ALS QO A3 - Sunday, September 2, 1984 - North Shore News IN SIDE WEATHER: Sunny with cloudy periads Sunday and Tuesday, showers Monday. SPORTS: BI elebrating her victory LISA SIEMENS, winner of our Sunshine Girl of the Year competition, celebrated tn style with a wild raft ride down the Thompson and Fraser Rivers. Lisa was strapped into a life-jacket by boatman Chris Rogers of the River Run- ners, and then she and a group of friends hit the white water. THE FEDERAL ELECTI North Shore Cyclists continue to strike national WHAT’S ON: BI3 Blowing up a storm with the North Van Youth Orchestra. NEWS photos Ellsworth Dickson WHEELCHAIRS: C1 Some advice on wheelchairs for the layman. Automotive........B6 .. Business..........B4 Classified ........A21 Entertainment... . .B13 Fashion...........6 Food............C10 Mailbox..........A7 Real Estate........B5 Sports............Bl down Travel............@ TV Times........Bl4 hat’s Going on. .B12 NORTH SHORE youngsters go back to school Tuesday and the police are going with them. Both North Vancouver RCMP and the West Van- couver Police say they will be out in force to ensure that the rules of the road cover- ing such things as_ school zones are obeyed. As well as enforcing the speed limits in school zones — limits that are in effect from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day — police will be making sure crosswalk rules are obeyed and that motorists are yielding the right-of-way to the young pedestrians. Police will also be keeping an cye on the school students to ensure they are not creating hazardous situa lions. According to police, the first few weeks of the school year for both students and N 116,000 ready to cast b ABOUT 116,000 registered voters are eligible to cast their ballots Tuesday in the two ridings of Capilano and North Vancouver Burnaby. Of these, some 81,000 live on the North Shore ap- proximately 60,000 in Capilano riding and 21,000 in North Van cast of St. George’s Avenue — with the remaining 35,000 or so in North Burnaby major parties at the last fed eral election in 1980 were CAPILANO - Ron Huan. (Liberal) 10,843; Andy tington (Conservative) Krawezyk (NDP) 6,494 26,327, Gretrry Salberpz NORTH VAN BUR NABY Chuck Cook (Conservative) 16,744, Csor don Gabson (bE iberal) 14,307, Jack Woodward (NDP) 13,820 Canada wide results (Commons seats) in the 1980 election, in which just) over 11 million ballots were cast across the country, were Liberals 147, (C onser vatives 103, NDP 32, for a total of 282 seats At the ume the present election was called the party standings in the Commons had changed to the follow yng, as a result of deaths, tyelcctions and government patronage appointments Liberals 139, Conser- vittives 100, NDP 31, one Independent and 1! vacan- cles ° The magic number for an overall majority in the 282 scat Commons ts 142 In 1980 just over 1 2 mal lion Britush Columbians cast ballots in the province's 28 ridings They cliected 16 Conservatives, 12 NDP and no Luberals One seat changed handy in a 1983 byelection, making BC ‘'s Commons standing at the start of the present clec tion campaign 17) C onser vatives and 11 NDP Conservatives led in the BC popular vote in 1980 with 41 per cent followed by MARK HAMILTO drivers, as the two get used to seeing each other on the roads again. A_ particular problem comes with people speeding through school zones. Police are urging motorists to keep an eye out for children alongside all North Shore road and par- ticularly im the area of schools where the traffic — vehicular and pedestrian — is often congested and con- fusing. With the heavy emphasis on traffic rule enforcement, they add, those that aren't paying attention, may wind up paying the price of a tick- ct llots the NDP with 35 per cent, the Liberals with 22 per cent and others with two per cent Nationally, the popular vote figures were Liberals 44 per cent, Conservatives 32 per cent, NDP 20 per cent. other parties four per cent Among the other parties, the Rhinos received a total of 110,597 votes nationally (Qncluding 4,978 in BC ) for one per cent of the natonal popular vote