4- Friday, June 5, 1987 - North Shore News

Bob Hunter

AS WE waited to see
which day the general
strike would be called for,
there was considerable
trepidation in the Hunter
family.

My three-year-old daughter
was scheduled for dental surgery
on Tuesday and my pregnant
daughter-in-law’s due date was
set for the weekend before.
Great.

The situation with the little
girl, Emily, was the more
nerve-wracking, since we were
pretty sure nobody was going to

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get in the way of an oncoming
baby.

These are the sort of situations
where you find out about the real
quality of existence in modern
British Columbia.

First, the moment we realized
there was a spot that wouldn’t go
away on Emily’s tooth, we took
her to a dentist who said it was
too bad, but there was nothing to
be done except apply some kind
of dental paste every night and
hope that it didn’t get worse.

- Several of the front teeth were
doomed due to bottle decay, the
dentist said. They’d break and

Vian found dead

From pege 1
groggy, I couldn’t really unders-
tand her. It sounded like she was
in agonizing pain when she called
me,

CAPILANO MOTOR Inn night
clerk: Andrew Moore...found
bodies.

Moore said he went to the room
and knocked on the door. ‘‘She
said, ‘Help. Help me. Help me.’”

Moore used his passkey to open

the door, but could only open it
about four inches because the safe-
ty chain was on the hook. “‘I saw a
white male lying face down on the
bed and a woman face up with
blood all over her chest. They were
both naked. There was blood all
over the bed and everywhere. The
man wasn’t moving. There was a
gun involved, but I didn’t see it,”
he said.

Although suites 255 and 253, on
either side of the scene, and suite
261, above the murder attempt/
suicide, were registered as oc-
cupied, Moore said both he and
the clerk preceeding his shift had
received no complaints from guests
during the course of the evening.

A woman occupying suite 253
said Thursday afternoon that she
had been out during the evening
and did not return to the motel un-
til2 a.m.

The police investigation is con-
tinuing. ! .

On the North Shore since 1955.

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she’d Jook like a minor werewolf
until her adult teeth grew in.

We lost several weeks before
beginning to doubt the doctor's
wisdom and took Emily to a
specialist.

In horror, he explained that
unless you cap the ruined teeth
real quick, their decay will affect
the adult teeth underneath. Not a
moment to spare!

Okay. But given the over-
crowding in B.C.’s operating
rooms, the specialist wouldn't be
able to get her booked for oral
surgery for a month, even though
he would be listing her as a ‘‘crit-
ical’’ patient.

Trying not to flip out, we
counted the days until our
daughter could be admitted. The
teeth in question were crumbling
before our eyes, already beginn-
ing to interfere with her progress
in learning to talk.

As fate would have it, a few
days before she was to go in, one
of the little boys at day care came
down with chicken pox. Of
course, the hospital wouldn't

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take her for fear of infecting
dangerously ill children.

Emily then got chicken pox.
The specialist rescheduled her for
a month later.

Had the B.C. Fed decided to
call its general strike on Tuesday,
instead of Monday, Emily, a crit-
ical patient, would have had to
be rescheduled for another
month. I wonder how many
others that happened to.

As for my daughter-in-law,
well, obviously a hospital runn-
ing on an emergency basis only is
a badly weakened support system
for the delivery of my grand-
child.

Naturally, Graraps has got his
fingers crossed that the blessed
event waits until big labor and
big Bill Vander Zalm have crun-
ched their way clumsily through
the current round of Sumo
wrestling, which is what labor
relations in B.C. amount to.

And meanwhile, as everybody
knows, the gnomes of Zurich,
Tokyo and New York take notes.

1 doubt that any big investors,
anywhere, suddenly decide: ‘‘By
golly, let’s plunk a huge wad of
capital into that province on the
West Coast of Canada, such a
neat, stable-looking place.’’

Stability equates with efficien-
cy, which equates with produc-
tivity in the minds of multi-na-
tionals and sundry megabuck
players.

If Vander Zalm’s real hope
was to make B.C. look good to
investors, he has bungled the task
thoroughly.

But if labor thinks it has won
any friends by wielding the big
stick, forget it. Had a little girl in
my family lost her teeth over this,
or if anything goes wrong so far
as the much, much bigger girl is
concerned, there would be deep,
abiding bitterness.

I’m getting to be a great
believer in the principle of ‘if
it's not broke, don’t fix it.’? I
wish Vander Zalm was.

This is a classic case of the fix-
ers mucking things up.

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