Angust 19, 1981

Lions Gate Hospital is missing more than 3,000

The hospital's board of
’ directors is afraid of a last
minute” rush to renew
memberships at the meeting,
leading to possible
organisational chaos.

Hospital Society President
Ken Bruce says com-
placency about the abortion

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Van, where three students have been erecting a sound barrier. The fir:
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hospital society members — and the hospital
wants to flush them out into the open before the
annual society meeting September 2.

issue may have led to the
large number of members
who haven't renewed their
membership.

Bruce says a recent News
story on the impossibility of
pro-life forces electing a
majority on the board may
have led some members to

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fears last-minute renewa

not bother renewing.

Only four directors will be
elected this year, and with
four pro-life directors
currently on the board; pro-
life forces can only end=up
with eight out of the 17
members at the mast.

In. a letter to the News,
Bruce says the LGH board of
directors “is deeply con-
cerned that your recent
headline ‘No Pro-Life
Takeover This Year’ has led

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the community to believe it
is not important, to attend
and vote at this year’s
Hospital Society annual
meeting on September 2.”

As of August 5, says
Bruce, 3,223 of the 1980
members hadn't renewed
their memberships. LGH is
gearing up for 5,000 people
at the meeting but only 2061
people are eligible to vote at
the moment.

If 3,000 people try to

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renew their memberships at
the meeting, warns Bruce,
it will place an impossible
burden on staff and is
bound to badly delay the
start of the meeting.”

The recent postal strike
may have been a factor in
the number of unrenewed
memberships, he says.

LGH staff are still
preparing for a large turnout
at the annual meeting. The

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The project was undertaken by Armco
Canada which hired the three students through Canada Manpower to
complete the three-week job.(Terry Peters photo)

COUNCIL ACTS
Partial
bail-out
will still
leave
recycler
losing

By PAT RICH

A temporary
agreement has been
reached to maintain a
newspaper recycling
service in North
Vancouver District.

But New Life President
Bruce Culver said the
company will still lose $140 a
day during the eight weeks
of the contract and he told
council he was only agreeing
to the deal because he is
confident the District will
review the matter and pay
what he says the service ts
worth.

For the past 17 months
New Life has been collecting
newspapers in the District
for recycling.

But the company now
faces bankruptcy, because of
a slump in the marke’ and
only a last minute dec sion
by Culver stopped che
recycling depot from clos: 1g
last week.

Culver had requested the
District to pay retroactively
for all work that has been

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