146 - Sunday, December 23, 1990 - North Shore News

CARSON GRAHAM student council member Richard Berg puts
together one of the 50 hampers thai the school staff and school
made for the North Shore Neighbourhood House from the dona-

tions the school collected.

NEWS photo Mike Wakefield

Santa gets some

help

from his

N. Shore friends

JUST AS in the fairy tale,
Christmas wouldn’t be ar-
riving here on the North
Shore if Santa hadn’t had a
little help from his friends.

By Elizabeth Collings
News Reporter

But in this case,.Santa is the
North Vancouver Christmas
Bureau and the West Vancouver
Santa Claus Fund and the friends
are the hundreds of schools,
church groups, volunteers and
community groups whose work is
helping to put food on the table
and presents under the tree for
seme 900 North Shore families
this year.

A quick last-minute count as
the Christmas bureau closed its
doors on Thursday revealed that
North Vancouver residents have
put in 680 applications (up from
654 last year) for hampers, toys
and food vouchers, according to
bureau coordinator Pat Orr.

In West Vancouver, the ap-
plications number 220, down from
fast year’s 250 — ‘but we're not
finished yet,"’ says Ruth Stout,
executive officer for the Santa
Claus fund.

As in years past, this Christmas
the community has put in a lot of
effort, creativity and generosity to
brighten Christmas for everybody.

The teachers, support staff and
administration at Sentinel Sec-
ondary School, for example,
managed to raise in the school’s
first-ever auction $4,351 to help
the West Vancouver Santa Claus
fund purchase food vouchers.

Sentinel principal Peter Lefaivre
calls it a ‘double give situation,’
where the staff donated goods and
services to the auction and then in
turn purchased those of a col-
leaguc.

Up for the bidding at the Nov.
30 auction were almost 50 items
ranging from a murder mystery

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dinner and a hot-tub party to a
day of salmon fishing and “three
men and a pick-up truck.""

Other North Shore schools have
pitched in by gathering donations
and making their own hampers
for families. Carson Graham stu-
dents and staff will be delivering
50 hampers to the North Shore
Neighbourhood House where they
will in turn find a needy home.

Businesses have also made large
contributions to the Christmas ef-
fort, says Orr.

Although the weather worked
against them, Grouse Mountain
and Capilano Suspension Bridge
twice ran their ‘‘dollar days”? deal
in which $1 from every ticket or
pass purchased went to the two
Christmas funds.

Meanwhile, the Lonsdale Quay
Market brought the Vancouver
Symphony to the Lonsdale Quay
market to play Christmas music,
while volunteers from the North
Shore Credit Union (whose bran-
ches also take donations) collected
money from the audience.

In West Vancouver, a man
makes toys each year for the
children on the North Shore.

Meanwhile, the Highlands
Church ladies were busy making
quilts and dressing dolls to put in
cradles handmade by their hus-
bands.

Firefighters in both West and
North Vancouver have also helped
generously this year by collecting
donations at the firehalls and
delivering them to the funds as
well as to some families.

The list of Santa’s ‘‘heipers’’
this year is too lengthy to give
credit where credit is duc. But
their work will be needed once
again mext year because, unlike
the fairy tale, Santa’s work on the
North Shore is never done.

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