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NORTH VANCOUVER’S Gertie Todd received a civic
medal for 35 years of work with the Miss North Shore Pag-
eant recently and vowed to return for a 50-year medal.

As she accepted her bronze
medal, Todd. 63, quipped about a
gold meda! award.

**You have to work for 35 years
(with the pageant) to get this
bronze. How do I get a gold,’’ she
asked the North Vancouver City
mayor and council at the award
ceremony.

During her 35 years with the
pageant, Todd has seen a myriad
of changes. “‘I find our young
people are more progressed in
awareness and taient,’’ she says.

Years ago when a younger Todd
first became involved with the
event, local social climates were
much different.

Some changes, she confesses,
require more time to adjust to than
others.

“It’s the single parents that I'm
learning to deal with,’’ admits
Todd:

Working with young people is
like a tonic for Todd, whose hectic
schedule of pageant-related events
keeps her busy.

Right now she is working on the
Miss Teen Vancouver Lower
Mainland Pageant before starting
on the North Shore event.

“~ have a two-week rest and
then I’m off,’’ she laments good-
naturedly.

Her work with the pageant has
given Todd a new outlook on life
— a younger outlook.

“These .young people are so
alive. I.can understand them better
than someone my own age. For me
this is an exciting generation,” she

" says.
“Todd has strict rules for the girls

By STEPHEN BARR TON
News Reporter

she is coaching: for the North
Shore and Vancouver teen pag-
eants, but does not rule with an
iron fist: ‘I never tell them. I ask
them — [ suggest — maybe they
could be here at this or that time.”’

Todd’s lively spirit and dedica-
tion to work has rubbed off on the
people she calls ‘her girls’ — the
young women she coaches for the
beauty pageants.

As a Christmas present, Todd
and a group of her girls visited the
extended care ward at Lions Gate
Hospital to bring a little cheer to
the patients.

“‘They just loved it,’? Todd says
of her charges. ‘‘They were just
waiting to go around to the hospi-
tal and share...They (patients)
were just delighted.

“That's good for the patients
and that’s good for my girls,’’ she

says.

Todd accepted the award with
aplomb, crediting everyone except
herself.

“Afterwards Jack (Loucks,
mayor of North Vancouver City)
said ‘You didn’t even accept the
award on your own.’’’

“T couldn't do this without sup-
port,’’ she says of her work. “I
accepted the award but I did say
that many other people were a part
of that award.”

But she vows to continue her
work with local.youth for as long
as possible. ‘‘You’re not going to
get rid of me until ’'m in a
wheelchair,’’ she laughs.

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