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But all that’s changed,
according to the ‘ministry,
- and hospital | administrator |

health ministry.,

fund actual operating costs.

- “Up to now, Lions Gate has
. -been in the “same bind “as

many other’ B.C. hospitals,

‘with the: ministry, pruning-its. ~ ae
é ....Even:so, that left him with |

budgets which were already
‘trimmed to a minimom. until

. ‘there were fears that a-wing’
-might have to be closed ‘or,

-other “services “cut. back
because of lack of funding.

John Borthwick has received
two lots. of good news: in as

many weeks. .

Up to now he was still

even worrying how -he was
going to. pay. off- the
hospital's deficit for last year

after: his repeated requests —

and the repeated refusals

from. health’ minister Bob .

McClelland ‘to pick up the
tab. =e. . re

Borthwick’s attitude “has
always been that he has
made every. cut-possible in
hospital spending and. that
any more 3
fering*inferior . sérvice ‘to
patients. are

First shot. of .good news:
came’ when thie ‘minister set
aside. $13: million .to “cover.

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the province's hospitais:~

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the actual deficit had been

announcement ‘meant the
remaining. $300,000: would
also be covered. ”

- ONGOING WORRIES ©

‘considerable worries for. this

'* year’s.. deficit,. which: was: -

~‘rapidly building up, with an

?. $800,000 payroll’ every two. |
.  wéeks for the hospital's |

1,200.employees: .

another circular which
indicated that the ministry
‘will be. bailing out all the
“province’s hospitals.

> Borthwick says he expects .

-$800,000..--Borthwick had |=
. already acquired $500,000 of - |.
-, it after a telephone appeal to = [°
provincial -the ministry for help and the
will finally.

ic Last~-week he received

to get information by the end: [| |

- of the month as to how much
‘the hospital will receive and
funding . problems |
hospitals’ throughout’ the
province and that a major
revision of funding of
hospitals will be carried out
by the ministry over the next

“Borthwick is now much’
more . hopeful. about, the ~

future, commenting: “There
has . always: “been a

“disagreement as io what

~-we’ye said our needs are and

what they were prepared to" ~

give us.”

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of obstruction

A young West Vancouver
man was found guilty last
week of obstructing a peace
officer after an incident
October 29 of last year.

But in a trial last week in
West Vancouver Provincial
Court, Victor Chapman,
aged 19, of 39 Glenmore
Drive, was found not guilty
of causing a disturbance the
same ¢vening.

Chapman was charged
after West Vancouver Police
were called to break up a
noisy party of about 200
people in the 500 block
Howe Sound Lane, at about
la.m. ,

Constable
testified in

Bernard Ball
court, that

Chapman was one of 35 to 40
people who were on the
street and were requested to
leave the area.

Ball said that Chapman

_ began to leave, but he then

returned and was arrested

when he refused to leave the
area,

Chapman denied he was
attempting to return to the
party when he was arrested,
and he also said he did not
shout) loudly and cause a
disturbance, as Ball said he
had done.

Judge R.  Grandison,
delayed the sentencing of
Chapman until a_ pre-
sentence report can be
prepared.

CofC elects
NEWS edito

At last) week's regular
meeting of the board of
North Vancouver Chamber
of Commerce Nocl Wright,
editor-in-chief of the North
Shore News and Sunday
News, was elected a director
of the chamber.

Mr. Wright. who will
sorye a one-year term, fills
one of the two, vacancies on
the board brotght about by
the recent death of Mr. Stan
Brown and the resignation of
Mr. Doug Black, both of
whom were clected in 1978.

Says it is apparent that the -
ex- f
perienced at Lions’ Gate |[_
have been..experienced at ~

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