30 — Sunday, October 13, 1996 - North Shore News

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NEWS OF THE
EIRD

IN May, Karen Watson, 20,
gave birth to a baby boy in
Albany, Ore., which she said
took her completely by sur-
prise, though she said she
had been suffering from anc-
mia, Of course, this was not
the first case of a woman

unexpectedly giving birth,
but Watsan is a) pre-med
biology major oat the
University of | California,
Davis, with plans to goointo
funily practice.

In May, Social Security
Commissioner Shirky Chater
Went against an agency policy
by reassigning a Social
Security number based ona
religious complaint. Eric and
Maria Bessem's toddler had
been assigned a number con-
taining 666 (the biblical
“mark of the beast") and
protested by refusing to
claim the child on income tax
forms.

The Lazarus Society in
Cologne, Germany, recently

released a “Contessian by
Computs” CD, with amenu
of th. 200) most-frequent
sins and a separate progran
to allow the pardcularh iniq
Witous to customize the sins
to which they will confess.
Appropriate penances are
prescribed. as well as adiok to
priests via the fnternet. The
German
tishops quickly denounced
the disk, And in June, Res.
David E. Courter of the
Independent Catholic
Church International told an
Associated Press reporter he
would soon celebrate Mass
on-line and allow people to
take communion via comput:
er by placing unleavened
bread in front of their moni-
tors.

Conference of

Ata preliminary hearing
in July in Guthrie, OkhL, a
woman said Jimmy Don
Branun assaulted ber in his
mobile home and then
changed into black panty
hose, a garter belt, women's
underpants, a training bra,
and white, high-heeled
shoes. The vietim ran out the
door and escaped when
Branun was not able to keep
up with her in his high heels.

oe.

Tom
Pittsburgh sold his 30 ham-
ing pigeons last year after an
injury left him unable to care
for them. Two were sold to
buyers in Amarillo and
Austin, Texas. In August, the
two escaped and flew back to
Murphy, making the 1,500
miles in about five days.

Murphy of

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"Brew’ is a male Benji-type terrier,
silver/beige, height 18 ins. Lost in
Edgemont Village Area, Friday, Sept. 27/96.
May be heading toward home in Seymour
River Area. Please help us find him.

We miss him very much!!
if you have any information, please call

phone 929-5094 or 980-2478

Thanks!

Beautiful Killer

As summer unfolds, a silent killer lurks
along roadsides, ditches, shorelines, and
meadows, shrouding the landscape in a
soft purple veil. This exotic beauty
slowly takes its toll on the environment
as it chokes the life out of wetlands

and waterways, destroying precious
wildlife habitat. The aggressive

invader is purple loosestrife.

Originally found in Europe and
Asia, purple loosestrife is a hardy
flowering plant that was acciden-
tally introduced to North America in
the 1800s. Because it has no natural
enemies, it is spreading at an alarming
fate throughout Canada.

Purple foosestrife has no nutritive
value tor wildlife. And its shoreline colonics,
which stand one to two metres tall, threaten
young watertowl by providing cover for preda-
tors on the prowl.

The Canadian Wildlife Federation has joined
the fight against this pesky weed, and you can help
too. Simply drop us a line, and we'll send you a brochure
entitled Beauegful Killer, in it you'll find a survey that we'd like
you to fill out and return to us. Information from the survey will
help us determine the location and severity of purple loosestrife
infestation, which in turn will help in the design of a Canada-
wide control program for the “purple plague.”

To obtain a copy of Beautifid Killer, write to

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