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‘Labor-endorsed and other pro-
gressive candidates registered some
New successes in Vancouver Island
and Interior centres in last Satur-
day’s municipal elections and
enerally held their own in lower
Mainland municipalities.

Major interest in the lower

Mainland was focussed on Bur-

Naby where the Burnaby Citizens
jation again entered a full
Slate headed by Lee Rankin, who

Was attempting to regain the

Mayoralty: lost for the BCA by

Tom Constable’s defeat in 1979.
In this election, however, Con-

Stable played a divisive role. Hav-

ot ing refused to carry out BCA policy

In office and broken with the
Organization, he ran for council as

_ an independent, following the pat-

tern of earlier candidates who won
Office through the BCA and then
Tepudiated it.

The division was apparent in the
results. The Burnaby Voters’
Association won six of the eight
Council seats. BCA incumbent
Doug Drummond did retain his
Seat, however. And Constable ran
Sixth to return to council.
- School board results paralleled
those of the council. Barry Jones
Tetained his seat for the BCA and
the BVA took the other six seats.
Only 28 votes separated the BVA’s
Barbara Spitz and the BCA’s
Tunner-up, Anne Bailey, who is
Seeking a recount.

In North Vancouver District, the
Organized campaign to defeat pro-
8ressive alderman Emie Crist by

LORRAINE HOCKING . . . REAL
incumbent re-elected near top
of school board poll.

running former alderman Marilyn
Baker acquired a new dimension
with the entry into the contest of
Betty Griffin, who earned con-
siderable support earlier in the year
by challenging Hooker Chemical’s
assessment.

Unable to defend their
developer-oriented policies which
are degrading the district or to
answer Griffin’s charges that adop-
tion of Option D had cost
homeowners heavily in taxes, in-
cumbents resorted to a vicious red-
bating campaign extending to
reproduction as an advertisment in
the North Shore News of a page
from the municipal affairs supple-°

‘ment of the Pacific Tribune.

Voters rejected the smear cam-
paign as a municipal version of
Social Credit’s ‘‘dirty tricks’, re-
electing Crist in second place,
bringing Griffin to within 93 votes
of unseating alderman John Lakes,
an assessment lawyer and former
board of revision member, and
defeating incumbent alderman

In North Vancouver City, two
newcomers, Richard Blackburn
and Greg Richmond, made a good
showing in their first bid for alder-
manic office but fell far short of
election.

Coquitlam was another
municipality where the aldermanic
contest held particular interest.
There Gloria Levi, wife of NDP
MLA Norman Levi, won a council
seat, with school board chairper-
son Eunice Parker, making her
first bid for aldemanic office, as

runner-up only 137 votes behind

her,

°°" In Richmond, ' the Independent

NDF elected four of its five alder-
manic candidates — three in-
cumbents, Ernie Novakowski, Bob
McMath and Harold Steeves, and
a newcomer, Greg Halsey-Brandt

_— with Alan Hall as runner-up.

The outcome in Delta followed a

similar pattern. Labor-endorsed _

Mayor Ernie Burnett was returned
over Lois Jackson and three of six
Cit-a-Del. candidates, incumbents
Beth Johnson, Karl Moser and
Beth Johnson, were elected.
Elsewhere in the lower

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| Labor wins Interior, Island seats

“al \

KEVIN NEISH ... first bid for
Fernie council successful.

mainland, Wes Janzen won a seat
on New Westminster council, and
in -neighboring Port Coquitlam,
Len Traboulay, a teacher, took the
mayoralty over John Keryluk by a
small margin. For a number of
years as an alderman Traboulay
had sought and received the en-
dorsement of New. Westminster
‘ Labor Council, but when he made
a belated application this year -he

. had to be informed that the council:

already had endorsed his oppon-
ent. Labor-endorsed alderman Mi-
chael Gates also won re-election.
In Port Moody, although only
Johathan Taylor, who won a
school board seat over incumbent
William Johnstone, was endorsed
by labor, mayor Ian Young blamed
his defeat and that of alderman
Flynn Marr oncouncil’s decision to
contract out the city’s garbage col-
‘lection to a private company.

