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THE SEVEN CHALLENGERS for the North Shdre’s three
provincial seats will each be facing an uphill battle to
dislodge the three incumbent Social Credit MLAs in Wed-

nesday’s election.

West Vancouver-Howe Sound, a
former stronghold for the provin-
cial Liberals, has been held by the
Social Credit party since 1975.

From 1966 to 1972, Allan
Williams took three consecutive
elections for the Liberals before he
joined the Socreds in 1975 and
held the seat for that party in the
1979 provincial election.

Incumbent MLA John Reynolds
will be seeking his second term in
West Vancouver-Howe Sound in
Wednesday’s election.

The 44-year-old stock promoter
is considered a hard working and
astute party organizer with right
wing entrepreneurial philosophies.
After twice being elected as the
Burnaby-Richmond-Delta Prog-
ressive Conservative MP from
1972 to 1978, Reynolds anchored
an open-line radio program from
1978 to 1982.

He won the Social Credit
nomination in West Vancouver-
Howe Sound in 1983 and ran away
with the riding in the May election

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John Reynolds, Social Credit
with 61.4 per cent of the vote.

Reynolds, who is married and
has seven children, countered
charges from other candidates that
the riding has not had an effective
community voice, by pointing to
recent highway and community
improvement projects completed in
the riding.

Reynolds said that, in addition
to revitalization projects in Horse-
shoe Bay and Dundarave, $38 mil-
lion had been invested in a project
to widen the highway between
West Vancouver and Squamish
‘tand we will be spending another
$38 million in ’86-87.”’

He said one of his biggest coups
‘was helping to arrange a new $3.8
million transit centre for West
Vancouver that will be located in
North Vancouver.

Of his opponents, Reynolds
said, ‘‘Neither has any election ex-
perience.”

The NDP’s candidate in West
Vancouver-Howe Sound is David
Manning.

A 47-year-year old teacher at
Squamish’s Howe Sound second-
ary school, Manning is taking his
first swing at provincial politics.
He made an unsuccessful run for
Vancouver school board election in
the carly *70s on the COPE
(Committee of Progressive Elec-
tors) platform.

Manning, who has been active in
unions such as the BCGEU since
1964, is currently the bargaining
chairman for the Howe Sound
Teachers Association.

Education, unemployment and
health care are the major issues in
the election, according to Mann-
ing.

He added that the government
must be accountable and must
solve problems through cocpera-

By TIMOTHY RENSHAW
News Reporter

tion rather than confrontation.

Though the NDP’s West Van-
couver-Howe Sound candidate in
1983 garnered only 24.1 per cent of
the vote, Manning said his chances
are good.

Manning is married and has one
son.

West Vancouver-Howe Sound’s
Liberal candidate Edgar Carlin
took up the chase for political of-
fice soon after announcing his
retirement in August from the
West Vancouver Schoo! Board,
where he spent 12 years as superin-
tendent of schools.

Married with four children, the
51-year-old Carlin retired from the
board ‘‘because it was time for a

Edgar Carlin, Liberal
change.”’

Though the Liberals managed
only 6.9 per cent of the vote in the
1983 provincial election, Carlin
said the riding remains Liberal at
heart.

Carlin, who is the current head
of a consulting company, was
defeated in 1972 as the Liberal
candidate in the federal riding of
Surrey-White Rock.

He had been nominated by then
Liberal Bill Vander Zalm.

Carlin, who has worked at
various levels of government, said
that with the current polarization
of B.C. politics ‘tissues are not be-
ing discussed. There are two or
three things this province has to do
and one is to get back to a normal
political process. Stop the political
name-calling and debate policies.”

In North Vancouver-Capilano,
incumbent MLA Angus Ree will be
seeking his third term.

The 57-year-old former lawyer
first won the riding in 1979 with
55.7 per cent of the vote, He was
reelected in $983 with 62.1 per cent
of votes cast in the riding.

Ree, who is married with three
children, vows to represent indi-
vidual peor with an ‘‘open-door
policy.’’

He denies allegations by oppo-
nents that he has done nothing to
help secure such important pro-
jects as the Polar Class 8
icebreaker for shipyards in the

riding.

“It’s just not true. | brought the
subject up in a caucus meeting in
September in Prince George. I go
to the source that has influence. I
don’t just run around making
statements.””

In 1985, Ree announced a $30
million project to build overpasses
on the Upper Levels Highway at
Lonsdale Avenue and Westview
Drive.

With women accounting for 44
of the 237 provincial candidates,
North Vancouver-Capilano NDP
candidate Dr. Olga Kempo says
she will push hard to implement
her party’s Equality for Women
platform.

