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IT'S PAINFUL AND CRIPPLING, with no certain’ cure.

But i in B.C. the more than 320,000 victims of the disease at ”

‘Yeast have better chances of partial relief than anywhere else

in Canada.

Vancouver's 20-year-old Ar-
thritis Centre at 895 West 10th is
the only facility of its kind in the
country and is at the leading edge
of arthritis treatment and research.
Its aim is to offer expert arthritis
care to every sufferer in the pro-
vince. But with ‘over 30,000 treat-
ments a year and an average of
five new patients cvery day, it fi-
nally ran out of space to do its job.

Soa very happy moment came
last, week for West Van's Mofly

” Murray, current president of the
B.C. Arthritis Society, when she
joined Lt. Governor Boh Rogers at
the sod-turning for the Centre's
hew $2 million wing, duc to be

» completed by mid-1989. All the

happier because almost the entirc

“ gost has already been covered,

thanks to the society” s vigorous
: fundraising campaign, with gov-

WAPPY MO MENT...Arthrtis, Society president Mh
$ and Lt; Gov. Bob Rogers gree society Iq aader Mery, Peck nt:

ernment joining the many private
sector donors. And for those 11
British Columbians in every 100 —
a surprising number of them

_ youngsters like six- -year-old patient
Laura Mackenroi — it was the
happiest news of the year.

“a ee!

IF YOU THINK all nuns are,
Roman Catholic, i iiving cloistered ,
lives and totally ignorant ofthe .
real world, drop by ; at St. Monica’s:
Anglican Church, Horseshoe Bay,
the day after tomorrow and meet

.. Visiting Sister Gabriel.

She belongs to the Community
,Of the Holy Spiri ‘an Anglican
“teaching order in New York that's

. very much in tune with the times,

Founded by a Canadian’ hun, it

started witha nursery school which

jing hundreds of Pruatcipaliiee.

tries — in making a

_ANSIGHTS. |

SISTER GABRIEL,..the |
wortd. °
uhas since grown to take students to
iuniversity entrance level. Although
‘teligigtts education is woven into —
the curticulum, the school — open

| to all races and creeds ~~ is‘
described as a veritable United Na-
tions in miniature.

‘Sister Gabricl was a teacher for
many ycars in Florida and the deep
South before joining the convent,
where she has taught English and
socials: She has a 8.A. degree and
has just retired as principal of the
convent's middle schaol (Grades
5- 8) i in order to work ona major.
revision of the curriculum, ‘

This. Tucsday (May 3) at St.
’ Monica’s she’s teading group
_ discussions on the meaning of ..
Seligion from 10 a.in.'to 3 p. my,
with everyone welcome. If you.
question what religion has to do
with today" 's real world, Sister
“Gabrict —‘ who's been there —
could have interesting new ,
answers:

‘

ofty” Murray (*) of POSTSCRIPT: ‘The homeless and &

hungry; teens in trouble with the
law; alcoholics and drug ig mais :

Hocth Store News, rounais 1382 as an

independent
1 Suburban newspaper and cuatifed under Schedule 114
“Paragraph Ill ol the Excise Tax Act, ts publisticd eac!
We and-Sueday by Notth Shore Free

bui/ we cannot ACCEDH afl

which my a stamped, :

fin ycar Red Shield appeal ..

real

esponsibility ‘for
unsolicited saatesia including manuscripts and pct i
Should be accompanied addtessed *..

battered v wives and kids; ss jail i in- /
mates; lonely rospital patients;/
impoverished families and single

mothers —~ “nobody is ever turned

away’’, runs the Salvation Army
motto. Think of it Monday/even-
ing when a neighbor, onc of North
Shore coordinator Gina’ Simpson's
volunteers, knocks on YOUR door
during the Sally Ann’s one- night. ,

a AL
‘mosphere being all- -important, a

nicely appropriate touchiat the’ Te- ;

cent meeting of the Asia Pacific

Initiative Advisory Committee was |

provided by Sincere Lam-Viu of
North Van. She entertained |
members with a recital on the
“Guzherig’' — the classical
Chinese table harp whose history

| sos back over 2,500 years All

former students, parents and staff
of Edmonds Elementary-Jonior

, Secondary in Burnaby — closing

its doors forever after 94 years —
arc invited to the final homecom- :

’ ing reunion, May 13-14, Call Carot

Creelman (522-8852, evenings) for
details ... And happy 6Ist sever /
sary wishes this Tuesday (May 3) re
to North Van's Maurice and Mar-
tha Hadley.

/

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