C2 - Sunday, April 15, 1984 - North Shore News

Vegetable
donations
welcome

THOUGH the Food Bank
needs a small mountain of
food donations every week,
there are many other ways in-
dividuals can be a part of this
‘neighbor hetping neighbor’
program.

The Food Bank suggests a
host of alternatives a family
untroubled by financial crisis
can consider in order to help
other families who find them-
selves at times unable to feed
themselves properly.

A program the food aid
service would like to see
develop immediately is to
have people set aside a row of
their vegetable garden for
others. This would benefit
the hungry at the time when
the vegetables are harvested.

Potatoes, carrots and
onions are excellent donations
The Food Bank desperately
requires all year round. If the
produce came out of a family
garden, all the better in main-
taining true community in-
volvement. Others without
gardens can be of help by
donating the excess from
their fruit trees.

If, at the time the produce

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Tax deadline

APRIL 30 1s the deadline for
filing your income tax return
If you have not yet filed and
are a semor, handicapped or
single parent and have dif
ficulty in completing your
return, there are trained
volunteers available to help
you

This service, provided by
the North Shore Information
and Volunteer Centre is par
ticularly designed for those
whose income is $1,000) per
month oor less Phone
98S 7138 for an appotntment
al the Centre's offtee at 18451
Pemberton Avenue, North
Vancouver

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is reaped and there exists a
transportation problem, ‘he
Food Bank has a team of
volunteers able to come by
and pick up the donation.

Another way individuals
may consider supporting The
Food Bank 1s leaving a por-
tion of their estate to The
Food Bank in their wills or
insurance policies, or any
number of similar ways
which are appropriate [to
benefit the program.

The Food Bank currently
needs volunteer manpower in
its office. Persons with skills
in typing and reception work

are urgently requested to

donate a few hours each week
for this purpose.
The Food Bank encourages

BARRY NILES of the Food Bank was on hand at Irwin Park Elementary School in West Vancouver to receive the food
that the students had collected. The student standing with Niles is Jim Richardson. Though the Food Bank is constantly

anybody with ideas to help looking for donations, there are other ways interested people can help.

out in this emergency food

aid program, and may do so
by wnting them at I! East

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of course the traditional ways FOO! »
of supporting the charity by ®

donating food items at super-

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market collection bins or by
mailing their tax-deductible
cash donations are greatly
encouraged.

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assistance on the Medical

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those whose taxable income
ts under $1,950 there as 90 per Centre
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able income between $1,950 a
and $2,890 there is 60) per oN copiers
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Mothers are reminded that to serve you
even if they have no income, ' :
they may be chysble tor the
Child Tax Credit depending -oncorde
on the income of thew spouse ~OPy
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