- -YOUR COMMUNITY ‘NEWSPAPER SINCE 1969 June 26, 1987) News 985-2131 ihe summer. after’10 months of d a otorists: are cautioned to pay. ir > Classified 986-62 Distribution 986-1337 84 papes 25¢ ‘Ridgeway School to embrace School. is.out for the summer: and | attention ‘to ‘children .on or near North Shore J pa Sere AISA pee SE ES! bd Folkfest. 1: . gears UP Hatchery gets overhaul: 3 AND WEST WAP GH | FOR THE second year running, pro-choice candidates have swept the four available seats in the annual Lions Gate Hospital board elections. “ v's wonderful, we are so relieved,"" outgoing LGH_ board chairman Hilary Clark said Thursday. ‘‘The ramifications were so ghastly if the vote had gone the other way.”” In the biggest voter turnout in the history of the LGH board elec- tions Wednesday night, 3,193 North and West Vancouver Hospi- tal Society (NWVHS) members elected candidates endorsed by the board in the two available North Vancouver City seats and one board-endorsed candidate each in the available North Vancouver District and West Vancouver District seats. The winning vote margin was approximately 300 for cach can- didate. Board members supporting pro-choice philosophies now hold eight of the 12 elected board seats. The other four seats are held by pro-life supporters, all of whom were elected in 1985. Topping the poll was lawyer Pat Williams, 37, who received 1,738 votes, 289 more than Cieoffrey Still, 61, his North Shore Pro Life Society (NSPLS)-endorsed oppo- nent in West Vancouver, Vicki O’Brien, 36, wen the North Vancouver District seat with 1,731. Her NSPLS opponent John O'Connor, 42, received | 444. The North Vancouver City seats were taken by investment dealer and former North Vancouver City alderman Rod Clark, 34. with 1,70) votes, who was returaed for his second term, and 39-year-old nurse Patricia Pigotr, who garnered $.705 votes, Clark was also elected to be the new board vice-chairman, while fermer vice- ehairman Jim) Warne was elected as the new board chairman. NSPLS-endorsed candidates John McLaughlin, a 38-year-old business manager, and math teacher Rick Murrell, 51, received 1,420 and 1,391 votes respectively. In all, 3,193 ballots were cast from a NWVHS membership of 4,728. Last year, 2,107 of the 3,578 eligible NWVHS voters elected four Pro-LGH candidates. LGH board members serve three-year terms and can serve a maximum of three consecutive terms. But NSPLS president Ross Labrie said he was encouraged by the 500-vote increase won by NSPLS candidates this year over last. “We look at the election as a useful exercise in airing the (abor- ion) issue,"’ Labrie said. ‘‘The publicity heightens community awareness, and has had the effect of reducing the abortion rate (at LGH).”’ But Hilary Clark, who is serving her third and last board term, said the decrease in the LGH abortion rate, which has dropped from 50 abortions per 100 live births in 1982 to 34 per 100 live births in 1986, resulted from such factors as a general rise in conservative at- titudes, shifting age demographics and the fear of AIDS. She added that she was especial- iy concerned prior to the election that a pro-life sweep in Wednes- day's election would have adverse- Iso affected the search for a teplacement for LGH presidens John Borthwick, who has an- nounced he will retire in September.