Recent Fila . . . .Avstia Powers:

the provincial court to face various

Judge. Reginald -

_ Grandison on March 3: ° * Wesley James Ardiel, 19, of was jailed seven days and fined 4.§300 after he plead: ed guilty to driving while pro- a ‘Cyprese Bowl Road

led guilty. to: rang a-

North

aby, he pleaded not ‘guilty ,to failing to comply

e Diebolt on Mat : May 10:

ith: 1 breathalyser :

demand, but instead pleaded guilty to the lesser or included offence of driving without due care and attention.

The ._ original “charge

_stemmed from a June 15, 1997

incident in West Vancouver. eee

Tarrik Sweiss, 25, of North Vancouver, received 12

-months’. probation aftcr he pleaded “guilty to “obtaining

money by false pretence at the

. Toronto: Dominion Bank in

Whistler between Oct 1,.1997 and Oct. 15, 1997. ~ Sweiss was Tequired to pay $2, 723.01 restitution, - Before Judge. William 2 and on

vid Wayne Bates, 46, of

’ Barnaby; and Stefan Wade

Isherwood, 30,- of ' North Vancouver, ‘pleaded not guilty to assault causing bodily harm ofa man on April 7, 1998 in North Vancouver District, but

- instead pleaded guilty to the

lesser. or included offence of

_assault.

Bates was, sentenced to 14

~—, days in jail.’

Isherwood. reccived three

years? probation... .

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Sunday, July 18, 1999 — North Shore News — 14

Jon't mess with the parrot

THE director of the world- wide charity Feed the Children, Steve Highfill, and several administrative empioy- ces were caught on tape in May by Nashville, Tenn., TV station WIVF tsking home boxes of goods that had been donated for impoverished kids.

Highfill. saw nothing wrong with that: “If that’s wrong, fine. 1 don’t think so, and I don’t think people are going to think so.”

Apparently, people did think so because the next day, Highfill resigned, and a w eck after,

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York County (Pa.} report- ed in June thar its Resource Recovery Center had found about $43,000 in carelessly discarded coins among the previous year’s trash.

Also in June, the Miami- Dade County (Fla.) govern- mene announced the demo- tion of an administrator in charge of prccessing parking meter collections.

The 21-year veteran hadn’t quite gotten around to

. depositing about $150,000 in

coins — collected over a four- year period — to the bank.

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Weird Animals

Three researchers at the University of Sheffield, England, reported in May that they had found a unique bird whose males not only experience orgasms during sex but are alse equipped with a penis-like protrusion (though it does not contain a sperm duct).

The male buffalo weaver bird uses the protrusion to stimulate the female so that when he expels sperm, the female will be better able to accommodate them.

Awesome Dogs:

Casey, a golden retriever in Raytown, Mo., made the

news in April by recovering

from three gunshot woun to the head.

And Suzzy, a German Shepherd in Granite City, Ii!., made a fine. recovery after surgery in March to remove $7.37 in coins she had swal- lowed.

Meanwhile with the help of tucal_ residents, a Husky called Whitey has eluded ani- mal control officers: in the town of Laconia, N.H. (popy- lation 15,000), for more than a year now, despite officers’ frequent sightings.

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to end traffic stop bribes, started offering free rice to ticketed motorists who come to the station te pay their cita-

tions.

The city of Graz, Austria, said it would start paying beggars abour $260 per month io stay out of sight.

A fire “extinguisher exploded from the heat of a fire in the home of a 70-year- old woman and spewed foam wildly, which doused the fire

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Also, in the Last Month... -_ About 1,000-Patistaiit” . An arson, syspecs-tred-co— CITCKEE fans angrily surround- be hospitali d alter he fell off cd the home ofa player on the the roof of a building while national team and threw rocks admiring the fire he allegedly at his windows two days after started (St. Louis). the team Jost the world tite to . Bangkok police, trying Australia.

Giuseppe Avarna, 83 (the Duke of Gualtieri), died in Messina, Sicily.

The Duke — achieved celebrity in the 1980s when he abandoned his family and took up with a young American female flight atten- dant. He then proceeded to irritate his wife for years by ringing a chapel bell in their village every time he and the young woman made love.

a burglarized house in May belonged to the thief, cour- tesy of the homeowner's par- rot, which attacked the perp and drove him out.

Said a police spokesman, “The bird was fairly annoyed.”

And ins an April Stroudsburg, Pa., trial of a man accused of burglary, prosecutors subpoenaed a par- rot which was abducted in the crime, hoping it could identi- fy the thief in court, but the bird was noncommitral.

400 _-lw-Februaryy Russian brain surgeon Svyatostay M “dvedev told reporters in St. Petersburg thar he had achieved an 80% success rate in curing alcohol addiction by removing a part of the brain that he says facilitates such addiction.

And in April, a University of Toronto researcher con- cluded that patients with brain damage to the right frontal lobe don’t get the punchlines of jokes, even though they laugh easily at simpler kinds of humour, such as Japstick.

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