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BURNABY

Mayor

1, Dave Mercier 12,357
———Elected— — —

2. Tom Constable* 8,823
Council

1. Allan Emmott 11,483

2. Don Brown 11,271

3. Vic Stusiak 10,789

4. Doreen Lawson 10,571

5. Bill Lewarne 10,458

6. Fred Randall* 9,257

7. Doug Drummond* 9,147

8. Gerry Ast* 8,934

——-—Elected—— —

12. Russ Hicks* 7,608
13. Derek Corrigan* 7,417
14. Paul Bjarnason* 6,713
18. Frank Boden* 6,152
16. Celeste Redmond* 6,119
School Board

1. Gary Begin 11,454

2. Charles Archibald 10,925

3. Cliff Murnane 10,363

4. Tom Peach 9,779

5. Barry Jones* 9,558

6. Elsie Dean* 9,283

7. Audrey Kenney 8,939

———Elected— — —

9. Anne Bailey* 8,038
10. Maurits Mann* 7,503
11. Ginger Bell* 7,120
12. Ardell Brophy* 7,084
13. Hans Holst* 6,953
14. Liz Din* 6,657

COQUITLAM
Council

1. John Parkes 2,653

2. Les Garrison 2,520

3. Ray Mitchuk . 2,136

— ——Elected— — —

5. Larry Whaley* 1,508
School Board :

1. Eunice Parker* 2,675

2. Lorna Morford* 2,560

NORTH VAN DISTRICT
Council

1. Ernie Crist* 4,409

2. Gordon Rose 4,202

3. John Lakes 4,008

RICHMOND
Council

1. Harold Steves* 6,350
2. Irene Vennard 6,068
3. Ernie Novakowski* 6,025
4. C. Percival-Smith 5,943
5. Kichi Kumagai 5,850

6. Ted Youngberg. 5,787

7. Bob McMath 5,334
8. Doug Sandberg* 5,268
Il, GH, 7 —-—Elected— — —
pos lalsey-Brant* 4,428

* Gary Worobec* 3,883
13. Chan Deol* 3,465
School Board

1. Ken Williams 6,964
2. Alex Waterton 6,880
. Lorraine Hocking* 6,345
S Tilly Marxreiter 6,226

- Bryan Collins* 6,228
3 Ann Hutchinson* 6,056
> R. Smith 3 5,594
SURREY
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1. Don Ross 8,559
2: Rita ———Elected———

3 Johnston 6,959

» Art Thornhill 2,223
Council
> BillFomich 8,152
2 Hugh Buckley 7,560
* Bob Jacobs 7,532
——-—Elected— — —

8. Wilf Lennox* 2,593
10. Rob White* 1,780
11. Ken Rouble» 1,231
Couneit — One-year seat

» Ed Mckitka 4,134
Schoo} Board

1. Louise Sorenson 8,645

5 Rita Bedard 7,090
» Peter Jmaetf 6,942

5 ——-—Elected—— —

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Labor gains in municipal vote

Darnell, Crist elected
in Rupert, North Van

“People wanted a change’’ was
the phrase most often heard from
the long list of defeated incumbents
in last Saturday’s municipal elec-
tions throughout B.C. And the
desire for change was emphatically
demonstrated with 15 mayors and
30 aldermen losing their seats to
challengers.

In most cases however the
changes were for the better, as the
labor and progressive movement
held on to its own positions and
went on to score a number of
strategic breakthroughs in
municipal politics, particularly in
North Vancouver and Prince
Rupert. —

The breakthrough in Prince
Rupert came with the election of
United Fishermen and Allied
Workers Union northern represen-
tative Mike Darnell to a one year
aldermanic seat on Prince Rupert
city council. Darnell beat four other
candidates to take the seat.

Darnell had led a vigorous cam-
paign since the summer months
against unemployment and cut-
backs in unemployment insurance,
each of which have hit the northern
community particularly hard, and
the themes spilled over into the
municipal campaign.

Darnell had broad community
backing and a weighty trade union
support committee based on the
Prince Rupert Labor Council and

the Pulp and Paper Workers of
Canada.

The other key breakthrough was
in North Vancouver District where
shipyard worker and civic activist
Ernie Crist finally made it onto
District council, and in a big way,
coming at the head of the alder-
manic poll, well in front of two in-
cumbents.

Crist attributed his victory to the
hard work he ‘had put into the cam-
paign, a campaign which began six
years ago and has never really stop-
ped. He has knocked on over
16,000 doors in the District.

Saturday night was the fruits of
his labor as he polled strong sup-
port from all parts of the District.
With the solid support of communi-
ty organizations and the tabor
movement, Crist says he received a
“‘solid worker’s vote,’’ plus a good
number of votes from middle class
voters who didn’t necessarily agree
with his politics but ‘‘considered me
honest, sincere and a hard worker.”’

“T had a unique campaign,’ a
smiling Crist, assured the Tribune
this week, ‘‘And you can be sure
that I will be a unique alderman in
North Vancouver District.’’

Crist has his priorities laid out:
controls on development and a
community plan, improved transit
and rapid transit, and tax reform.
They are issues he will be pressing
“*as soon as I take my seat.”’

