woe 4h = Home and Garden «+0 19 rea Inquiring Reporter ++ 30 > Lautens eee § ‘ North Shore Alert +98 » Summer Camps ee 45 = Talking Personals **¢ 43 April 18, 1997 Executive dismissal sickens LGH nurses Heaith board CEO continues with cuts By lan Noble News Reporter NURSES at Lions Gate Hospital have added their voices to calls for North Shore Health Board CEO Inge Schamborzki to step down. Ar the same time, Schamborzki, who has received the strong endorsemen: of her regional board boss, continues to prune positions in an effort to make the health region more efficient. Last week, doctors and a Hospital Employees Union representative took their complaints about the North Shore Health Board and its CEO public. Doctors said they had lost confidence in both the board and its top executive. Their comme.ts came after popular hos- pital chief operating officer Lynette Best was dismissed. On Monday, the British Columbia Nurses’ Union chief steward, Annabelle Dick, and operating room head nurse Sherry Stojkovich called Best's firing inappropriate. See Health pane 3 Lions Gate link limit $70 Cash would cover LGB rehab if no private partner secured govermnent first promised a new or rehabilitated link, B.C. Transportation Financing Authority CEO Blair Redlin said Victoria won't support a project that results in’ a= major increase in traffic across the Burrard Enlet. The options the provincial government will consider By fan Noble News Reporter Atop transportation bureaucrat said the Lions Gate Bridge will have to make do with a $70-million makeover if a public- private partnership can’t come up with funding for a more ambitious plan. Nearly four years and countless studies after the provincial 3 DAY WEATHER FORECAST Enter Evita 012 Evita cast prepares for North Vancouver performances Baby driver 026 Test drive Toyota’s new 2-door sport ute, the RAV4 NEWS photo Terry Peters LARRY Yuille shows off some cast-offs returned to him. He has assembled an interesting collection over the many years spent at Lions Gate Hospital putting casts on people. inclade: Nacnrday: Suey High 17 Clow 3 C. Sunday: Periods of vain High 14°C, low 6'C. aa Monday: Cloudy High 15° Complete TV listings plus top ien lists North Shore This Week p13 76 uages ¢ $1.00 Hospital’s king of casts calls ita day By Michael Becker News Editor LAURANCE Yuille has worked with a cast of thousands. He was celebrated dy friends and co-workers at Lions Gate Hospital on a recent Thursday. Yuille, 61, is retiring after 30 years at the hospi- tal. Sixteen of those years have been spent in the Cast Room. “Phe room is much like any hospital environ- ment but with one senking difference: the shelves lining the wall above a row of beds hold a marvellous collection of cast-off casts. Each is a colorful piece of folk art. Yuille’s former patients have contributed them. “They'll let us have them if we talk nicely to them. Usually they don't want them anyway after six weeks of wearing it,” he said. His stock in trade when it comes to broken body parts? “Mostly wrists. Especially at this time of the year with snowboarders. In the summertime it’s the in-line skates — people falling down and breaking their wrists,” Yuille said. He’s had everything from stuntmen to news reporters walk through his doors — all limps of Wie, “We get everybody sooner or later.” The Cast Room is 3 busy place with 40 Patients passing through its doors daily on aver- age. Oddly enough he’s never broken any part of his own body, “I'm very careful. I don’t do any- thing foolish.” He has enjoyed his many years at the hospi- tal. “It’s been a great place to work with a lot of good people in it, the best equipment. I had only actually meant to stay here for two years, | wanted to keep moving, but it has been a good hespital,” he said. Ma rchabilirated bridge estimated ar $70 million; H@ 2 four-lane bridge and four-lane Stanley Park causeway estimated to cost $200 million; @ a bored tunnel under the park leading to an upgraded four-lane bridge for $450 million — a price tag Redlin said could likely be reduced. “If we can’t get improvements in cooperation with the local government and the private sector, the government will invest the $70 million in rehabilitation,” said Redlin. See Final page 3