LONG-TERM BEDS THE HOLDUP

Lions Gate Hospital's 1,800-long elective surgery waiting list could be eliminated within a year, says the presi- dent of the North and West Vancouver Hospital Society.

But this can’t happen until long-term care patients currently occupying acute

care hospital beds are moved, president Ken Bruce

told the annual hospital society mecting last Wed- nesday.

Other reasons for the

waiting list are the difficulty of getting experienced nurses, especially in the summer. and the difficulty tn

bringing together the patient. surgeon, anesthetist, general prac

tioner and a hospital bed. all at short notice, Bruce said The elective surgery list as around | SOO right now, the highest oon Some

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weather

WEDNESDAY: Cloudy with sunny intervals. Cooler

THURSDAY: Cloudy. A few showers.

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classes yesterds:

Second at Ross Road this year

By PAT RICH

Stadents at Ross Road Elementary School returned to to find vandals had turn- ed their library into a ruinous mess of char-

red books and melted

equipment.

And the incident was made even more tragic by the fact the school was still recovering from a blaze in February that gutted two classrooms.

A North Vancouver District Fire Department spokesman said the fire that destroyed most of the books in the libary was reported at Sa.m. Saturday morning.

He said a neighbor reported seeing smoke com ing from the hbrary building which 1s on the west side of the school at 2875 Bushnell Place

Fire fighters arnved and manapged to contain the fire inthe bbrary although there was some damage to the ad yountng classrooms

Most of the books ino the libary were cither destroyed or badly damaged Equip ment stored tn the room was also damaged and stacks of chairs were melted by the

heat of the blazac

No estimate of the daniage

has yet been calle ulated

The spokesman said the fire was “deliberately set through vandahsm " and the North RCMP

describe ito as a “suspicious fire

Vancouver

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