NEWS photo Mike Wakefleid NORTH VANCOUVER tennis pro Grant Connell was the focus of media attention at the Vancouver Trade and Convention Centre on Monday after returning from Melbourne where he and Glenn Michibata became the first all-Canadian duo to reach a Grand Slam final. Australian victory whets Ky Connell’s A NEAR miss at the Australian Open doubles finals has only served to whet the appetite of North Vancouver's Grant Connell for the Davis Cu:s tournament against Brazil set to run Feb. 2 to 4 at the Vancouver Trade and Conven- tion Centre. “The minute f lost, my thoughts were on the Davis Cup,’’ Connell said Monday after arriving from Melbourne over the weekend. The left-handed 24-year-old and partner Glenn Michibata of Toronto will be playing Davis Cup doubles, but Canadian coach Pierre Lamarche won’t announce whether Connell will get the coveted singles berth until tomor- Tow. Connell and Michibata made history for Canadian tennis when they became the first all-Canadian team to reach a Grand Slam final after defeating the tournament’s No. 1 seeds, Jim Pugh and Rich Leach of the U.S., in the Australian Open semi-finals. Seeded 13th, Connell and Michibata were then soundly Business ..............33 Classified Ads..........41 Comies................39 Food... ......ccee eee ee Od Bob Hunter............ 4 lifestyles..............35 North Shore Now..... 7 Sports ................ 13 TV tistings............28 What's Geing On........38 WEATHE Wednesday, cloudy with snow. Thursday, periods of snow. Lows, -2°C, highs near 7. Second Class Registration Number 3885 Sy ELIZABETH COLLINGS News Reporter defeated by the unseeded South African team of Danie Visser and Pieter Aldridge, 6-4, 4-6, 6-1, 6-4. Connel! attributes the loss to the more aggressive play and the size | of the South Africans but said that making the finals in itself helps take pressure off him. “The obvicus thought,’’ he said at a press conference Monday, ‘“‘is to be disappointed, but after that you’ve just got te look back and say ‘How many opportunities do you have to play in a Grand Slam final?" Still in contention for singles, Connell said he’s ready after con- siderably improving his singles Grandparents From page 1 Vancouver Island, Delisle decided to give her daughter to them. “I knew that my job meant more to me than being on welfare,’’? she said. ‘“‘Not more than being a mother, but more than being on welfare. 1 couldn't go on welfare. I’ve seen a couple of single moms on welfare and they’re starving to death. They’ve learned to lie and they've learned to scam. I’ve always wanted to be more than that.”’ Rita, Dawn’s 46-year-old mother, lives in Royston and has a 13-year-old daughter at home. She had not planned for another baby in the house. “*Dawn_ tried,’’ she said. ‘I don’t feel she failed at all. She re- ally toughed it out. We were really appetite to win ranking last year when he upset Miloslay Mecir, Andres Gomez and Israel’s Amos Mansdorf, and even won a set over top-seeded Ivan Lendl at the Canadian Open. The medium fast. low bounce supreme court surface at the Van- couver Trade and Convention Centre, Connell said, will be to the Canadians’ advantage as will the home crowd. ‘‘Hopefully the crowd will be really loud,’’ he said.‘‘! don’t think Vancouver has seen com- petitive tennis like this in a long time.”’ Connell is also expecting to see colleagues from his tennis Alma Mater, the North Shore Winter Club, in the convention centre stands. “The North Shore Winter Club has been fantastic to me. It’s been my club since I was two years old. I know they've blocked off a sec- tion,’? Connell said, adding that Winter Club coach Dave Johnston remains a close friend and coach. take in child worried that both of them would get sick. Being a single mom is a hardship. If they decide to stay at home on welfare they starve. If you give your baby up, it’s bad as well. Babies do come.’ What do you do with them?”’ JOINT-CUSTODY Delisle and her parents have agreed to a joint-custody arrange- ment for her daughter. Said Delisle, ‘‘Passing a baby back and forth is not healthy for the child. You can't do that. It was the best thing for my daughter. I had te make that choice. A spokesman from the Ministry ‘of Social Services was unavailable to comment on the Delisle case to press time Tuesday. Owners’ name clarified (NA Jan. 24 story, the North Shore News incorrectly identified Jacobson, Macdonald & Co. as the owners of the Centennial Manor Apartments in North Vancouver. In fact, Jacobson, Macdonald & Co. acted as notaries public for the owners on the purchase of the property. The building is owned by 2620 Holdings Ltd. 3 - Wednesday, January 31, 1990 - North Shore News GVRD SEMINAR TOLD Aging population putting strain on health facilities MORE COMMUNITY-based health-care facilities must be found if the North