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“TUESDAY, JANUARY 18,1999

HEALTH

Health region gets new hoss

THE vice-chairman of
the North Shore
Health Region has
moved into the chair-
man’s seat.

Grant Spitz took over the
chairman's position on Jan.

Spitz replaces Len Kelsey
who has been board chair-

man for l4years.
Before that Kelsey was the

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health region's public admin-
istrator. He was appointed to
thar post after the provincial
government fired the entire
health board in early 1998.
Ar the time, the health
board, the then CEO of the
health region Inge
Schamborzki and doctors
were not working together
and involved in public acri-
mony.

Kelsey was on the Lions
Gate Hospital board for
seven years before the gov-
ernment che:ged the health
administrative system. The
health care system moved
towards community-based
care and amalgamation of all
health care resources in a
region.

Kelsey took over the
chairman’s post when a new
health board was appointed
after the firings.

Meanwhile Spitz, is a for-
mer director of the Lions
Gate Hospital board. He also
was a past board director of
the Lions Gate Hospital

This X-mas...

GRANT Spitz is the new
chairman of the North
Shore Health board.

Foundation. In 1998, Spitz
was appointed to the North
Shore Health Region’s
(NSHR) board.

. Spitz is a managing direc-
tor of the Vancouver office of
the executive search firm,
Korn-Ferry International.

Spitz will be health board
chairman for one year.

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Three other new board
appointees include John
McDiarmid, Robert (Bob)
Wizzel and Karen Muller.

McDiarmid is a director of
Montrose Realty
Corporation.

Muller has a nursing
degree and a masters in
Heaith Services Planning and
Administration.

Witzel is a chartered
accountant. He is one of two
vice-chairman of the NSHR
board. Witzel’s previous
work experience includes vice
president of the Vancouver
Stock Exchange and a senior
financial consultant to a cor-
poration in the hydro sector.

Health Minister Penny
Priddy made all the appoint-
ments.

Barbara Brett was reap-
pointed. She is a former exec-
utive director of Family
Services of Greater
Vancouver. Brett isa member
of the B.C. Review Board for
mentally challenged people
who are in conflict with the
law.

Other members of the
NSHR board include Judy
Ageson, Bill Bryden,
Maureen McKeon Holmes,
Michael Hoole (vice-chair-
man), Elizabeth Kirkwood,
Richard Lupton and Gene
Quan.

Board member Heather
Kelleher left her position fast
month because she moved
from the North Shore.

The North Shore Health
Region has a budget of $187
million.

Winter
training

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get used to it, it’s easy.” He
had other tips for the 20-plus
runners ready to tackle the
high-altitude training session:
when running downhill dig in
your toes a fittl: and run
slightly pigeon-toed. Uphill,
take shorter running steps.

Cressman has plenty of
experience at this. Before tak-
ing up his position at Grouse
Mountain he was a sales repre-
sentative for Alas Snow Shoes
— the same kind available for
rent by the Snowrunners, He
also has a competitive back-
ground in events ranging from
ultra-running to snowshoe
racing.

Which brings us to the cul-
mination of all these Thursday
night training sessions.

In March the mountain
will host the second annual
Dam Bigfoot Challenge which
is Vancouver's first endurance
snowshoc race. And many of
the Thursday night
Snowrunners will be taking
their marks at the start line.

Bur the race isn’t the only,
goal the Snowrunners are aim-
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“Those who want to can
make a beeline for the bar in
that direction,” said Cressman
after training last Thursday.

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