parents of a still-kid-
napped child must stop taking
the dependent’s exemption
while the child: is missing.

Scientists in India discovered a

new chili, whose burn wors-
ens with water and which is

50% hotter than the previous
world’s-hottest chili. A robber”

pistol-whipped a pizza deliv-
erer, causing the gun to’ dis-
charge and fire a fatal

the robber’s 17-year-old part-
ner er (Nashville).

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