£
£

there “pe a “result of ing fires.
and were _responsible. for ~
ee $229, 000 property 7

“Most serious of these “was.

the: fire. which. com pletely- -

joined’ the... District’s “own.
investigation staff in every:
case and “were unrelentless

‘arrests | were, “made,
cording to: "fire chief Bob
’MeDonald in his. annual

SUNDAY

Sunny with a | few
cloudy periods. Westerly
winds 15-25 knots,
abating. High around 10.

’ Point Atkinson tides:
‘lows 0220 hrs and 1430
“brs; highs 0750 hrs and
2140 hrs.

MONDAY OUTLOOK

NE MR iw,

Little change.

Point Atkinson tides:
lows 0315 brs and 1525
hrs; highs 0820 hrs and
2245 hrs.

SHOWING AMAZING CONTROL, this young s teboarder docs his thing at Westlynn Mall last Wednesday as the
Canadian Amateur Skateboard Champlonship tour delighted the shopping crowd. (Ellsworth Dickson photo)

Lions Gate Hospital
( Chairman.

vices; in:
apeegars

_ present
financial

he says. ‘We have never laid
off ‘staff. You: don’t run,a
larger’ hospital and lose
staff.

Funding. is essential but
it’s not going to be the tail
wagging the dog.

Fellis regrets. that vice-
chairman ‘of. the board
Alderman’ Don McAlister
resigned last week over what
he “calls the Soored govern-
ments’s ‘‘penny pinching’’
financial handouts to Lions
Gate but. comments:

"We need responsible
people with objectives more
now than at any other time

and it is not the time to
resign’
‘*Mr. McAlister has

resigned so he doesn't speak
for the hospital;’’says Fellis,
although he concedes: ‘But
what he is saying = is
essentially correct."’

He agrees the $700,000
deficit facing Lions Gate at
the close of the fiscal year
that ended March 31 is of
concern. -

But with various members
of the B.C. health association
meeting the health minister
in Delta last Friday about the
very problem of funding he
feels, Fellis has expressed
confidence that, Victorla will
ball out Lions Gate,

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ivan not lay off staff,’"

ated