are destined to be another battle in the continuing war over
the hospital’s abortion policies.

Current LGH board chairman
“Hilary Clark said the public'should
realize. tuat-.the hospital”. board
faces a ‘majority takeover by North

: Shore Pro-Life (NSPL) candidates.

“Of the: 12%elected board’ members :

four - support - pro-life’: policies.
‘Clark said, with the four. available
“positions coming up for. election
June 25, NSPL would have.a.ma-
jority among the elected : board
membership if.
* nominees were to [ill those sea

‘. majority onthe: 17-member. board,

is a single-issue
“. group,:. alone’ to changing the:

abortion policies of the: hospital, ,
' Clark said, ‘‘and abortion is such

- small function’ of the hospital:and

their . slate’: of a
; secutively.*
While-not being an actual:voting: :

By TIMOTHY RENSHAW
: News Reporter _

government appointee:.and one
appointed: from ‘the 500-member:
LGH auxiliary.

Four, board seats come up for

3 - Wednesday, May 14, 1986 ~ North Shore News

BATTLE

Candidates for Lions Gate Hospital board elections

take sides on the controversial social issue
- THE ANNUAL Lions Gate Hospital (LGH) board elections

Membership is restricted to non-

. LGH employees.

election annually, this. year on. ~

June .25. Board members serve.
three-year terms and can serve.a
maximum of. three such terms con-

Nominees must be 19. or older
and.be members of the North and ,

- West - Vancouver Hospital Society °

ANWVHS), as must be anyone who

votes in'the election. .

Invaddition, nominees must live

the same municipality -as the!

board seat they are secking. Board «.
“members are volunteers. mo

wo boards seats’ to fill. The”

‘of: ‘North. Vancouver. and ‘the:
Vancouver... will

Deep’ Cove: -Yacht-Club: clubhouse. The. pomp and ‘cir-

LY

"Plans. ‘for
feiid Village... Neighbourhood
I 1. for

the ‘$10 over

“The size of ‘the’ project is.tot:
ly _ uncalled ©. for 1? “said. J

eis. ‘slated to open ‘
on a." 5.3-acre site.

LGH ‘BOARD ‘chairman Hiliary
-Clark...‘‘abortion is such a small
. function of:“the hospital and a

“mior: part of the administrative
. responsibilities ” of

the hospital
zs board,

-society - members : by May. 23, one
‘month prior to the ele: tion. on

“Application:

: membership" are
M

structure

_ -PUBLIC) PROPERTY

“The Teport said the best’ site for

- Thus far-there are seven declared’ ~

nominees. Four have’ been

_hominated by. the hospital board

and three have NSPL endorsation.:

Those nominated by the’ LGH
board include Sharon Larsen, past
president of the LGH auxiliary,
Silvia Simpson and Jim. Warne,
both running for board re-election

and Clark, who has been /board |.

chairman for the past two years.
Endorsed by the NSPL are
Virgil Kaulius, John O'Connor.
and James Ewart. -..
NSPL - president Ross Labrie
said Friday his organization will
announce. a fourth candidate
shortly. ©
He said that while the candidates
aré not NSPL. members, they share
the organization’s views. .
“They . are - free spirits, “but
believe, as do Pro-Life members,’
that the hospital should be giving
its time to the preservation of. life
at both ends of the spectrum.”
Labrie disagreed that the NSPL:

is a single-issue organization. and, .
emphasized that it has no intention.
‘the .. hospital's”
five-member therapeutic abortion :

of dismantling

committee. :
The NSPL,. he said, ° was « “Tot

: against abortion, but against. abor:,
. tion. on demand and, | would k

: needed. to protect 100 home ownei

in lower creck ¢ area.

‘sunny with ‘loudy ‘period. i

Labrie...the ; NSPL: has : no.  inten-
ton of dismantling: the: hospitals’

five-member therapeutle abortion

towards instituting’. or more
responsible policy. | to the taking of
human life.”’..:*
Hospital president | Jo
thwick ‘said LGH: board
sibilities.. range from
hospital policy. to deciding how its
budget will be. spent.
importantly, . he. said, :
was originally established to ensure:

: pei
dependent -on :the | provincial : “gov

ernment for its’ funding, Borthwi

community. i
: hospitals philoso; hy.

A few ‘showers Thursday. a

Setting.

But / more.
“the board: a

a a