McKnight at top of poll

Port Alberni alderman George
McKnight has been returned to
council in his familiar position at
the top of the poll. McKnight’s
more than 2,000 votes easily out-
distanced all other contenders to
give the [WA mill worker a seventh
term as labor spokesman on city
council. |

Two others endorsed by the
Alberni Labor Council, CUPE
president Bill Young and CPU vice-

GEORGE McKNIGHT

The resurgence of the right wing
Burnaby Voters Association to cap-
ture six of nine council seats and
five of seven school board positions
was a ‘‘bitter disappointment” to
the campaign workers for the labor
backed Burnaby Citizens’ Associa-
tion, but the result was not unex-

ected.
F Slate votes for either the BVA or
the BCA were evident in the coun-
ting, and the BCA slate suffered
under the leadership of mayor Tom
Constable who went down to a per-
sonal defeat to the BVA’s Dave

Mercier.

Constable’s departure from BCA °

policy on key issues cost the BCA
heavily, losing support even In some
traditional BCA strongholds in

president Len Nelson fell short of
election.

McKnight’s victory was _ par-
ticularly significant because of the
concerted campaign orchestrated by
the Alberni establishment to unseat
him. One aldermanic candidate,
Petronella Nalleweg, devoted her
entire campaign to attacking
McKnight, charging that he would
Overtax industry and cause
unemployment.

As in previous years, McKnight
focused on the taxation issue, poin-
ting out that Alberni homeowners
pay a total of 111 mills on schools
and civic taxes, one of the highest
rates in the province, despite the
enormous industrial wealth concen-
trated in the MacMillan Bloedel
operations which dominate the in-
dustrial city.

A key part of McKnight’s cam-
paign was the provincial cabinet
decision to lower the taxable value
of machinery — a giant gift to
MacBlo and other heavy industry.
The shift in taxation would hike
residential school taxes in Alberni
by seven percent, without spending
a penny more on education, he
argued.

Nalleweg finished dead last with

Newly elected Prince Kupert alderman Mike Darnell looks over the

press clippings from the spirited campaign he and supporters wag-
ed in the north coast city. He captured the only one-year term seat

up for election.

Sean Griffin photo

School board elections
rebuff to right wing

A firm rebuff to the most strident
right wing forces in education was

the story of Saturday’s school.

board elections.

Without exception, progressive
school board trustees were returned
to office in the local elections, while
in Langley, centre of the ultra-right
fundamentalist, trend in education,
all three right wing incumbents up
for election went down to defeat.

“It’s a real repudiation by the
voters, and a welcome one,’’ Co-
quitlam school trustee Eunice
Parker said of the Langley vote.

Parker, together with her running
mate Lorna Morford on the
Association of Coquitlam Electors
slate, was easily re-elected to the
Coquitlam Board. Morford was
elected for the first time.

In Richmond, Richmond Elec-
tors Action League trustee Lorraine
Hocking was, re-elected by a
substantial margin, finishing third

less than 400 votes.

North Burnaby. The low voter tur-
nout of 30 percent was another sign
of problems for the BCA.

In spite of the setback in losing
the majority on council, the BCA
re-elected three incumbent alder-
man, Fred Randall, Doug Drum-
mond and Gerry Ast, and re-elected
its two incumbent trustees, Elsie
Dean and Barry: Jones.

Elsewhere in the province, the

‘labor movement lost its traditional

seat on Victoria City Council, for
years held by labor council
secretary Larry Ryan. Labor Coun-
cil president John Shields attempted
to replace the retiring Ryan, but
ended up in the runner’s up spot,
shy of election. Former NDP
federal candidate Gretchin Brewin

\

did secure election, however, with
active support from the labor move-
ment. :

In Vernon, Vernon Labor Coun-
cil secretary Bert Nilsson ran <
strong campaign for council, but
finished seventh with three to be
elected. Trail steelworker Elmer
Pontius came third in a contest for
a single aldermanic seat in that in-
terior city.

Other labor endorsed candidates
in the Lower Mainland fared well as
the three Richmond Independent
New Democrats, Harold Steves,
Doug Sandberg and Ernie
Novakowski were all re-elected, and
New Westminster alderman Joe
Francis was returned.

Hocking’s strong showing, plus
the election of two members of the
Richmond Independent New
Democrats, Bryan Collins and
Ann Hutchinson, will change the
complexion of the Richmond board
which has leaned heavily to the
right.

And in North Vancouver, the
noisy right wing campaign of the
so-called ‘‘concerned citizens,”’
themselves patterned after the
Langley school board, also met de-
cisive defeat, as all three incumb-
ents endorsed by the . North
Vancouver Voters’ Association
(NOVA), Frank Warburten, Verna
Smelovsky, Don Burbidge were
returned by comfortable margins.
Another. NOVA. candidate
Margaret Jessup took the fourth
open spot, leading the poll in North
Van city.

In Burnaby, the Burnaby
Citizens’ Association failed to
regain its majority on the board,
but its two incumbents Elsie Dear
and Barry Jones were handily re-
elected.

The Burnaby Voters Association
actually strengthened it’s hold on
the board, but-have attributed the
victory to the general swing to the

_BVA slate. The BVA school board

candidates did very little to disting-
uish their stand on education issues.

The Langley vote saw three in-
cumbents, Kenneth Robertson,
Lorne Maluorno and Brian
Westwood, formerly the chairman
of the board, all decisively beaten.
And in Langley city, in the widely
publicized contest for a single seat,
Dr. Robert Thompson, the fun-
damentalist head of Western Trini-
ty College, also was defeated.

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