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residents have turned out in
their thousands to vote for
hospital-endorsed can-
_ didates.
* Pro-Life was dealt another

‘blow in January with the

“resignation of one of its four

. remaining members on the

‘board - Norm Duce. Duce
~was replaced by West
Vancouver resident Fred
Russell, who backs the
‘hospital stand on abortion.

' LGH policy is to perform
‘abortions in cases approved

- by its abortion committee.

Of the 799 abortion ap-
plications received in 1981
and the 209 of the first
quarter of this year, not one
was refused.

Local Pro-Life supporters
maintain this is tantamount
to abortion on demand,
where abortion is so readily
available it has assumed the
funtion of birth control.

Of the three remaining
Pro-Life board members,
only George Carruthers and
Michacl Whelton are
seeking re-election.

Both have already refused
demands that they resign
from the current board as a
result of their initiating 2
court case against the
Hospital over its abortion
policy.

The action filed by them
in federal court alleges that
the hospital has broken the
law with almost every
abortion carried out there by
approving abortions on
health grounds not
recognized in the Criminal
Code of Canada - i.c. on
social and economic
grounds.

Carruthers is a lawyer
practicing civil litigation and
a North Vancouver resident
who has served on the
hospital’s building, finance
and bylaws committees.

Whelton is a West Van
resident and business
consultant and has been
chairman of the. hospital's
employee relationa com-
mittee for the past two ycars.

Also standing. on the Pro-
Life slate are Mra. Elena
Hall and Bill Burdett.

Hall, who describes
herself as “just a housewife,”

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is married to a lawyer and is
a mother and foster parent.
She has been an active
member of fund raising
committees for the Boat
People and a_ Christian

education instructor. She is.

an area coordinator for the
Kinsmen Mothers’ March on
Polio, and a Heart Fund
volunteer.

Burdett is a North Van-
couver resident and senior
vice-president of a home

ing firm.

Of the four candidates
chosen by the hospital
nominating committee, Fred
Russell is standing to retain
the seat he assumed in
January. He is a real estate
agent and development
consultant, as well as
chairman of West Van's
assessment court of revision.
Russell is also a former
commodore of West Van
Yacht Club.

Former North Vancouver
School Board Chairman Don
Burbidge, who is also a
leading member of North
Vancouver Voters’
Association (NoVVA), is
now vying for a seat on the
hospital board. A philosophy
instructor at Vancouver City
College, Burbidge has been a
North ‘ Vancouver resident
for 25 years and his two
daughters were born at Lions
Gate and at the old North
Vancouver Genera}
hospitals.

Also standing on behalf of
the hospital nominating
committee is Bill Crompton,
president of Lions Gate
Medical Research Foun-
dation. A North Van
resident for 25 years, he has
been active in the Lions Club
for 20 ycars and its president
for two terms.

Fourth candidate for the
hospital is former local MLA
David Brousson. Brousson, a
North Vancouver
professional cnginecr, was
North Van - Capilano MLA
from 1968 to 1973 and is
presently Dean of Con-
tinuing Education and In-
dustry Services at British

Columbia Institute of
Tec .
This year the format of the

annual mecting will be
rearranged so that people

Hospital nominations

CROMPTON

whose only interest is at-
tending to vote on _ the
abortion issue will be able to
vote and leave before the

‘ business of the meeting.

The meeting, to be held at
North Van _ Recreation
Centre, will open at 6:30
p.m. and immediately recess
for an hour, to allow those
who wish to vote and then
leave.

Lions Gate administrative
staff are still hopeful. the
hospital may eventually: be
able to have voting without

voters being required to .-

attend the annual meeting,
which usually means that at
least three locations have to
be rented and linked
together by closed circuit
televisions, merely to ac-
commodate all those tuming
out to have input in the
abortion issuc.

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(GVRD). .

At Lions Gate a total of
$175,818. was approved for
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