Si Cn Ee ee TOP LEFT: Alderman-elect Bruce Eriksen talks to reporters after early polls showed him on his way to a council seat. TOP RIGHT: Alderman Harry Rankin, the poll-topper again, addresses a jubilant COPE victory party. TOP CENTRE: Alderman-elect Bruce Yorke joins applause as his name first ap- pears on the list of would-be councillors — where It stayed all night. BOTTOM CENTRE: New parks commissioners Patricia Wilson and Libby Davies celebrate with fellow candidates Don Jang (I) and Doug Laalo. BOTTOM: COPE school trustees, who were swept by voters to a school board major- ity, attend the last meeting of the outgoing NPA board. From left, Gary Onstad, Wes Knapp, Mike \ O'Neill, Phillip Rankin and Pauline Weinstein. = PACIFIC TRIBUNE—NOV. 21, 1980—Page 2 _ B.C. vote mixed Continued from page 1 Rankin indicated that COPE would strive for maximum co- operation with mayor Harcourt, particularly around the ward issue and housing. He called on the new council to immediately commit $3 million for housing in the 1981 budget. In other B.C. centres labor had mixed results; in Saturday’s municipal vote. Following is a brief round up of provincial results: KAMLOOPS — The Kamloops and District Labor council played its largest ever role in a civic cam- paign this year and can count suc- cesses on city council and school board. Four KLC endorsed candidates, Howard Dack, Cliff Branchlower, Dianne Kerr and Helen Kerr and Kenna Cartwright were elected to council to form a solid progressive block opposing mayor Mike Latta and four right wing aldermen. Two labor endorsed candidates were also elected to school board, Doug Gavin and CUPE member Tom Balsam. NANAIMO — There were set- - backs for labor this year in Nanaimo with the loss of popular reform aldermen Nelson Allen and Ada Howden. Although the reform wing on council will be con- siderably smaller, Nanaimo voters did send a rebuff to developer mayor Frank Key and his right wing supporters by solidly defeating a move to dismantle the city’s ward system. The ward system was a convincing winner in a plebiscite vote. Two progressives were elected to the new school board. PRINCE RUPERT — There was more mixed success in the Nor- thwest with the election to Rupert city council of Dan Millar, but the narrow defeat of labor alderman Mike Darnell. In a tight four way race for three seats, Darnell missed by only 35 votes. The Darnell com- mittee has reportedly called for a recount. PORT ALBERNI — Longtime labor alderman George McKnight finally has his longtime ally Walter Behn, president of the Alberni Labor Council, on city council with him. With three to be elected, Behn topped the poll. VERNON — The last minute challenge from a local businessman to Vernon labor council secretary Bert Nilsson, who had been declared elected by acclamation, was clearly a well designed move. Business got behind its candidates and edged out Nilsson from elec- tion, although he saw his vote i crease by 50 percent over a yeal ago. COMOX — In Courtenay school district 71, progressive call- didate Wayne Bradley came just nine votes shy of election. , Elsewhere in the Lower Main- land, North Vancouver district veteran school trustee Dorothy Lynas once again finished at the top of the poll. Sheis joined by run- ning mate on the North Vancouver Voters Association slate Crawford Kiliam. Lynas told the Tribune this week that she considers the election of NOVVA candidate Phillip Joe, chief of the Squamish Indian band, to the North Vancouver city board to be most significant. The right wing ‘‘concerned citizens” group on the north shore contested every seat but were soundly beaten. In New Westminster labor coun- cil officer and carpenters union of- ficial Tom Baker was elected to the top of the poll, although fellow labor candidate Wes Janzen fell 15 votes shy of beating Tory Mal Hughes. Results in Surrey must have disappointed the Citizens for A Better Surrey slate of NDPers who attempted to swing an NDP vote to their side. Two NDPers were elected, but for the liberal-oriented Surrey Municipal Electors (SME). The CBS candidates were well off the pace. The Surrey Alternative Move- ment (SAM), however, continued to see its vote rise as its two school candidates, Steve Gidora and Vi Swann, both polled over 4,000 votes. SAM’s aldermanic candi- date Jo Arland polled a respectable vote and finished among the CBS candidates. The results of the Nov. 15 Vancouver civic elections dem- onstrate clearly that the voters want new policies at city hall. They want a shift away from priorities for developers to pri- orities for people. That’s why they elected Harcourt as mayor and three COPE aldermen. ae The election proved that civic politicians can’t forever ignore the needs of people and expect to get away with it. For the NPA the day of reckoning has come, as it has for TEAM which went along with the NPA more often than not. In the elections to the school board, the demand for changed policies and priorities was even stronger. Here COPE elected five and won a clear majority COPE has only two of the seven seats on the parks board but you can be sure that the board will now be under heavy pressure to change its policies. The victory of Mike Har- Watch COPE grow court and the impressive gains by COPE are the direct result of the fact that the major reform forces in the city — COPE, the NDP, the trade union move- ment and community groups all got actively involved in the cam- paign. Had there been unity and a working arrangement among all these groups, the gains would have been even greater. It was unfortunate, for example, that although COPE supported Mike Harcourt and called for unity, he did not reciprocate. COPE, after 12 years of un- ceasing campaigning on people issues, day in and day out, in be- tween elections as well asat elec-. tion time, has now emerged as a major force in Vancouver civic politics. It’s breathing down the necks of the NPA. TEAM has all but been eliminated. Popular sentiment is now for reform. I would personally like to thank all who voted for me and for the COPE slate and the hun- dreds of people who worked so hard in the campaign. Your ef- forts brought significant-gains. There’s light at the end of the tunnel. This is only the begin- ning! Watch us grow! Together we'll make Vancouver a city of which we can all be proud.