Bernice Gehring was elected to
council in Maple Ridge, but in Sur-
rey lack of unity among progress-
ives, with NDP members and trade

_ unionists identified with opposing

slates, contributed to the Surrey
Municipal Electors’ sweep.
Although veteran labor alder-
man George McKnight fell 265
votes short of taking the Port
Alberni.mayoralty, another labor-
endorsed candidate, Lennart
Nelson, won a council seat, Gary
Swann was re-elected to school

Labor-endorsed Dan William- -
-. son won one of three council seats > ~
on Langley District council and ©

board, Rosemary Buchan topped
the poll for the city’s trustees, and
Mark Mosher was re-elected to the
regional district. In Nanaimo
labor-endorsed Wilfred Brodrick
won a council seat.

Up island, progressive can-
didates made a clean sweep of
Courtenay school board seats, Bill

‘Wilson of the united Native Na-

tions winning the Comox seat, Bob
McQuillan the Courtenay seat, and
Wayne Bradley the Rural Area C
seat in which he defeated school
board chairperson Kay Jancowski.
They also took two regional district
seats, Bill Bremner, a TWU
member, being elected for Area A,
and Jim Egan, a retired en-
vironmentalist, for Area B. :
Progressive candidates in Alert
Bay had no trouble winning re-
election. Gil Popovich was given
ion again as mayor and
Norman Sumner was re-elected to
the one council seat.
In the Interior, victories were

won in Fernie, where Kevin Neish,

making his first bid for office, won
a council seat; in Nelson, where
labor-endorsed Stan Grill headed
the aldermanic poll; and in

_ Castlegar where Doug McKimmon

was elected alderman.

Reg Walters, contesting a coun-
cil seat in Salmon Arm, ran fifth in
a field of eight, and Bert Nilsson,

‘who narrowly missed election in

Vernon last year, ran sixth in a field
ofnine

And in Trail, Bob Cacchione
won one of two school board seats.

ERNIE CRIST ...
North Vancouver District coun-
cil.

returned to

Greater
Vancouver
vote count

* Star following name denotes labor-endorsed

. Greg Richmond *

Voter turnout: 23 percent

candidate,
x Cross preceding name d b
BURNABY
Mayor
1, William Lewarne 17,059
2. Lee Rankin* 11,647
Council
Elect 8 (two years)
1. xDonald Brown 14,911
2. xAlan Emmott 13,619
3. xVictor Stusiak 13,168
4. xDoreen Lawson 12,733
5. Douglas Drummond* 11,990
6. Thomas Constable 11,937
7. George McLean 9,965
8. Egon Nikolai 9,443
| 9. Robert Davies 9,143
10. Barry Butler 9,070
11. Derek Corrigan* 8,799
12. John Motuik® °* 8,728
13. Paul Bjarnason* 8,711
14. Gordon Smith® 8,504
15. Elsie Dean* 8,441
16. Gayle Gavin* 7,654
17. Tom Lalonde* 6,862
18. Jean-Pierre Daem 5,125
19. Kenneth Schmidt 4,396
20, Richard Bennett 3,269
21. Steve Zeswick 2,049
School Board
Elect 7 (two years)
1. xGary Begin 15,206
2. xBarry Jones* 13,092
3. Sheila Veitch 12,815
’ 4, xAudrey Kenny 12,770
5. xClifford Murnane 12,606
6. Carole Keddy 11,979
7, Barbara Spitz 11,366
8. Anne Bailey* 11,338
9. Anne Smith* 11,217
10. Rosemary Rawnsley 10,372
11. Frank Boden* 10,055
12. Maurits Mann* 9,936
13. Linda Chobotuck* 9,586
14. Pamela Turner* 8,589
Voter turnout: 39 percent.
COQUITLAM
Mayor
1. xJames Tonn 8,156
2. John Ballard 1,407
Council
Elect 3 (two years)
1, xLeslie Garrison 5,641
2. William Henke 4,044
3. Gloria Levi* 3,988
4. Eunice Parker* 3,851
5. Robert Donnelly* 3,831
6. xRaymond Mitchuk 3,773
School Board
Elect 2 (two. years)
1. William Burnell — acclamation
2. Lorna Morford * — acclamation
Voter turnout: 37 percent
NORTH VANCOUVER CITY
Mayor
xJohn Loucks (acclamation)
Council
Elect 6 (two years)
1. xStella Jo Dean 2,804
2. xFrank Marcino 2,392
3. xBill Sorenson 2,239
4. xGary Payne 2,223
5. xElko Kroon 2,024
6. xRalph Hall 1,973
7. Dana Taylor 1,870
8. Ernest Sarsfield 1,669
9. Richard Blackburn* 1,593
0. Roderick Clark 1,524
1

