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**Me?”’ they say. “‘Adver- |

tise in a ‘Personal’ column?.
I'm lonely, but. I’m not that
lonely! Besides, all I'd get is
a bunch of strange dudes|
writing me ...

Friends, you’re wrong.
Wreng. You are really
missing a det if you are
lonely, live on the North
Shore, and are not using the
Nerth Skere News personal
columns. I’m telling you this
straight. .

We Started to run our
‘Personal’ column - about

three years ago, both as a.

reader interest feature. and
because it filled a real need
in the North Shore. com-

, munity. ‘In that three years |

we've had a lot of feed-back
from people who’ve used the
-‘Personal’’

real peopie who were in the
same. lonely —
themselves. Some have led
to marriage. © = :

- DIFFICULT: TO. MEET

divorced or widowed people.
It’s difficult to meet people of

the opposite sex, especially if.

you have just come through a

separation or divorce. One |

reason seems to be that
relationships you and your
spouse share have a way of.
dissolving when your rela-
tionship breaks up.

Some people have told me

| that they have been welcome

company at friends’s homes
while they were married, but
after’ their separation it
turned a lot cooler - in the

. words of qne lady I talked to,

‘“‘Now you're single, and

. you’re competition, honey, |

not company”’’.
So how do you go about
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columns of . the .
News and got responses from .

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NOTARIZED CIRCULATION 46,000

1139 Lonsdale Avenue, North Vancouver, B.C, V7M 2H4
 Office/News: (604) 980-0511 .

- Classified: 980-3464 Circulation: 986-1337

‘Publisher Peter Speck

Associate Publisher Bob Graham/ Mannag-.
ing Editor Noel Wright/News Guillermo.
Lam/Photos' Ellsworth Dickson/ Produc-.
tion Marna. Leiren/Advertising Kristi
' Vidier/Classified: Berni. Hilliard/Circula-.
tion . Yvonne | Chapman/Administration
Barbara | Haywood/ Accounts Sylvia Sor-

North Shore News, founded in. 1969 as: an.
‘Independent community newspaper and registered. —
- under Part 111, Schedule 111,
Customs and: Excise ‘Act,..
Wednesday by the North Shore Free Press Ltd. and
distributed to every door on fhe North Shore.

Entire contents copyright © 1976 North
Shore Free Press Ltd. All rights 1 reserved.

real. Whether the advertisements” ‘appear ‘in a
‘Lonely Hearts’ column, or the ‘Personal’ column
of the North Shore News, they represent. people
meeting people. | think there’s a big need for a
system for people to meet people, ‘and Pm
concerned that. many lonely folks on the North
Shore.don’t know how to use it or are afraid ‘of it.

people I know try hanging
around the bar a fot. I tried
this myself some years ago
when my first marriage

. broke up. I met a ‘lot of

people who liked to drink,

but it wasn’t very satisfying.
You can always walk up to
people who are attractive to
you and say “Hello, I'd like
to meet you’’. That’s a good
technique, but it takes more
guts than Sergeant Preston
of the Mounties, and makes

“your heart tremble like a

rabbit in a sack. Besides,
most of them turn out to be
married.

I think you should put a
personal ad in the North
Shore News. :I don't think
it’s crazy at all, and here’s
why: - .

PANGS OF LONE LINESS

There are about 46,000
household units on the North

Shore. Forty-six thousand is —

a lot - [know, we put a paper

im every”. one: of those
‘Households every Wednes-
The people I have talked t to.
- confirm my. feelings about-
the situation. of separated or

day. To put the matter into

perspective, our total press
_run_ weighs eighttons this

week. Weigh the paper in

-your: hand. and think about:

how many of those papers it-

takés to make-eight tons... 900) Sb vere
- SELF-EMPLOYED man, profes-.
sional,
classical. music, archaeology &

Most. of those households

have a man and a woman.
living together.. It is a fact -
_ that a percentage of those
relationships are continually -

breaking down. Some. auth-
orities claim that as much as
50% of all relationships
flounder during the first ten
years. | Whatever the statis-
tics, that means that there’s

.a great many people on the

North Shore going through
the pangs of separation,
divorce, loneliness and the
other facts of life in 1976.
Take deaths, for instance...
In India it used to be. the

aragraph 111 of the
4s published each

*

vastom for the wife t to burn

herselt alive-qn.the hus-

band's funeral pyre. P@en't.

think that it works this way
any more. There is a

of grief and readjustment,
but sooner or later it
becomes attractive to the

widow or widower to remar- - q
ry. And when you’ve lived |

with one person for a long
time, it’s damn difficult to
get started again.

So there are thousands of
‘single’ people out there, all
of whom have access to the
North Shore News . every.
Wednesday. Personal clas-

TIPS FOR YOUR AD

- Some - tips: “Use a box i:

number. It costs a buck and
protects your privacy. Ber-
nice Hilliard. News Classified.
Manager, is the only person

-who knows who has waat

number, and she doesn’t tell.
‘Your mail goes, unopened, in
that box. You can pick it up

or have it remailed to you.

You can phone your ad in or
write in.

“Write a nice ad. Don’t try
to be as brief as possible. For
$4 for 20 words who’ cares?
Tell those other: singles out
there something real about
yourself, and tell them what
kind of people you'd like to
meet. It’s. your chance to
open a dialogue, and there’s

_ Someone out there who is
- just what you want. Which of |,

these. ads do you like best?

"+ BUS. MAN, thirties, own hoine,

wants to” meet attract. lady, Box

age . 38, Interested -in

chitdren (have three kids), would

iike to meet a warm & mature . |

woman of compatible age &
tastes. Please send your phone
number or a brief letter to me at
Box 000, North Shore News.

' Or these:

wibow, 40,
wants to meet ind. prf. gntimn.
Box 000, North Shore News. °

1 WAS widowed 4 years ago. My -

husband was a nice man, but it’s

‘ time | became active again. | am

forty years old, have 2 teenage
children & am employed in an
office. | would Sike to meet a

. warm & sensitive man with a
=. view to developing a relationship

that Is comfortable & friendly.
Box 000, North Shore News.

You see? If you have any
trouble wording your ‘ads,
contact Bernice at 980-3464
and she or one of her staff
will help you.’ -

DON'T ‘WORRY | ABOUT
‘NUTS?

One of the risks you take |

with this type of advertising
is what we call, in: the
newspaper trade, the ‘nuts’.

You are protected by your
box. number... When, you
receive your replies, use
reasonable discretion as to
which ads you answer and

_ which you don't. Should you
- and it doesn’t happen very |
. often -. recélve’ correspond-

ence. whick. . ‘you think is

frightening, mail: it’ to me

with a note explaining it and

- J will bring it to the attention
of the police in the appropri- .

ate municipality.

But don’t let that scare you

-,off.. There’s oa fot of nice

: peopie on’ the North Shore.

‘ou can meet them through .

: the North, Shore News!

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