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’ By MARLENE STARKMAN

malnutrition.

These people — of North
and West Vancouver — are
so undernourished from
eating tea.:and’-toast four
times a day their health is
deteriorating, Lions Gate
Hospital Dietician Director
Shirley Hammond told the
News.

LOOKING FORWARD to the day when this plece of wasteland will
house a mew court building, these are just two of North Vancouver's
court staff who will be glad to move out of the trailer complex on Eant
23rd Street where cases are now being heard and'into a pennancnt

Some North Shore seniors are living ona diet
of only tea and toast — and are suffering from

And the community's

dieticans and nutritionists

say that if the newly opened
West Vancouver . Seniors
Activity Centre operated a
subsidized hot meal program
it would at least do
something to help solve the
problem.

_THE VOICE OF NORTH AND. WEST VANCOUVER

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But, according to the cen-

tre’s Coordinator, the
present funding § arrange-
ments make that impossible
~~ but not undesirable.

The dieticians say there is
a “desperate need” for such
ap “Daily, we see
people who don’t eat as well
as they should because of
loneliness, boredom, or
minor physical problems
that make it difficult for
them to.shop qr cook,” says
a lettér tothe News.

And malnutrition can be
the result.

Eating is a social event,
they say. So when people
live alone all the time they
often resort to a diet of easily
prepared foods that have no
nutritional value, Hammond
said.

The desperate situation of
some Seniors usually does
not come to light until they

know of anyone ~who has
died directly as a result of
malnutrition, she said there
is no doubt it contributes to
an individual's illness and
subsequent length of stay.

What is so frustrating is
that in most cases money, or
lack of it, is not the cause of
the problem, she said.

Living alone with no
family or friends in a small

enter hospital for another “ isolated apartment, seniors
lose the energy and impetus
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problem.
While Hammond does not

buflding. Pictured shortly after Victoria's approval for a $5 million
courthouse to be built on the she are North Shore Courts Administration
Manager Dorothy Penman and Sheriff Gordon Tyson. See story on page
AS (Terry Peters photo)

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A North Shore-wide
referendum on the con-

Pras

tentious issue of Sun-
day shopping being
projected for this fall is
in danger of degenera-
ting into “absolute
chaos.” .

This is the fear being
expressed by some North
Vancouver District alder-
men.

They are worried that
suggestions by some District
council members to consider
wide open Sunday shopping
may. lead to mass confusion
if a referendum is held —
especially if residents of the
three municipalities vote
differently, or if different
questions are asked by the
councils.

“There'll be incredible
confusion if we're different”
from the other
municipalities, said District
Alderman John Lakes at last
Monday's council mecting.
“It's just going to be a mess.”

Council will discuss

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SUNDAY:
Sunny with a lew
cloudy periods.
Slightly warmer.

MONDAY
Little change.