erent neat cen ae ane oentey YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1969 CMT yt ene ail SUBS Rae cpp Ont eee oF oa y CRIBE TO WIN. VOLUNTARILY subscribe to the North Shore News for one year and be eligible ‘to win thousands of dollars worth of prizes. iz return for your $25 subscription | you will receive two [ree classified ads valued at $18 plus a chance to win an" soaker rs Cee June 12, 1987 News 985. Classified 986-6222 Distribution 986-1337 92 pages 25¢ ALL! | a “NORTH. VANCOUVER'S Holy Trinity Elementary School track and field team sprinted away with a A ‘second consecutive B.C. provincial track and field championship victory recently. Tae young athletes won a total of seven gold, 10 silver and 11 bronze medals at the May 30 weekend competition in Richmond. Winning results include: Grade 3, 2 x 800 boys—gold, medley boys—silver, 4 x 400 boys—bronze, mediey girls—silver, 4 x 100—siiver; Grade.4, medley girls—gold, 4.x 100—silver, Marne O’Flaherty—80€ silver, 400 bronze, LJ bronze, Erin Jardine— SP bronze; Grade 5, medley boys—silver, 4 x 100 boys—bronze, Simon Rogers—SP bronze, medley girls—gold, 4 x 100—gold, Jamie Mackey—1500 gold, LJ gold, 400 bronze, Patricia Karpowicz—200 bronze, Marian. Andersen-SP bronze; Grade 6, T.J: Bak—H3J silver, medley girls—gold, 4 x 100—bronze; Grade 7, medley boys—silver, 4 x 100—silver, medley girls—silver, Aparna Ray—H3J bronze. fa |LGH confrontation predicted gain control ; if_pre-tifer. Ss Alaskan Cruise. See details on pages 12, 19, 23, 33; 34, and 35. eo A 32 PER CENT jump in North and West. Vancouver Hospital Society (NWVHS) membership represents a dramatic increase in focal concern that community services at: Lious Gate Hospital could be threatened by 2 pro-life sweep in the June 24 hospital board elections, according to the board’s current vice-chairman. . Jim Warne said Thursday a four-seat sweep by pro-life can- didates in the election could result in the same confrontation that has swirled: around hospitals such as Kamloops’s Royal Inland where tough new abortion guidelines were passed recently by the hospi- tal’s anti-abortion dominated board, and Richmond General Hospital where a doctor has said fellow doctors would withdraw services if the hospital’s board in- terfered with the work of the hos- pital’s therapeutic abortion com- mittee. “We feel there could be the same kind of confrontation with medical staff at Lions Gate,” Warne said. ‘Though they (pro- life candidates) promise no con- frontation at the hospital, we have to go by past performances and judging from those we are really worried.” He cited the attempt by former board members George Carruthers and Michael Whelton to file a suit against LGH in an effort to change the hospital's abortion policy. Warne said the suit, which was rejected by the B.C. Court of Ap- peal in December 1985, cost the hospital $100,000 in legal fees. But North Shore Pro-Life presi- dent Ross Labrie said his associa- tion is after reform not confronta- tion and reiterated past statements that candidates backed by his organization were professionals who had a wide range of skills to offer the board, “fm so tired of this argument,”’ he said. ‘‘Even if we did elect four candidates in the election, we would not have a majority. I think the other side is being somewhat hysterical in raising the bogeyman of confrontation.”’ NWVHS membership jumped from 3,578 eligible voters in 1986 By TIMOTHY RENSHAW News Reporter to 4,728 members this year. This year’s NWVHS member- ship is only 170 Jess than the socie- ty’s peak membership of 4,898, which was reached in 1980 follow- ing a four-Seat pro-life sweep in the 1979 LGH board elections. NWVHS membership in 1979 was 1,694. Warne said this year’s jump in NWVHS membership reflected in- creased awareness in the impor- tance of the board elections from both sides in the abortion issue. Of the 17 LGH board members, 12 are elected and five are ap- pointed. There are currently four NSPL- endorsed board members. Labrie has denied that the four NSPL nominees for this year’s board clections are single-issue candidates. The NSPL, he said, wants mod- erate reform of LGH abortion policies, “The problem is that the number of abortions performed at the hospital is way out of whack with the rest of the province,’’ he said. According to Labrie, the pro- vincial average is 26 abortions per 100 live. The average number of abor- tions performed at LGH, accor- ding to hospital figures, has drop- ped from 50 per 100 live births in 1982 to 34 per 100 live births in 1986. LGH president John Borthwick said he personally was not happy with the hospital’s abortion figures, ‘‘but I am not ashamed of them either. No one is for abor- tions. There is great sadness and tragedy surrounding each one."*