NEWS phote Cindy Goodman NOEC oo... ccssosessersoneeoee AUTON ee Food...............sushi, everything Activities......swinening, skling, volleyball, rollerblading Travelogve......................EUrope Future.....modelling, lifeguarding Treaty session set THE North Vancouver rid- Under the treaty, Nisga’a ing of the Liberal Party of Canada hosts 3 meeting, on the Nisga’a Treaty Dec. 1. A panel discussion will include participation by feder- al creaty negotiator Tom Malloy, Michelle Dimock of the First Nations Summit and journaiist Burke Lewis. lands will total approximately 2,000 sy/km, which is about 500 times the size of Stanley Park or the equivalent of approximately 245 acres for each of the 2,000 on-reserve Nisga’a. The meeting is set to begin at 8 p.m. in the Tamarack TILE Baltimore Sun report ed recent that tor a T2 month peried in 1e9e 1498, the “special educa ten” attics ctor students with parncular learning dit ficulties) of the city school system gave assay holiday cruises and electronic appli ances to 24000 students as comolition prizes for tke systent’s fathure co educate them. Some of the students are functionally ihiterate, bur nearly 150) received prize certificates worth at feast $5,000, with three students getting $30,000 worth, Some students requested equivalent value in) job- training, but were turned down in favour of TV sets, stereos and fax machines (and computers that they did not know haw to use). According to a recent Times of London, 45 people (celebrities and prominent executives) have had low- power microchips surgically intplanted in their bodies in order to make it easier for police to track them) by global satellite in the event they are kidnapped. The Sky-Eye chip, made by the Gen-Etics company, consists of organic and svn- thetic fibers that are pow- ered by the body's own neu- rophysiological energy. A 28-year-old woman in Winnipeg, Manitoba, was shot to death in August, and a 36-year-old man was shot (but survived ) near Williamsburg, Ky., in July, after arguments Over ani- mals. The Winnipeg woman’s cat apparently had defecated one time too many ina neighbour's sand- box, and the Kentucky vie- tim had purchased a fight- ing chicken from a third man when that man’s alleged partner showed up with a gun to assert thar the sale should: not have bees made without his permis- sIOn. A ‘Feanessce appeals court rejected a woman's challenge to a child custody ruling, that she said endan- gers her }2-vear-old son. Wrote the court, “Record does not support finding that unsupervised visitation with husband puts child in danger. (There is not one whisper of anything improper in (the father-son) relationship,” the judges reassured her, “except for ‘butt-facing’ incidents (one participant is held down and another participant pulls dewn his pants and squats dewn with his bare boitom on other's face).” Ninth grader Jamie Schoonover was suspended fora day from Southwestern High in Baltimore when a classmate said Schoonover hesxed her. Schoonover had marked classmate’s name on a wall, and since Schoonover dresses witch- like, the classmate became hysterical that) somcihing very bad was about to hap- pen to her, Schoonover’s parent, Colleen Harper, said not to threugh the Friday. November 27, 1998 — North Shore News - 114 Vaiuabie lessen for Students worn. that her daugiter Was tao ven TO Rey eftes tinch, Hfarper onl recent became Schoenover’s mom, after hrormane treatments: previously, she was Schoonover’s father. eo ® Phe Orb Lord Hardwicke joseph Philhp Sebastian Yorke t was) sus pended by Britain's: House of Lords atter it was report ed thar he tried to. sell COCAPRE to at Hewspaper reporter. Several days betore cat, Lord Dunleath reported in a floor speech in the House that he had discovered pho- tos of naked voung mien on the Lords’ Web site and that he wasn’t sure what to do about it. eee County Kirk Albuquerque assessor David Anderson recently told reporters thar he would serve out his 1998) term rather than resign. Anderson had just been arrested for roughing, up his girlfriend, the sixth comes- tic-abuse charge _ filed against him since 1992. Toledo, Ohio — Roger McCown, 20, was arrested recently mishaps during two rob- beries. after a series of a Comvciienee store, acanding tie pote. MeCown tned io ent the power cord to disable the cash register, onty ro recene anasty clectrteal shock. Phen, atier asking tora han te put ithe money i, he became confused when the clerk asked, “Paper or plas tel” He alse lett his Knite behind when he thed. MeCown was captured rl hours fater when, police said, he robbed a pizza shop, but apparenth his getaway driver was late, and police tound Meow Wailing On 2 strect corner, The Washington Post reported last month that D.C. city council candidate Mark Thompson was serv: ing two years” probation tor domestic assault, having been accused by his wife in 1996 court papers of beat- ing her several dozen times during her 1992 pregnancy and bloodving her lip three weeks after he attended the 1996 Million Man March, which was aimed in part at reducing domestic violence. 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