PRO CHOICE, PRO LIFE SQUARE-OFF Candidates named for LGH board elections FOUR candidates from the Lions Gate Hospital Board of Directors and four from the North Shore Pro Life Society (NSPLS) have thus far been nominated to run for the four available seats in the June 24 hospital board elections. Board nominations will be ac- cepted until S p.m. May 22. Nominees must be 19 or older and be members of the North aud West Vancouver Hospital Society (NWVHS). Voters must also be society members. New members must join the hospital society by midnight May 24 and can do so at LGH. Annual memberships are $5. A lifetime membership is $50. Four board seats come up for election annually. Board members serve three-year terms and can Serve a maximum of three con- secutive terms. Of the 17 board members, 12 are elected and five are appointed, one from each of the North Shore's three municipalities, one from the LGH auxiliary and one from the provincial government. Nominees must live in the same municipality as the board seat they are seeking. In the June 24 elec- tion, North Vancouver City will have two board seats to fill. North and West Vancouver districts will By TIMOTHY RE. News Reporter each have one seat. Running for re-election in one of 3 NORTH SHORE Pro Life presi- dent Ross Labrie...not one-issue candidates. the two North Vancouver City seats will be former North Van- couver City alderman Rod Clark. SCHOOLS HEAR PRESENTATION Youth peace visits North Shore NORTH SHORE . ; cal students in a youth nuclear disarmament TWO OF the four Mou West Vancouver Secondary School stu- . gr here talking to i dents Thursday. The Mont: eal students are on a Canada-wide tour, and have already brought their 1.1essage of peace to 120,000 students. ue ena Se Also nominated by the LGH board to run for North Vancouver City is registered nurse Patricia Piggott. NSPLS nominees for city seats are math teacher Rick Murrell and mining consultant John McLaughlin. In North Vancouver District, the board has nominated communica- tions consultant Vickie O’Brien. The NSPLS candidate is computer specialist John O’Connor. The board’s West Vancouver candidate is lawyer Patrick Williams. Geoffrey Still will run for the NSPLS. In the 1986 board elections, candidates for the Pro-Lions Gate - Hospital organization swept the four available seats as 2,107 of the 3,578 eligible NWVHS voters cast ballots. But in the 1985 election, with 1,881 of 3,443 eligible voters casting ballots, four pro-life can- didates were elected to the board. LGH vice-chairman Jim Warne said Wednesday a sweep by NSPLS candidates in this year’s election would give pro-life sup- porters a majority on the elected portion of the board. Warne said the danger was that North Shore residents would become complacent about board slections and not bother to vote. group student peace groups are hoping their memberships will in- crease after Wednesday and Thursday visits by four Montreal students on a Canada-wide youth nuclear disarmament tour. Juliet Craig, 18, a grade 12 stu- dent at West Vancouver Secondary School, said the visiting Students Against Global Extermination (SAGE) gave an inspiring pres- entation Thursday. ‘Hopefully after SAGE there will be a lot more people in the local youth peace group,’’ she said. Craig said one month ago 15 West Vancouver students formed their own group called Students Against Violating the Environment (SAVE). “Everyone I know says there’s nothing they can do about it (world peace), but they all agree if we all did something, things would change,’ she said. : The SAGE group also visited Sentinel, Carson Graham and Col- lingwood schools last week. SAGE will be at the YMCA on Burrard Street Wednesday at 7 p.m. The SAGE students have visited 350 Canadian schools since September, reaching over 120,000 students. Tour organizers say 90 per cent of the schools SAGE visited have set up their own local peace groups. The SAGE Canadian tour ends in Vancouver this month. Afte.- wards they will visit American high schools, before going to Moscow in June to address an international peace convention. 3 - Sunday, May 17, 1987 - North Shore News LGH vice-chairman Jim Warne...danger in complacency. Though NSPLS president Ross Labrie has said his society’s can- didates have been selected for the wide range of skills they have to offer the board and are not one- issue candidates, Warne said the record of pro-life groups in other areas shows that the main thrust of their candidates, once elected, is to eliminate or sharply reduce the number of therapeutic abortions performed in hospitals. -He said the abortion issue oc- cupies a tiny percentage of the Weather: Sunday, mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Monday, mostly cloudy. Tuesday, mostly sunny. Highs near 17°C. board's overall responsibilties, but becomes its major focus during each board election. Other important issues facing the board that should be addressed during pre-election debates, he said, include the change of health care to reflect a repidly aging pop- ulation, allocativn of hospital resources and ivicreasing spending for new medical technology. ‘ Labrie said raising fears of a pro-life takeover of the board was a red herring. “The board has had pro-life members on it before without any fuss being raised,’’ he said. ‘‘Other areas have been able to reach a compromise (on the abortion issue). I don’t see why we can’t do it here.”’ The NSPLS maintains that the number of abortions performed at LGH is far higher than provincial or national averages. Labrie said the average in B.C. is 26 abortions per 100 live births while LGH per- forms 37 abortions per 100 live births. According to LGH figures, the average number of abortions per- formed each month at the hospital has dropped from 50 per 100 live births in 1982 to 34 per 100 live births in 1986. INDEX Business........... 14 Classified Ads.......74 Doug Collins........ 9 Comics ............55 Editorial Page....... & Entertainment....... 15 Fashion............21 Bob Hunter......... 4 Lifestyles .......... 63 Mailbox............ 7 Sports.............69 TY Listings.........72 What's Going On....27 COLLINS CHAIRS Committee rejects food irradiation A COMMONS committee, chaired by Capilano MP Mary Collins, has rejected the expansion of food ir- radiation in Canada and urges the labelling of ir- radiated foods currently ap- proved. The report, released Thursday, says it is still not known whether the irradiation process, which uses radiation to kill pests and pathogens in food, is safe. The process extends the shelf life of foods, such as onions, potatoes and spices. Because of specific safety concerns regarding ir- radiated wheat, the committee recommended that wheat no longer be irradiated until the concerns are resolved. Collins stressed the importance of more testing to provide further insight into potential biochemical and physiological problems that may arise from irradiated foods. And she said the committee supports a labelling scheme, which preys CAPILANO MP Mary Col- lins...siresses further testing. will identify irradiated products for consumers. The committee was struck in November 1986. It held 10 public meetings and received over 40 briefs from individuals, agencies and consumer and voluntary organizations,