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Mary, Mary Quite Contrary
How does your garden grow?

BY LAYNE CHRISTENSEN,
Community Reporter

THE nursery rhyme has a special
meaning for the volunteer planners of
Queen ‘Mary Schooi's long-awaited
community garden.

Members of the Queen Mary Parent
Advisory Council planted the seed of an idea
for a garden 1% years ago.

They'll see it blossom tomorrow, June. I.

when the community. turns out for the offi-
cial ground breaking.
_ Over the next two years, the grassy boule-
vard at Chesterfield Avenue and West Keith
Road will-be developed for school and com-
munity use.

The City of North Vancouver donated the
'100- -square-yard (84 sq.m) plot adjacent to

. the school grounds and has pledged up to
$10,000 in grants to help fund the communi-
ty garden, said Queen Mary Parent Advisory
Council president James Knowles.

.. Support for the garden was gained from
the North Vancouver Optimist Club, which
donated $5,000 and North Shore Credit

KENNETH Griffiths: has: ‘been honored for his tong.
time service with ‘the West. Vancouver SPCA. hy

Union. which donated $2,000. Orchard trees
will come from Dykhof Nurseries and the
money for a bench from The Canadian
Daughter's League.

The garden will be designed with input
from school children, teachers, parents and
the community at large, said Knowles.

Native plants to attract birds and butter-
flies, a gazebo, benches and community
plots are some of the features being dis-
cussed.

“The teachers are excited about building
garden projects into curriculums for science,
nature and art studies,” said school principal
Mary Brewer. “And the children will play a
part in saying what they would like to have
there.”

The community is welcome to attend the
ground-breaking tomorrow at 10 a.m.

Volunteers are asked to wear work gloves
and bring a rake or shovel to help in the
building of compost boxes and garden paths.

The event is to take place rain or shine

Phone Garth McSween at 985-4755 jor
more information about the community gar-
den project.

QUEEN Mary students plant a tree. It
will soon be joined by others in the
new community garden.

BY LAYNE CHRISTENSEN
Community Reporter

KENNETH Griffiths’ lat-
: -est honor evens the score
_ with his wife Joyce.

_ The, animal lover has
received the SPCA’s 1996
’ Humanitarian’ award for the
: West Vancouver - branch.
: “ Goyce is a'°92 winner.) -
--zThe His and Hers:plaques
“hang: side by side: in the
. ‘office of the couple's lower
' British _ Properties home.
-And though the awards may
“promote'a spirit of competi-
tion, there’s no question that
the Griffiths are in this
together. ;
Joyce began volunteering
_with the West Yan SPCA in
"1972. ‘Kenneth joined the
~ board of directors ‘in’ 1980,

after retiring from the com-..
mercial printing industry. He :

was president from 1985 to
1991 and again in 1995 and
1996 before retiring from
the volunteer post: ‘last
February. Both have dedicat-
ed countless hours over the
years to build. the West
Vancouver SPCA into a
model for other shelters. »

Of their dedication to ani- |

mal welfare in their commu-
nity, Sylvia Zyila, director of

fundraising for B.C.’SPCA ;
“they are the West *

says
Vancouver SPCA.”

The West Van. shelter,

jocated southeast of the
playing fields at Ambleside
Park, has always enjoyed
financial support from ‘the

community. According to .

Zylla, it was Kenneth who

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SPCA honors humanitarian

WEST VANCOUVER
WEST Vancouver
Community Day kicks
off at 10 a.m. tomorow,
June |, with a parade that
starts at Ambleside and
makes its way along
Marine Drive. Floats full
of merry revelers will
end up at the West
Vancouver rec centre at
21st and Gordon, where
dance troupes, bands and
street entertainers.are
scheduled to perform
until 4 p.m.

Perennial festival
favorites include the beer
garden for adults and car-
nival games for kids.
New this year are the
Jam Sandwich skate-
board and in-line skate -
activities for teens. The
events take place at the
rec centre tennis courts.

DELBROOK
JIM Galeze (1915 vin-
tage North Vancouver
resident) thanks North |
Shore Historical Society
president Rey Pallant.
for a job well done. -
“Roy has only been in
‘North Van for about a
“dozen years, and he has
written a book on the his-
tory.of St. Martin's. .
Church, and probably.
knows more about the

overall history of North

share the wealth, the result
of several large endowments,
with other: less-fortunate
branches.

Money .from West Van
SPCA’s coffers has helped
fund the, construction of a:
horse barn in Surrey and a
new shelter in
Parksville/Qualicum. The

' West: Van SPCA ‘has also

supported the .- Wildlife”
Rescue ‘Association and
shelters in Fort St. John and
Kitimat.

The West Van shelter also
takes in dogs from Powell
River, which is without a. .
shelter,

His : official retirement’ ©

from volunteerism. won't
change too much. "Fil
attend all the. meetings and
be free to give advice,” says
the octogenarian.

Van by his many inter-. :
views. with many. of the
seniors living here,
myself included.”

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