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no power to license.
dogs and kennels or
prosecute’ people for’
failing to have a

licence, a North —&
Vancouver Provincial —

Court judge has ruled.

Judge J.B. Paradis made |
the ruling Thursday when he
quashed two of three counts

against Doris Orr of North .

Vancouver, which had been
laid under the City of North
Vancouver's dog bylaw.

The charges were
dismissed a year to the day
after ‘the great dog bust’ in
which Orr's residence at 248
West 26th Street, was raided
and she was charged with
unlawfully keeping more
than three dogs without a
kennel licence, keeping a
dog without a licence and
keeping more than six cats.

On May 21, North
Vancouver lawyer Gerry

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SUNDAY:
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sunny periods

MONDAY:
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ove school campaign

THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER

August 17,1980

Tel, 985-2131 Classified 986-6222

JUST FIVE MINUTES LEFT to deadline for membership registration at Lions Gate Hospital and Carol-

Anne Letty (tar right) brings in another 32 applications with fellow pro-choice supporter Karen Watson.
Both are members of the North Shore Women's Centre. (lan Smith photo)

The abortion con-
troversy at Lions Gate
Hospital has been
responsible for
membership of the
North and West
Vancouver Hospital

Society reaching the
§,000 mark.

This is triple the mem-
bership number of
something over 1,600 last
year, which was in itself a
record figure prompted by
the abortion issue.

Deadline for memberships
of anyone wishing to vote in
the September 17 election of
hospital directors, which is
seen by most as the com-
munity’s opportunity to show
acceptance or con-
demnation of abortion
continuing to be readily
available there, arrived
Thursday afternoon.

The count showed that
more than 3,800 new
members had signed up and
paid their $6 membership to
join the society which is a
condition of being able to
vote at the annual meeting.

Lions Gate senior assistant
administrator Eric O'Dell
said it was not immediately
obvious how many previous
members had renewed their
membership in addition to
the new members but that he
fecls the total membership of

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