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THE North Vancouver . recreation commission is offering a number of orga- nized activities for the out- door enthusiast in us all. “Bears In Our Backyard” is one in a series of wildlife workshops presented by the _ Northwest Wildlife Preservation Society on Wednesday, Jan. 22 at 7 p.m. -at the Lonsdale recreation centre. The workshop takes a brief look at the eight species worldwide and then concen- trates on B.C.’s black bear and grizzly bear. Seating is limited so please preregister by calling 987-PLAY (7529). If getting out into the out- doors is more to your liking, there’s also the Rafting With

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Raptors day-trips runni Sundays from Jan. 19, Feb in Brackendale, B.C.

Bring your adventurous spirit and witness the world famous Brackendale _ bald eagle population. Your River Quest guide will interpret the rich natural and human histo- ry of the area.

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When in Venice...

A recent story in London's Sunday Times — described Venice, Italy, as a new trendy site for unhappy Europeans’ and = Aniericans’ — suicides, inspired by the mavie Death in Venice.

About 50 people attempt- ed suicide in the past year; all but a half-dozen were unsuc- cessful, usually because the canals into which they leap are deceptively shallow.

And the San Francisco Examiner reports that 11 people in the previous 18 months had rented handguns at local gun ranges and killed themselves on the premises.

Rodney L. Turner, 55, called his Kansas City office on Oct. 2 and said he would- n’t make it to work that day as a result of his 2 a.m. arrest for DUI that resulted in his detention until 5 a.m.

Turner, a lawyer, is a part- time municipal judge and on Oct. 2 had been scheduled to hear a full day’s docket of DUI cases.

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Goderich, Ontario — Roy T. Moore was convicted of exposing himself while seated in his car at a gas station despite his explanation that what a witness saw was actual-

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from a bag he was holding in his jap.

The judge refused to admit the cookie as evidence but did allow Moore's lawyer

to wield a tape measure to Mustrate to the jury the size of the alleged cockie.

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Philippines army logistics officer Brig. G Rolando Espejo told a senate hearing in’ Manila that the 4,500 weapons captured in coups against then-President Corazon Aquino have been stolen from two armories and can never be recovered because all documents rete ring to them are missir

The general repor' documents were all eaten by termites.

In the Tasmanian Supreme Court, Martin Bryant pleaded guilty to the April murders of 35 people at a tourist attrac- tion in Port Arthur, Australia, but he couldn’t stop laugh- ing.

Wrote the — Associated Press, “Bryant laughed so much he had trouble saying the word ‘guilty’ and had to be hushed by his own lawyer.”

And convicted — child molester Francis Robinson, 76, ata recent bail hearing on a charge of sexual abuse of an infant in Elinois, had to be admonished by the judge because he chuckled while prosecutors described how Robinson allegedly fondled the girl.

According to a report in the Wilmington Morning Star, a dog was brichy, though improperly, admitted tos the ~— local Kenan Auditorium with its owner to take in a performance of the opera The Barber of Seville. (The owner took the dog away after it started to bark.)

Manager Don Hawiey said one of his staff members had allowed the woman to bring the dog in after she said she was hearing-impaired and that the dog was a “hearing- ear dag.”

In retrospect, said Hawley, “That was silly.”

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