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Food bank and
seniors need extra
support in lockout

BY IAN NOBLE
News Reporter

AS the lock-out at Safeway and
Save-On-Foods and Drugs entered
its first morning, West Vancouver's
IGA was already reporting increased
business.

Meanwhile, operators of a North Vancouver
food bank and Novih Shore seniors organizations
worry abont the fock-out’s impact on their ser-
vices and clients,

On Friday, a management employee at the
Marine Drive IGA grocery store reported more
shoppers in the store's aisles.

“L couldn't guess at the incr
employee, “but it's definitely busier.”

He would not give his name because the com-
pany had asked employees not to speak to the
press.

fHe added IGA plans to increase staffing and
orders as needed while the strike continues.

Employees at six North Shore Safeways and
two local Save-On-Foods have been locked out
as a province-wide labor dispute continues.

Employers say the employees’ contracts are
too rich. But Leif Hansen of the United Food and
Commercial Workers Union said Safeway
Canada and Overwaitea Food Group, which runs
Save-On-Foods, are too greedy.

Therese MacNeil is the director of the
Vancouver Food Bank, which operates the food
bank at North Shore Neighborhood House.

She said the food bank picks up 2.500 pounds
of non-perishable food trom stores in Burnaby,
Vancouver and the North Shore. Up to 90% of
the food comes from shoppers at Safeway and
Save-On-Foods,

MacNeil said for many shoppers, dumping
food in the foed-bank bin at the stores is part of
their shopping routine, However, she worries that
when shoppers are in a new store and out of their
routine, they will forget their food donations.

“We're hoping peaple will remember and see
that this could have a big effect an us,” she said.

The food bank serves 225 people on the North
Shore weekly.

* said the

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NEWS photo Terry Peters

SAVE-ON-FQODS and Drugs employee Lisa Fagerlund walks the picket Sine with her
dog Ben at Park and Tilford Plaza on Friday, the first day of a province-wide lock-out.

Pregnant hostage lived on N. Shore

BY ANNA MARIE D'ANGELO
News Regorter

TWO fugitives who were holding
hostage a former North Vancouver
woman near Cranbrook cooperated
with the pregnant woman’s doctor
on Friday.

Leanne Campbell is duc to give birth within
days. A source at the hostage scene in the
Kootenays said the fugitives have complied with
a doctor's request that they monitor Campbell's
pulse.

Campbell was taken hostage in her rural
Wycliffe home on Pighin Road on Wednesday,
Police say the suspects in the hostage-taking are

Corey Nolan Lindsay, 20, and Melissa May
Schoenhalz, 19, both of Calgary

The pair are suspected of the armed robbery of

a video store in Cranbrook the day before
Campbell was taken hostage.

Longtime friend Rob Inman described
Canipbell as a sincere, sweet woman who people
could not help but like.

“My wife and [can't get it off our minds. We
are at the point that we are almost shaking. not
wanting to hear any bad news,” said Inman, who
owns North Vancouver's United Landscape
Supplies.

Inman has known Campbell and her husband
Peter Camptell for eight years.

The Campbells, in their inid 30s, lived in an
old house they renovated on East 6th Street near
Grand Boulevard. The couple moved back to
Leanne’s hometown area of Kimberley in

October.

Leanne works as an accountant and Peter is a
landscape designer and architect.

Jaman said a testament to the couple's com-
passion occurred when Peter rescued two uncol-
lared puppies on busy Lonsdale Avenue.

After some effort, Peter was able to locate the
dogs’ owner who said he couldn't take care of the
animals. Peter and Leanne decided to
unwanted dogs as their own.

Said Inman, “When | saw Peter on TV stand-
ing there alone and Leanne's dad standing off to
the side, 1 wanted to get into a plane and fly up
there and be there for him.”

During the initial police response to the
Campbell home, a Cranbrook RCMP officer was
shot in the chest area,

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Weather

Monday: Mainly sunny,
High 22°C, low 9°C.

spins on
election

BY MICHAEL BECKER
News Editor

THE provincial election is a
done deal, but the ramifica-
tions of the free enterprise
faction’s inability to build a
coalition in the period lead-
ing up to election day will
continue to play out in the
coming months.

Former Social Credit Party leader
Larry Gillanders, a North Vancouver
businesstnan and up until he stepped
out of the race on May 24 the party's
candidate for West Vancouver-
Capilano, found himself embroiled in
controversy in the dying days of
Election ‘96.

Here's some of what he had to say
on the day after the NDP won a major-
ity government.

People are looking at what you
did last Friday when you folded your
political cards four days before the
election as an act of sheer madness
or an act of selflessness. There is no
middle ground in what you did. Why
bail out when you did? A lot of your
candidates who I talked to during
the election, entered because they
were impressed by you as a leader.

Gillanders: “I have the highest
regard for our cundidates. You look at
the four candidates we had on the
North Shore — good guys —- but when
I was elected leader in 1994, the big
concer in the party was the defeat of
the NDP. It wasn't really the re-elec-
tion of Social Credit.”

But Social Credit has a lot of his-
tory and there is feeling attached to
it by some free enterprisers. Did you
simply choose ty look at the party as
a convenient shell for you?

Gillanders: “When we look at
Social Credit. the history really is a
coalition of free enterprise voters. |
was committed to working for a coali-
tion. | didn’t get hung up on the names.
it's important to have a coalition. It's
important to have Reform party input,
i's important to have Liberal input,
PDA input.”

Why the timing of your move to
bow out on Friday?

Gillarders: “What we saw was that
this election was coming down to the
old theory that one vote could make a

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