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THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER

NEW DUNDARAVE
POLL CALLED ~

Council

By WENDY HAYSOM

A FRUSTRATED
Hank Sager pulled the
plug Monday night on
his Dundarave
neighborhood pub ap-
plication and stormed
out of West Vancouver
council chamber with
his supporters, disrup-
ting the meeting after
council voted 4-3 to
hold another referen-
dum on the issue.

In an emoton-charged
moment Sager marched to
the microphone while voting
was still in progress and told
council he withdrew his ap-
phcation

“The hell with them. I've
had enough,” he declared,
turning on his heel and lIcav-
ing the chamber. His walk.
out sparked a mass exodus of
supporters, causing Mayor

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WEDNESDAY
Sunny with
scatered cloud

THURSDAY
Mainly cloudy

Newsroom 985-2131 Classified 986-6222

By CHRIS LLOYD

JOB ACTION by
Hospital Employees’
Union members at
Lions Gate Hospital
over the disciplining of
an employee has con-
tinued to escalate with
further stoppages this
week and threatens to
spread to other
hospitals.

Though focused on Lions
Gate, the dispute between
the umon and hospital
Management has been sim
Mering since wide scale
layoffs began a week age
Both sides are digging tn
their heels and things
threaten to get worse before
they get any better

Job action began — last
Thursday when maintenance
staff stopped working as a
result of a warning letter
given low staff member over
repeated absences attributed
to sickness

Monday morning dictary
staff began a sittin at the
hospital cafetema protesting
layofls leaving non contract
staff toa serve breakfast to pa
tents

Then fuesday they were
joined by housekeeping and
stores staff

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NEWS photo Eric Eggertson

SITDOWN by dictary stafl in Lions Gate Hospital cafeteria is cxplained by thelr picket sign. They claim that
layoffs of fellow stafl are vold and that those people affected are in fact locked out rather than laid off.