32 — Sunday, September 21, 1997 —

inual ‘Apple awards
Wednesday at Cedardale

ds Mary Lewis of Hol
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- Drew:: Matheson

North

"tary ‘and Maggie ‘Park of

Windsor secondary.
'~ Special recognition awards

will ‘be presented to Alison

Dodd, who has a disability; asso-

_.dation founding members Dick

and Lorraine McCallum; Save-

‘en-Foods, Park and Tilford; Dr. :;

Brent ‘Brown, for community
contributions; NSAMH’s Moe
Flanagan; :. workshop _ workers
and Sheila
Weir;: and. Jim Warne and
Kendall Jessiman for their devel-

“opment of the North Vancouver

Schools Accessil

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THE New York Post reports
thar 580,000 prescriptions for
Prozac and similar anti-depres-
sants were written last year for
minors.

That number was achieved
despite a government restric-
tion that those drugs cannot be
marketed for children, but the
Food and Drug
Administration might soon lift
the ban.

In any event, Prozac’s
maker, Eli Lilly, has recently
introduced — peppermint-fla-
vored Prozac.

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Antwerp,
Belgium, held an open-house
day in May to promote their
trade and to persuade potential
customers that the town’s red-
light “Skippers’ Quarter” dis-
trict is safe.

Bands and acrobats per-
formed, coffee and sodas were
served, and -visitors werc
allowed inside to see for them-
selves whether the houses’

repute was ill or not.
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The Berkeley City Council
has announced a politically
inspired boycott that critics say

make it difficult to buy

» gasoline for municipally owned

cars on official business.

The new resolution pro-
hibits the city from doing busi-°
ness with firms that do business |

“in Nigeria {including Arco,

Unocal, .Texaco, Chevron,
Mobil and Shell). Exxon has
long been off-limits because
the ‘city
didn’t like its casual re onse to
the 1989 Exxon Vi dez oil

spill.

In New Orleans, Brent Q.
Smith, 46, an Internal Revenue -
Service agent, was officially
charged .with ‘taking bribes
from a tax-troubled business-"
man named Brent M. Smith.

And_ in’ Seattle, °
returned a first-degree m:
verdict . against —_ Darvel
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Maria DiGiulio became the

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When DiGiuko was booked
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“Bank robber,” she said.

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