“Over the long haul, the NDP
party has always had progressive
policies for women,’’ Kempo said.
“We want to make sure that
women have proper access to
education and job opportunities
and earn equal pay for work of
equal value."*

Twenty-one of the NDP’s 57
candidates are women.

Since 1974, Kempo, who is
single and who declined to give her
age, has been a professor at
Capilano College. She was ac-
claimed as the North Vancouver-
Capilano candidate Oct. 4, 1985.
This will be her second attempt to
unseat Angus Ree.

In 1983, she won 32.5 per cent
of the vote in North Vancouver-
Capilano.

An NDP MLA was elected to
the riding in 1972 with 22.2 per
cent of the vote.

The Liberal candidate in North
Vancouver-Capilano was rushed
into the political void after Don
Kavanagh, the candidate originally
acclaimed to run in the riding, was
informed that he was not on the
voter’s list.

But in his first provincial politi-
cal campaign, Michael Downing
says he was ready when the oppor-
tunity was thrust into his lap.

“Really, I'd been thinking about
it for a long time, then this came
up. The circumstances were right.”’

Downing, 63, is married and has
two children.

The riding’s incumbent, Down-
ing said, has adopted a profile that
is far too low for the community,
“We just don’t hear that much
from him.”’

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Michael Karabelas, Liberal

Downing said education, the
local job situation and local social
services all need improvement.

The Liberals took 5.4 per cent of
the vote in the 1983 provincial
election.

Libertarian party candidate Bill
Tomlinson says he offers the only
real choice in North Vancouver-
Capilano.

The 52-year-old plumber ran
two years ago in the federal riding
of Capilano. He received 193
votes.

Libertarians, Tomlinson | said,
“believe that less government is
best government, and with three
other socialist parties running, |
am the only real alternative.’”

Minister of Energy, Mines and
Petroleum Resources Jack Davis
has won North Van-
couver-Seymour for the Social
Credit party since 1975, when he
took the riding with 54.4 per cent
of the vote.

In 1977, he was stripped of his
energy portfolio in Bill Bennett’s
cabinet over some questionable
expense accounting involving
airline tickets.

An engineer by profession,
Davis, 71, is a former Rhodes
Scholar and was the Liberal MP
for North Vancouver between 1962
and 1972.

Considered a maverick lone
wolf, Davis was an early supporter

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of Bill Vander Zalm in the
premier’s leadership campaign and
was rewarded for that support by
being appointed to his new port-
folio Aug. 14.

Davis has vowed to win North
Vancouver-Seymour with hard
work and a promise to knock on
more doors in the riding than any
other candidate,

David Schreck, NDP

Davis is married and has three
children. ;

He was recently awarded the
Association of Professional
Engineers of B.C.’s Community
Service Award.

Davis won his riding with 59.2
per cent of the vote in the 1983
election.

North Vancouver-Seymour NDP
candidate David Schreck conceded
that he is an underdog in the
riding, but feels he is far better
recognized by area residents now
than he was in 1983.

Schreck, 39, was acclaimed as
the riding’s NDP candidate Oct.
22, 1985 in his second campaign
for election in North Vancouver-
Seymour.

in 1983, he finished second to
Davis with 36.3 per cent of the
vote.

Schreck, who is married and has
no children, is the general manager
of the CU & C Health Services
Society.

A longtime NDP activist,
Schreck ci ls Jack Davis ‘‘divisive
and caustic. (With his new port-
folio) he is much more susceptible
to be held accountable for his ac-
tions and those of the government
and we intend to hold Mr. Davis
accountable.”’

Schreck said Davis has ‘‘flip-
flopped’? on such issues as the
W.A.C. Bennett Dam, which
Davis attacked in the early '70s as
a potential hazard to the environ-
ment, but which he recently said
would produce financial benefits
that would outweigh any = en-
vironmental damage.

Acclaimed as the North Van-
couver-Seymour Literal candidate,
Sept. 26, Michael Karabelas is in
maiden run for political office.

The 42-year-old Anglican
clergyman said he is neither im-
pressed with the riding’s incum-
bent nor the new premier.

“Education is in chaos,”
Karabelas said. ‘‘I have two boys
in the school system ana | am real-
ly concerned.”

Karabelas said tax money should
be spent on creating employment
through securing projects like the
Polar Class 8 icebreaker for North
Vancouver shipyards rather than
sinking money into such megapro-
jects as installing a $300 million
natural gas pipeline to Vancouver
Island,

in the 1983 election, the Liberals
won 2.8 per cent of the vote in
North Vancouver-Seymour,