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RIDDLE the terrier needs a home for the Holidays, but after almost two months in the District of North Vancouver's animal shelter, the dog's keepers worry it may be out of luck.

A Dec. 14 story headlined West Van Utilities To Jump $123 in 2012 incorrectly stated that the district will not collect enough money to maintain existing water infrastructure through utility fees until 2060. The correct date is 2016.

POLICE are recommending charges against two more people from North Vancouver for taking part in the Stanley Cup hockey riot in June.

QUESTION Thank you very much for your dedication to the North Shore bi-monthy columns. I look forward to reading each one, and find great relief in the fact that others have the same questions and issues that I have.

"I have always thought of Christmas time . . . as a good time: a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely. . . .

Class-action lawsuits against several airlines launched by North Vancouver law firm Poyner Baxter this year likely wont be affected by recently-announced changes to the way airlines are allowed to advertise their fares.

North Vancouver Mounties have circulated a photo of a man they say tried to rob a taxi driver at knifepoint. The cabbie picked the suspect up on Westview Drive at about 3:15 a.m. Oct. 15, according to investigators.

Two would-be Santas are on their role models naughty list this week after they reportedly attacked a man outside North Vancouvers Rusty Gull pub.

IT turns out the North Shore News was wrong when we reported no one was hurt by an ammonia leak at the North Shore Winter Club. In fact, North Shore icon and Olympic silver medal winner Karen Magnussen was sent to hospital following the Nov. 28 leak.