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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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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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