STICKING TOGETHER like birds of a feather, hang glider pilots standing in Une for daring the six patiently line up to take the flying leap from the top of Grouse Mountain. Birdmen from various countries have found the spectacular view worth LGH out to av election shambles 4 FA % FA % gz Le a = th World Invitational Hang Gliding Championships which opened Wednesday and wind up today. (Exic Eggertzon photo) Nominations closing early DESPAIR of Lions Gate Hospital's annual nightmare of clecting new board member has prompted the hospital to introduce changes to the election procedure. Abortion continues to ensure cach annual meeting of the hospital society is a shambles, because of the requirement of attendance by people whose only in- terest in the hospital is to vote for directors according to their stand on the ongoing controversy. This year the hospital is planning various changes to the September annual meeting in attempts to prevent the election from totally swamping all other business of the meeting. The idea is to get the voting for the four vacancies over as soon as possible so the rest of the mecting can proceed orderly. Thousands of North Shore residents are members of the hospital society merely so they can vote with the ‘in- tention of dictating the hospital's abortion policy by electing candidates running on either a Pro-Life or pro choice slate. Such a turnout mcaas the hospital has to rent the North Van = Recreation Centre ice rink and curling rink and the Centennial Theatre, merely to ac- commodate all the voters, CONTINUED ON PAGE AS AAT SEAM SAN Le ~ Rental vacancy furnaround wall UNLESS the municipal ‘council changes its policy, North Van- couver City may well mever again see strata conversions from rental properties. Concerned that strata changeovers deplete an already tight rental stock, the City policy is to refuse strata applications while the rental vacancy rate is less than three per cent. A report prepared for the City by its staff shows that in April the overall rental vacancy rate in the municipality was less than one per cent. And the Canada Mort- gage and Housing Cor- poration spokesman who provided the figures used in the report says it is unlikely North Van City’s apartment CONTINUED ON PAGE A2 weather SUNDAY Sunny MONDAY Sunny with cloudy periods Reaching Every Door on the North Shore