Shore and the rest of the Lower Mainland is going to cope successfully with a predicted increase in the number of people who will require the services of the health-care industry in the future, a Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD) seminar on the subject was told Friday in North Vancouver. Mike Walker, GVRD manager of hospitals, housing and proper- ty, said it is becoming increasing- ly difficult for the regional district to secure provincial fund- ing for its health-care system. “The dollar goes on the table and it's my job to fight for as much of that dollar as possible for hospitals,’’ he said. ‘‘Costs are one of my major concerns.” He added that there has been a gradual shift away from hospitals acting as the main ‘‘delivery ser- vice’’ for the health-care system and added that a growing and ag- ing population is putting an in- creasing strain on that system. “The health-care delivery system will have to pay more at- tention to the aging issue,”’ Walker said. ‘‘We're living longer and we're taking our health nore seriously. But some predict by the turn of the cen- tury, unless we develop more programs to deal with the aging problem, every acute care bed will be taken up by someone 65 years or over."’ He added that the population of the regional district wil! in- crease by 13 per cent in the next 10 years, with North Vancouver's Population expected to increase by about 11 per cent. Walker said the debt-load of the Greater Vancouver Hospital! District (GVHD) is another prob- lem facing the regional district. In 1977, the GVHD had a cap- ital construction cost debt of just over $100 million. In 1989 that figure quadrupled to $400 million and is expected to almost double again to $700 million by 1993. Walker said more training fa- cilities will be needed for produc- ing more health-care profes- sionals and incentives need to be found to keep those people in the regional district. The North Shore’s chief medi- cal health officer, Dr. Brian O’Conner, said it is ‘‘terribly important’? to get the public in- volved in the health-care debate. “‘There’s an incredible oppor- tunity for us to educate the public to a health promotion issue,’’? he said. ‘‘We must relin- quish some control to the public. It’s important that we inform the public about what the health issues are.”” Dr. Nancy Hail, community health promotion director for North Shore Health, said the GVRD needs to do more ‘‘bot- tom-up”’ planning in order to get a view from the public about what they feel the real health issues are. She added that the regional district also needs to focus more By SURJ RATTAN on the issue of health maintenance. ‘*The focal point of the future is the community,’’ she said. “We need to give these changes in direction a long-term com- mitment.”’ Mary Segal, coordinator of the North Shore Health Planning Project, told the seminar that more attention must be paid by the regional district to accom- modate the needs of seniors, noting that the North Shore is “aging quickly.” “The North Shore is a big area,’’ Segal said. ‘‘We need to look at a variety of public transit. There needs to be care taken in the design of roads to make it easier for people to get around. Most of the intersection accidents (involve) seniors.”’ Dr. Hedy Fry, president elect of the B.C. Medical Association, said the most important thing that different GVRD municipalities can do in improv- ing the regional district’s hezJth- care system is to ‘‘work in teams’? and to educate the public on the issue. She said it was ‘‘sad’’ that there was no representation at the seminar from the native Indian community, adding that ‘the native population are the ones who will fall through the cracks’’ of the health-care system. North Vancouver City Mayor *Jack Loucks said the GYRD needs first to decide what it wants in a health-care system and then determine what the cost of that system will be. He also said more time should be spent on finding ways to keep trained health-care professionals in the regional district. “It’s a fact that we don’t have enough people trained (in health care), but that we’re also losing the number of people that we do have. That’s a problem and that must be changed,’’ Loucks told the News. He added that he thinks the GVRD is picking up ‘‘more than its fair share’’ of the cost of hos- pital funding. The North Vancouver seminar was the third in a series of six GVRD-sponsored seminars called Choosing Our Future. The semi- nars are aimed at rethinking the GVRD's Livable Region Strate- gy, which was established 15 years ago. The input gathered at the sem- inars will be used in a summary report. : NEWS photo Mike Wakelleld DR. WALTER Hardwick, chairman of the GVRD's health and aging seminar held Friday at the Lonsdale Quay Hotel, speaks to the 60 guests who attended the one-day forum on Friday.