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52 candidates in
two N. Vans; 29
in W. Vancouver

By ian Nable

News Reporter

THE cast of characters
has been assembled for
the Nov. 16 municipat
elections on the North
Shore.

In total, 81 residents will vie for

positions on three councils and two
school boards. Many of the names
remain the same, but, as in the case of
soon-to-be North Vancouver District
Mayor Don Beli,
some of the chairs
have changed. Two
mayors — West
Vancouver’s Mark
Sager and = North
Vancouver District's
Murray Dykeman
-—are bowing, out.
The following is the
final list of candidates:
West Vancouver
Mayor
Incumbent Coun, Pat Boname

Jim Hogan

Councillor

Sheila Adams

Glen Bancroft
Liz. Byrd
Lynn Coutes
Helen Davies

Peter Dowling
Victor Durman

Martin Ernst
Russ Fraser

Derrice

Humphreys
Peter Lambur
Genine McCurdy
Carolanne Reynolds
Bill Soprovich
Susan Thomas

et

WEATHER

Monday. Periods of rain
High 14°C, low 7°C.

Long life follows missed voyage

By Michael Becker

News Editor

ADA Craig’s father tried
to buy tickets for his fam-
ily to sail on the Titanic
in 1912. He couldn’t get
them.

Ada turncd 102 in
Vancouver on Thursday.

“It was the maiden voyage of the
Titanic, you see. 1 guess it was loaded
up. f wouldn’t be here I guess if 1 had
been on the Titanic. It was a shame
really, being a new boat,” said Ada.

She has no deep secrets to share
about her longevity.

Her really long life has nothing to
do with eating lots of yogurt, living
with little stress or partaking in massive
amounts of exercise.

Luck and durable genes may have
something to do with the lengthy
string of vears.

One of her brothers saw the ripe old

North

NEWS photo Paul Mcijrath

ADA Craig copes with the can-
dles on her cake as she cele-
brates 102 years. Friends and
family gathered at her North
Vancouver home on Thursday.

Anthony ‘Tobin

Coun, Allan Williams

Coun. Ron Wood

District 45 School Trustee

Erica Bell- Lowther

‘Trustee Clive Bird

Kristi Cave

Trustee Jean Ferguson

Trustee Kea Haycock

James Keen

Trustee Michael MacDougall
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David Stevenson

North Vancouver District

Mayor

Coun. Don Bell

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age of 98,

She’s the last remaining of nine
children, Ada came to Canada in 1912
with her parents Charles and Betsy
Gower from Hitchin, Hertfordshire in
England.

The — family
Westminster.

Asks Ada, “This is the story of my
life is in”

Helena Kovach, her apartment
neighbor on East 4th Street brought
the chocolate cake for Ada’s big day.

“Make a wish. You have to,”
Helena says.

“T can’t wish thar I was six years old
again,” Ada says as she faces the can-
dles.

Ada spent most of her life in
Vancouver. She married “a Vancouver
boy,” Raymond Craig who worked as a
pipe fitter.

She moved to the Lower Lonsdale
area in 1971.

Up until she was 100, Ada would
sometimes pack along lunch and a
good book and make the bus trip out
to Crescent Beach.

“I used to go out a lot,” she says.

She has seen much.

“Vancouver — everything has
changed.

“It's a long time. I’ve been as happy
as can be,” says Ada.

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