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‘The church whose story

is a story of West Van .

FURNITURE AND THE FAIT H share a common i

background in that historic West Van building i in Dun- j

darave which, until a year or
picturesque ‘*Maple Shop’’.

Originally known as: Dundarave
Hall, a centre for the then tiny
> community, it was the seenp, in:
! April 1913, of a'service cofducted |
by Bishop dePencier for 43 West :
Van Anglicans which Spurred them |
— after nonths of meeting in
' private homes — to offically

launch the parish of St. Stephen's. |

: This Sunday, April 10, West. Van's

first Anglican’ church, just one
year younger ‘than the municipali- !
ty, proudly, marks its 75th anniver-
sary.

The men ‘of that carly parish
"were enthusiastic carpenters. By -
1914 they had built its original hall

on the east side of 22nd at Fulton,

where Services were held for the

. next {} years until the first ‘*pro-

per’*church was erected on the,
same site in 1925. Meanwhile, in
1920 — anxious to attract a badly
needed permanent priest and
“strapped for cash — they also built
“with their own hands the church's.
“fi rst rectory: They | were rewarded

YMPATHY ry MUST
Younger, ‘the North
trying, to. persuade : he

“in tempting to pesos”
a -Molerated.

two ago, honised Hank Sager s

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by the aytival the following year of

Rev. JP. Dingle, the first of their!’

six re dent’ rectors to daic.

Tie 50s/brought propésals for a
new stone building, later modified
jn favor of, a more contemporary

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structure. “After seven vears of
negotiations, planning and a fand
swap with the municipality, to-

_day's clegantly madernistic church
on the west side of 22nd at Gardon

held its first service.on Ciood Fri-
day 1968,

This, in briefest form, is the
story that will be celebrated there:
Sunday by Archhishop Douglas |.
Hambidge, Rev. Ed Wallace (now

retired after 18 years as rector) and
: foe moo,

c EL EBRATING ames “ISTH,,.Archhishop Douglas Yambidre and |

, retiring rector Rev. Ed Wallace.

be, athleen Bell. i
Vanc uver mother who -is:
er year-old. daughter | to

The 38-yeur-old | woman stanpéa daughter Francesca °
“Acosta to.a bed for: ‘almost ¢ two days after. abducting
her: from a Vancouver street. corner where she had been ;

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a capacity congregation. But the
St. Stephen's story is more than
the story of a single church and 3
single denomination. It's alsoa
story of West Van itself and it's
delightfully told by Gerald Prevost
in Our First 75 Years’, a lavishly
iNustrated book, published by che
parish, which any true blooded '
Tiddleycovian —-: Anglican,
churchyoer ar neither —~- will en-
joy.

Happy birthday, St. Stephen's!

a jt ee
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_ A LUCRATIVE SOURCE of
funds for good causes will be back
again shortly with the ending of
the freeze on charity casinos im-,
posed by Victoria-a couple of years
ago. The several casino nights per
year which a charity may sponsor
can bring it. thousands of fast
bucks — with everyone having fun:
* “donating*’ and the professional
casino company doing all the v

>, work. North Shore charities which
missed out pricr to the freeze,
vould beismart to climb on this

. ~miQneywagon without delay by Bp-
pi; ng to the Public Gaming |”
Branch, 848 Couriney Street),

le? aria vaw. IC4, i

POSTSCRIP' TSA sth famiigh figuye
© Coshoysands of tube-gazezs wa
the fashion show coinmeratcr/a au.
this morning's gala opening of Cap
College's new retail mangement -
studio, “Danger Bay!
nelly’ Rhodes, who rece tly” imoved
from L.A. to his new home i in’:
Deep Cove, welcomed the! assign
ment — ‘stressing § att, he? V
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Shore community ... Congrats to
“local girl’’ Mudge Aalto. who at-
tended Hollyburn, Inglewood and
West Van High, and got her first
‘job as a junior assistant at West
Van Library. phe’ wenl on to ;
library posts ih Ontario, a Library
Science degree,and heading the — /
Greater Victoria Public Library.
Now she hag just started her big- /- >
gest job yeti— director of Van-
couver Public Library ...dn West |
Van this Friday,/April 8, David
Chown takes a constructive Nest at
the sad and sensitive subject“of
Dying with Dignity’. The 7:30
p.m. symposium, sponsored by’ the
North ahd West Van’ Soroptimists,
is being’ held at Klee Wyck, 2
Keith Road just’ bast of Wood.
croft, phone 922-1119... And
happy birthday today, April 6. to -
Rey. Ray Murrin, rector of St.
Jobyi' s Anglican Church, North

. Man.

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WRIGHT OR, WRONG: Paths
that have no obstaeles on them
also lead nowhere.

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