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THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER

‘north shore

January 5, 1983

Tel. 985-2131 Classified 986-6222

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‘LGH feels
the pinch
of aging

By BILL BELL

“UNION intimidation”
is keeping parents from
their
West
Vancouver's schools,

volunteering
services in

claim representatives
of the Hillside Parents
Group.

Co-chairpersons Tunya
Audain and Suzanne Latta
have told the school board
that since the teaching aides
were laid off last September,
parents have not been
allowed to volunteer in areas
where they were normally
welcomed

“Many parents were eager
and anxious to help, but we
have been told that this is a
sensitive issue” Audain said

Audain later told the News
that her group had been sent
a letter
Vancouvers Municipal
Association
which she said gave her a
very quick “political lesson

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Employees

fuom the West

NEWS phote Ellaworth Dickson
DONNING CHAINS became the only way for skiers to get their vehicles Only those drivers who had chains to put on at that point appeared to
up Mount/Seymour Monday morning as constantly changing weather have any hope of venturing further into the mist and clouds without

conditions of rain, snow and ice made the road so sli pery that at one having to walt for a weather sha en= -~anmggpck, ~ a ..
time the highway was lined with webt-te- Mae * . ies 7

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Struggling to meet demands for beds

THE population of the North Shore is aging ata nigh proportion of persons

faster pace than Lions Gate Hospital can keep up oover the age of 65." says

with. hospital administrator John
Borthwick

Lions (Crate managed tu ; ” ibe average length of stay
scrape through the year after SPECIAL TO THE N tm hospitals for patients over

the staggering blow.ol a loss 65 in three times that of
of 144 staff and 5S beds duc younger panent{ and far

gh ma om

furthe: financial prossune on

to 10S funding being slashed the hospital, with three labor | omtserips the cXisting
by Vin tora sctthements to be made are netlities . ae
Hut the fact that the being accentuated by — the Applicants for the WEDNESDAY

hospital pulled through was aging trend of the com

munity s population

hospitals Evergreen House
extended care unit’ alrendy

Periods of rain
some wind, mild

due to a combinaton of

hhugality ingenuity and oa locreasing the strain on face oa two vear | waiting THURSDAY
shift towards Gay care lions Gates tesounecs isthe  perod And cvca when an C -
suUIKOeLy North Shore population catensson currently being loudy

And aow the thicats af

with ramy penods

makcup whieh has ao very CONTINUED ON PAGE A4