1,369

NORTH VANCOUVER DISTRICT

¢ Council
Th ron e spe ech atte mpt to con vo te rs 1 eee eae ee 7,313
; 2. xErnie Crist* 5,780
fae 2 : 3. xJohn Lakes 5,192
. The government apparently ment is doing something. _ of training programs for women. 4. Betty Griffin 5,099
pone pombe eratiecs val -scnnne to consult its eco- _ The barrage of criticism with All of this is less than the former Bune 290
Was not so much the extent to nomic advisers, most of whom which its proposals for rehabili- NDP government implemented Voter turnout: 37.6 percent
Which the Social Credit govern- don’t know where they are going _ tating existing housing, providing —_uringits three yearsin office, Qs RICHMOND
Ment is “out of touch with the _ either, and hope that markets will _ incentives to builders and enabl- _ly to see it dismantled when Social Mayer
Teal problems of the province,” _ improve. ing first time homeowners to _ Credit returned to power. 1. xGilbert Blair 17,303
as NDP leader Dave Barrett put Jn the meantime, unemployed rent to own’ is proof that peo- While cabinet ministers dodg- 2 Pe BS: ae aot
it, but its desire to gloss over prob- © oodworkers oe exercise te: ple have read the fine print. - ed the bricks, Bennett could only ap eae
lems of which it is well aware’ sbearie just.as human resources’ No government, andespecially _ field them after falling back on 1. xCorisand Percival-Smith 11,573
While appearing to deal’ with  frinister GraceMcCarthyisdoing  On€ Which opposed inclusion of the claim of last resort —hehad |} 7: semeNowlowst fee
them. After all, the Social Credit in cutting down welfare aid. Ben- Omens rights in the proposed been misquoted. ‘ 4: aro Stevs* 11383
Machine is being oiled with @ nett will have a better idea of this ANALYSIS Hubert Meet D0
fund-raising drive for the election when woodworkers from Van- Se zs Shahe aghien ats ie
Which may come within months. COUVES reappoint sooee tine Charter of Rights and only re- For labor, the reference to io) ececiath ng
Premier Bill Bennett is con- outside the legis "versed itself under pressure, can ‘wage restraint’? in the throne 11. A. G. Bovey "7,864
Stantly reminding his audiences The government knows too, afford to ignore the issue. speech has an ominous meaning iseiguro penal Ay
Ow much British Columbia’s — that housing has become a night- Speaking to the Social Credit _in light of the fact that govern- 14, Bernard Peterson _- 6,454
€conomy depends on the forest mare for thousands of families, Women’s Auxiliary convention ment employees will be negotiat- Genera es
Industry, so he need look no far- through their inability to find ac-__Jast week, Bennett rashly talked _ing new contracts next year to re- 17. Kenneth Campbell 4,938
ther than finance minister Hugh commodation at rents they caM about making ‘“‘equal pay for place the three-year agreement. Scheel Beara
is’ reports ondeclining forest afford, ortorefinancetheirmort- —_ work of equal value” the corner-__ they concluded for an increase of huge ee aka
Tevenues-to know how closures _ gages at high interest rates. stone of the government’s policy. _ eight percent each year. 2. aTilly Maxreiter 11,204
and layoffs are deepening the un- — What Bennett offered in the But the cornerstone was miss- And returning to the anticipat- eaucpemtaaad How
€mployment crisis. throne speech was not aprogram —_ing from the throne speech. So _ed election, the throne speech re- 5. xBrian Collins* 10,353
If he has any plans for creating _ for large scale subsidized housing — weremostofthebricks,whichthe _ fers to “Jegislation to improve the Pee ina
jobs, however they were not re-__ that would put the forest industry NDP were verbally tossing at accuracy and timeliness of voters’ a sAnneHutchinont sgh
flected in the throne speech, back to work and relieve the — government benches this week as lists and to streamline other as- | | ,¢, ScmidinsNighscales pe
Which contained no more than housingshortage—itwasaseries they criticized the promise of a _ pects of election administration.” 11. Gordon McKay em
the promise of 5,000new jobsasa of proposals designed to create deputy minister forwomeninthe No doubt Grace McCarthy will ib. Pree Dida ee
Tesult of the northeastern coal the impression that the govern- labor ministry and vaguemention _ have another finger in this. Voter turnout: 47 percent

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