wtws Regerteen
TERRI SMITH and Carol Kelly helped mine-month-old Dalyn Smith combat’

heat with a brief dip in the decorative fountain at 14th Street and Lonsdale
presence of the forbidding sign.

Bei,

t Thursday's
— despite the

Only increase in robberies

WEST VANCOUVER appears to be bucking the .

trend as far as serious crime in the province is

concerned.

While recently released
Statistics Canada figures
show an increase in serious
crime in B.C., figures for. thé
first six months of 1983 show
the situation in West: Van-

‘couver is different.

Major crimes have either
dropped in number or have
risen only slightly in the
January to July period, com-
pared to 1982.

* The only area where there
has been an increase, in fact,
is in the robbery category

Battle lines d
annual abortion fight

with a jump from 12 in £982
to 15.to June of this year. .

At the same time there: has
been dramatic decreases in
the number of assaults,
dropping from 81 to 62, and.

sexual offences which: are
down from 18 in 1982 to six
this year.

The number of fraud cases
West Van has been called on
to handle is down to 94 from
96 last year while the

:
: ana! ,
voy ~ .

number of breaking and
entering incidents has drop-
ped to 238. from 261.

The Statistics Canada
figures released last week —.
which are expected to be
echoed. jn the B.C... Police:
Commission annual. report
when it is released later this:

month — show serious
crimes ‘rose’ sharply
thorughout B.C.

- Incidents of homicide rose
26.1 per cent, sexual of-
fences were up 15,2 per cent
and robberies were up 30 per
cent overall and a massive 70
per cent when guns were us-
ed.

MO pets

1 for

Pro Life versus Choice association

BOTH SIDES are marshalling supporters for the
annual battle for control of the Lions Gate
Hospital board of directors — and contro! over

the abortion situation at the hospital.

Monday is the deadline for
membership in the socicty
which elects the board and
both the North Shore Asso-
ciation for Choice on Abor-
tion and the North Shore Pro
Life Society are busy signing
up members.

At issue in the clection —
as far as the two groups are
concerned — is the esti-
mated 750 abortions that are
performed at Lions Gate
Hospital cach year.

The North Shore Associa-
tion for Choice on Abortion
bought newspaper space last
week to urge supporters of
abortion to join the socicty
by Monday. so they will be
able to vote at the annual
general mecting of the group
on Sept. 8.

“There are people work-
ing now to abolish all thera-
putic abortions at LGH.,” the
ad read. “They must be stop-
ped.”

The message was the op-
posite in the monthly news-
letter of the North Shore Pro
Life Society delivered this
week.

As part of tts two-page
newsilettcr, the socicty also
urged support of five candi-
dates termed independent,
with independent defined as
“candidates not committed
to an extension of the
hospital's present = scan-
dalously permissive policy
on abortion.”

Even with the clection of
the Pro Life Socicty's five-
member slate, anti-abortion

groups on the North Shore
would still not have a majori-
ty on the 17-member board
of directors.

Five of those seats are va-
cant this year, four of them

CONTINUED ON PAGE A10

weather

SUNDAY
Sunny and warm

MONDAY
Sunny

Reaching Every Door on the North Shore