New hea Kelsey says search for health CEQ, board narrows Anna Marie D'Angelo News Reporter dangelo@nsnews.com THE names of nominees for the new North Shore Health Region board should be sent to Victoria within a week. Len Kelsey, the health region’s pubic administrator, said that the health minister will choose nine or 10 people. He did not reveal the names of nominees. Kelsey anticipates the board will be appointed by the health minister bv mid Mav. The original volunteer regional health board was fired by the provincial government earlier this year. The health region’s CEO, Inge Schamborski, soon followed. Kelsey declined to talk about the past acrimony between the health board, the CEO and doctors. Before the firings, Hospital doctors refused to talk to Schamborski. Said Kelsey, “I think the only thing useful about the past intormation is to learn from i ir.” He did say that one of his jobs was to resolve the impasse that had developed with the medical community, such as the doctors, an! get them involved in the process. “It was really a awed process without their involvement,” Kelsey, 54, was on the Lions Gate Hospital board for seven years just Abduction attempt probed _ Robert Galster News Reporter robert@usncws.com NORTH Vancouver par- ents t an anxious week cautioning their kids in the wake of an attempted abduction in Pemberton Heights. Last Friday, a six-year-old boy playing in in front of his 1200-block of West 2 3rd Street home resorted to screaming when an unidentified man grabbed the seat of his bicy- de. The man surprised the boy when he emerged from behind a parked van. The man ticd to quict the panicking boy by putting his hand over the boy's mouth. But the screams attracted the boy’s older sister and ovo friends who had been playing nearby and resulted in the man fleeing north along Bridgeman Avenue. The suspect is described as being a clean-shaven, six-foor tall Caucasian wearing a black baseball cap bearing the logo of a skull dipping blood. He was wearing a black T-shirt with a skeleton on the front, blue jeans and black shoes. A similarly described: male was also seen near Capilano clemen- tary schvol nwo hours larer. An 1)-year-old girl ran home and said the man had been staring at her. The girl said she aw the man get into a small orange car she described as rusty, North Vancouver RCMP Constr. Torn Seaman. said the police have since received one report ofa man of similar desenp- tion “staring oddk” at children near the Seymour Demonstration Forest. Seaman said RCMP sex crimes unit inv estigators are checking the man’s 5 description against existing files in. other Lower Mainland jurisdictions. : Anyone with information on this case is asked to contact the North Vancouver RCMP detach- ment at 985-131] and refer to file 98-13272. said Kelsey. NORTH Shore Health Region public adrnin- istrator Len Ketsey Lions Gate ty activity, a strong financial background, legal Friday, May 1, 1998 — North Shore News — 3 betore the regionalization process began. The government moved towards more community-based health care and the amalgamation of all health-care resources ins the revion. “We have to move beyond the ideological nig of war between acute care and community care,” said Kelsey, The new system should provide the most cost effective and best care for a patient, he said. “You can’t assume that to treat a patient in their nome 3s cheaper than treating them in the hospital,” said Kelsey. Kelsey said the old system had difficulties in making the best use of various health care services. The new health SVS: rem should be “seamless.” Kelsey, a West Vancouver resident of 29 years, said he took about a week to decide whether he wanted the vol- unteer job of the health region’s public administiator in February. Kelsey is also vice-presideat of product develop- ment at BCAA, Kelsey said a regional health board should include members with a background in health care and communi- background and experi- ence in either governance or executive leadership. The North Shore Health Region's budger is $180 million. A recent auditor general report pointed out problems in regional heath boards whose apparent makeup was first based on a broad social repre- sentation, Experience and competence to be a regional health board mem- ber appeared to be not as important as the social mix of the group. Kelsey said the search for a new CEO for the heaith region has already begun. He hopes the new board will selcet a CEO by mid June NEWS photo Mike Wakefield Disturbing find A woman found a child’s red one-speed bike, a bwy’s jacket, a pair of brown shoes, white socks and a black bike helmet April 21 at Wagg Park near 21st and Chesterfield. A yoting boy, nine or 10 years old, was seen playing in the creek under a foot brid¢2 at about 1 p.m. Police searched the area but came up empty-handed. The items were not reported missing and police say no one reported a child missing. Contact RCMP Const. Alison Coyle at 985-1311 with information. Couple charged in NV robbery TWO people appeared in North Vancouver provin- cial court on Wednesday charged with a 1997 home invasion. Vahid Mahanian, 22, of Vancouver, and Melanie Pasicic, 20, of Coquitlam, are charged with robbery with a firearm, unlawful confinement, commit- ting an indictable offence while masked, break and enter and using a firearm during a break and enter. The couple were charged in connection with a March 29, 1997. incident at a house in Upper Capilano. Police said that a man and woman wearing ski masks and armed with a handgun and shor- gun, entered the house at 10:30 p.m. They held 2 couple at gun- point in the family room. The couple’s children, aged four and six, were asleep at the time. The couple, aged 40 and 39, were tied up with duce rape. The homeawners were forced to give the robbers wallets and bank card numbers. Police sav the femae home invader held a gun to the couple while the male home invader lett and withdrew money fren? the couple's bank account. The Saadio stole $1,400 and o diamond ring. according to a previous News report. The cou- ple were lett bound ami gagged on the floor, The husband struggled to loosen the gag. He shouted and woke up his six-vear-old daughter upstairs. The child called 9-1-1. Police said a sawed-otf shot- gun and a .22 calibre Ruger hand- gun were seized trom Mahanian at the time of his arrest on Tuesday. Mahaiian and Pavicic entered the North Vancouver provincial court room on Wednesdav after- noon through the prisoners” door flanked by sheriffs. The couple agreed to stay in custody until their Jawver was available for a court date on Monday. ~-Auna Marie D’Anaclo Employment contract at issue From pase ' Supreme Court against the West Vancouver Police Board and West Vancouver District municipality. Mason claims the beard and the municipality wrongfully breached his employinent conmacr by filing to accommodate Mason's retum to his constable’s job at othe | West Vancouver Police Department. The lawsuit states that the police board didn’t give a reason for refit: ing to reinstate Mason to active duty. Mason, who made $60,899.97 as a constable in 1995, is claiming dam- ages for breach of employment cor: tract, wrongful dismissal, punitive - damages and aggravated damages. He also claims damages tor loss of pay, bonus, holiday pay, vacations pay and pension plan contributions front April 15, 1996, to the date of reine statement. The West Vancouver Police Board, headed by Mayor Pat Boname, and West Vancouver municipality had not responded to the lawsuit allegations to press time.