42 — Sunday, February 28, 1993 — North Shore News

A.P.

McCredie

~ INQUIRING REPORTER

IF YOU get caught with your hand in a Blue Box
recycling bin in North Vancouver District, it’s going to
cost you $50. At the Monday, Feb. 8, district council
meeting, counciilors voted in favor of amending the
district’s Waste Removal Bylaw to make such ‘‘scaveng-
ing’”’ a ticketing offence. West Vancouver District cur-
rently has a similar bylaw on its books. North Van-

couver City does not. North Vancouver District Coun.
Joan Gadsby voted for the amendment partly because
she believed it was the district’s responsibility to protect
the Blue Box material under the terms of the district’s
contract with International Paper Industries Ltd., the
company responsible for collecting Blue Box material.

Should scavenging from Blue Boxes be illegal?

Bob Newton
Vancouver

I don’t think it should be |

iegal. If. someone can
make a few pennies by
taking some cans or bot-

Wayne Snow

North Vancouver

No. !f anyone wants to
go out and take materials
from recycling boxes, I
don't see any problems.

Bob Redford

’ North Vancouver

Of course not. We're
paying a company to
pick them up, so what’s
wrong with someone do-

Sanet Clark
Vancouver
I think making it illegal
is going a little too far. I
usually Icave my bottles
and cans scparate from

Mike Balneaves
North Vancouver :
I think making it illegal
is stupid. It’s going to be.
recycled: anyway, so
what's the problem?.. -

the rest’ so people can

ing it for free.
return them for money.

ules back. great. Either
way they're being recycl-
ed.

TO

The Provincial Government Ministry of Health has decided to close Shaughnessy Hospital in Vancouver
(The Vancouver Sun, Feb. 11, 1993). ;

This decision was made unilaterally and irresponsibly without consultation with the hospital administration, -
the physicians, the health care workers, the community leaders, or most importantly, with you, the patients.

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You know that Shaughnessy Hospital has provided quality health care services to the Vancouver community —— -
for decades but how do you quantify the intangibles, the friendly atmosphere, the warm. caring*--...”
environment? It has taken many years for the knowledgable, efficient health care team to evolve at
' Shaughnessy. It is not easily replaced overnight at another location.
We believe that this decision has too much impact on patient care to allow it to be made by politicians and
bureaucrats in Victoria without input from the health care users and providers of Shaughnessy Hc«.spital.

The government has just completed $13 million dollars in renovations at Shaughnessy including a new
Spinal Cord Unit, Intensive Care Unit, Emergency Department, Operating Rooms, and Women's Health
Centre. What happens to these? Where do the 100,000 outpatients who visit Shaughnessy clinics and the
15,000 who require surgical operations each year go? What happens to the critically ill maternity patient at
Grace Hospital who requires ICU services? Who cares for the acute spinal cord injured patient? :

We urge you, who have personally experienced the friendly, quality health care that Shaughnessy provides,
to contact your political leaders and express your concerns today!

Fax

Mike Harcourt

Elizabeth Cuil
Glen Clark

Tom Perry

Gordon Campbell
Kim Campbell

THE FUTURE OF SHAUGHNESSY HOSPITAL DEPENDS ON YOU!

THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN PAID FOR BY THE DOCTORS, NURSES AND OTHER

HEALTH CARE WORKERS COMMITTED TO

253-7905
387-5394
431-8119
733-1334
873-7621
666-8888

KEEPING SHAUGHNESSY

Pree or et

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- Telephone

660-0672
387-3696
660-0279
775-0977
873-7685
666-4874

HOSPITAL OPEN.

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