Ply, Nurses join gov't n condemning doctors’ actions From pane. Gaulin is referring to current negotiations of next year’s total health budget between the ministry and the BCMA. This vear’s figure is $1432 billion. . Gailin said the projected budget overrun was dealt with Jast fall when the amount doctors billed the Medical Services Plan was shaved by 4.4%. He added thar this year’s costs will remain within budget as a result of last year’s cut Albeit for different reasons, the British Columbia Nurses’ Union (BCNU) is on side with the provincial government in condemning the doctor's actions. “We tally have concerns,” said BCNU vice-chairman of the Vancouver North region Sheila Blaikic. “The System {sy stretched pretty thin already wad with the slowdown it just add. (to the problem).” Of szreatest concern for the nurses. who have launched an advert:.ng campaign outlining their opposition to the doctors? actions, is the impact on the province's hospitals. “The emergencies are so busy and backed up a great deal of the time, the system just doesn’t need more people going to the emer- gencics,” said Blaikic. Lions Gate Hospital chief administrator Stew Madill said it’s “The emergencies are so busy and backed up a great dea! of the time, the sys- tem just doesn’t need more peopie going to difficult to predict exactly how the closure of doctors’ offices will impact the hospital’s emergency the emergencies.” ~ Sheila Blaikie, BCHU vice chalz of the Vancouver North region department. “We are anticipating a busier day in the emergency depart- ment,” said Madill. He added that an extra emergency physician and additional nursing staff will be on hand all day Friday. “If they (patients) have an emergency, they will be dealt with. If they have something less urgent they may wait longer.” In addition, Madill said doctors will not perform any elective surgeries. Other parties impacted by the shut down of doctors’ offices include medical office assistants and laboratory employees “We're giving our staif'a paid day off,” said Richards. “Our staf¥ work very hard when we’re there and they’re not part of this dispute.” Meanwhile MDS Metro Laboratory Services which operates four North Shore-based labs will close the majority of their outlets in the Lower Mainland, including three locally because most of their business comes from same-day physician referrals. “We're trying to do it strategically, keeping labs open that are most con- venient,” said MDS spokesman Judi Greenwood. But laboratory employees will not be penalized financially. Staff mem- bers at the closed clinics have been given a choice of taking a holiday day off or participating in a training and education day. rothers Stock promoter stunned by judge’s ruling Wednesday Anna Marie D’Angelo News Reporter dangelo@nsnews.com EXTRA sheriffs were called in on Wednesday to a court room in B.C. Supreme Court as a West ‘Vancouver man reacted to being found guilty of sexually assaulting a young girl in the late 1980s and 1990. Frank Evansh 49, first appeared stunned when Madam Justice Janet Sinclair Prowse said she found the stock promoter guilty of two charges against him. Evanshen interrupted the judge and said, “That’s not true,” as Sinclair Prowse summarized the reasons for her decision As the judge continued, Evanshen shook his head in disbelief and stared at his Jawyer Len Doust who was taking notes at the defence lawyers’ table. The judge said she believed the victim, who testified knowing that Frank was nor circumcised because the then 13-year-old girl was forced to perform fellatio in Frank’s car weekly for a year. Ar that point, Frank turned away from watching, the judge and mouthed the words “i...ing bitch” in the direction of spectators. Ashort tine tater, the lone sheriffin the courtroom radioed for assistance. A second sheriffwas brought to the courtroom. A third sheriff stood in the hallway outside the courtroom. Frank was found gu xually assaulting the victim when she was age HL to 15. Th al assaults began with breast grop- ing and graduated to fellatio in Frank’s car after the victim bab Frank’s children. Frank told the victim he was her teacher in sexu- al matters. Frank was also found guilty of obstructing justice for his efforts to dissuade the victim from testifying in another sexual assault charge in 1990. Pipers prevail ARGYLE point guarc! Rosalyn Hicks drives past Charles Hays guard Kim Burias during Argyle’s 91-68 win Wednesday in opening round action of the B.C. triple-A girls basketball championships at Capilano College. Hicks led Argyle with 16 points. The number two seeded Pipers faced Lord Byng last night at the Sportsplex. The championship final game goes tomorrow night at 8:15 p.m. bf sex assault WEST Vancouver brothers Fred (left) and Frank Evanshen were both convicted of sexual assault. The victim’s identity is banned from publication by court order. The victim is now 22 years ald. Frank’s bother Perry, 38, of Claresholm Alberta near Calgary, was found guilty ually assaulting the victim in 1990 when the victim was 14 years old. Perry had non-consensual sexual inter- course with the victim in her bedroom at 5 a.m. That day she was forced to perform repeated acts of oral ; shen brother, Fred, 57, pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting the victim in a related charge. Fred, who is in poor health, was fined $1,000 on Feb. 6 for the crime Madam Justice Sinclair Prowse said that she rejected testimony from Frank and his wife Molly that they had dinner table discus- sions about whether to have their fourth child circumcised when the victim was pre: The fact that Frank and one other Evanshen names of at least five Evanshen brothers came up during the tral.) “It struck me asa very unlikely conversation to take place,” said children were age seven, four and three when the circumcision conversations were supposed to have taken place at dinner in their Cypress Park area home. The judge also said thar the evidence showed the victim was not around at the dime. A nanny had been hired co replace the babysitter before the fourth child’s birth. The judge called Molly Evanshen an unreliable witness. Molly testified she very rarely went out and thus didn’t nced a babysitter. She said she went to so-called “Stitch'n Bitch” sessions less than once a month during the time of the sexual assaults. Bur both Frank and the victim testified that the victim babysar weekly for the weekly and he would go out with the roughout the tial, the victim's mother was criticized tor vely abandoning, her two daughters to repeated verbal and sual abuse. The mother’s former boytriend, Fred, was convicted exually assaulting both girls. The victim’s mother, a 53 old North Van resident, was called as a defence witness for P y was defended by lawyer David Crossin. The mother’s testimony appeared to support her estranged daughter's statements that Perry had slept in a certain bedroom on the night of the sexual assault. The mother said she had no recol- lection of Perry going to stay with Frank on the weekend visit aft spending the first night at the victim’s home, Perry testitied he had gone to stay with Frank and was not even in the the v 's home ight of the sexual assault. The judge rejected the detence’s argument that the victim was motivated by tinancial gain, noting Perry had limited financial resources. Perry is employed at a custom feed lot near his Perry and Frank, dressed in dark, tailored business su sat in the defendant’s box near their lawyers. Perry appe: bre listening to the judge. Perry looked over once at his wife, June, sitting in the spectate After the court proceedings, the victim said she was happy with the guilty verdicts. She said the : Was smart enough to we through the fabri ‘high paid” lawyers. Crown lawyer Mark Rowan said he would ask for jail sentences. Sentencing, was adjourned to April 17.