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WEST VANCOUVER artist Colin Hempsall stands beside his peinting English Bay from
Cypress Creek during the recent opening of his one-man show, “Our Coast”, at the West
Vancouver Memorial library. Hempsall’s marine-inspired works are on display at the library

until March 26.

AS PART of a longstanding feud,
James Helton petitioned Sumter,
South Carolina city council recent-
ly to change the name of Goodson
Road, which runs by his property,
to Helton Road. ;

The government paved the road
10 years ago and named it for the
neighboring Goodson family after
asking residents what name they
preferred for the road.

Helton’s petition pointed out
that his family had lived ‘on the
road since 1907 (versus 1935 for
the Goodsons) and that on the day
of the name survey, the !'zhons
weren’t home.

Last September, St. Louis
police accused Joseph Monti, 87,
of shooting to death former mob
figure . Frank Parrino outside
Parrino’s tavern in July. :

According to police, the reason
Monti gave for the killing was that
Parrino beat Monti up once in the
mid-1960s when -Monti told
Parrino to leave his club because

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he was making too much noise.

In January, anesthesiologist
Channagirie Manjanatha. pleaded
guilty to criminal negligence in

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Regina for leaving the room for 15
minutes. The problem was that he
left during surgery to make a
phone call. As a result the ill-fated
patient was feft on an oxygen
machine unmonitored, which
resulied in brain damage to the
patient.

And in November, the North
Caroline Board of Medical
Examiners suspended neurosur-
geon Raymond Sattler for nine dif-
ferent incidents. These included
one in which he took a lunch break
in the middle of aneurysm surgery,
leaving the patient’s brain exposed
with no other physician in the
room.

Jack Wright of Kingston,
Ontario, the Guinness Bock record
holder for being the owner of the
most cats at one time (689), quoted
recently in the Toronto Star: “You
can visualize a hundred cats.
Beyond that, you can’. Two hun-
dred, five hundred, it all looks the
same.” ‘

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