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Marijuana stores busted for selling to minors
PROSSER, Wash. (AP) - The Washington Liquor and Cannabis Board says a Prosser marijuana store was busted for selling to a minor just over a month after it opened.
The Tri-City Herald reports that the Bake Shop was among seven businesses in Yakima and the Tri-Cities that sold marijuana or alcohol to underage investigative aides working with officers during an October sting.
Seven others did not sell to minors.
Fines or temporary license suspensions can be issued to businesses that fail compliance checks.
This is the bear cub who inspired Winnie the Pooh
In 1914, a Canadian veterinarian on his way to treat World War I battlefield horses got off his train on a platform in White River, Ontario, and saw a bear cub. Actually, it was a bear cub tied to a string, held by a trapper. Against his better judgement, Lieutenant Harry Colebourn bought the bear for $20 and re-boarded the train.
He named the bear Winnie, after his native Winnipeg, and continued to the east coast of Canada, where he boarded a ship — with Winnie and his new regiment — to England.
The bear stayed with him, becoming a regiment mascot, through months of battlefield training in miserable weather. But when the time came to deploy to France, he realized that Winnie would not be safe. He brought her to the London Zoo, which agreed to care for Winnie for the duration of the war.
At the zoo, Winnie became friends with a little boy named Christopher Robin Milne, who named his teddy bear after Winnie. Christopher’s father, A. A. Milne, wrote the Winnie the Pooh books based on his son and his bear.
The story of the real Winnie is the subject of a new picture book called “Finding Winnie” by Lindsay Mattick, the great-granddaughter of Lieutenant Harry Colebourn.
Image courtesy of the Mattick family
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