Growing a news Exhaustion and sore shoulders part of the thrill " WE INITIALLY published the North Shore Shopper ‘once @ month. “I moved the distribution areas around. We covered East of Lonsdale to Deep Cove one month, _ West of Lonsdale and South of the Highway to the River the next, and ’ then West’ Vancouver. All of this was done from the house on Sunnycrest Drive. The paper overflowed from my : tiny apartment: well, actually the paper remained in the tiny apart- ment and I moved in with Yvonne. We added staff: I remember ~. Olivia Chow and her Varityper, ” Nancy Hooper, Marianne Chilton, ‘Ellsworth Dickson, Richard Oak, Keith and Phyllis Christiansen, -Jobn Sanka and quite a few other pzople. . Lwasn’t much better organized in the financial end than I ever had “been. | knew. how to ‘send out bills and collect:money, but I was very short -’- on things like planning and finan- cial statements. = Fear was my constant compan- ion: . “- On my 30th birthday (one of life’s most difficult, I think) I tried "to sell advertising until i1 in the "morning and then ended up going ‘- home and weeping in despair. But I’ve been blessed with a , fairly sunny nature, at least before “Reon. tae ‘The next moraing I was back at it’ again. I-was the i newspaper’s pub- lisher, éditor.and janitor. I sold ‘almost all the ads, wrote the copy "_ and did almost all the paste-up, at - When business got too hectic, 7 Yvonne went on the payroll as our SILVER SPECKULATIONS paste-up person. We often worked _48 hours straight at the critical deadline period. It was exciting, but exhausting. One day I fell asleep while driving - out to the printer. I had only recent- ly gotten my licence back. The roar of the gravel against the floorboards of my car startled me into consciousness, and I dis- covered that I was careering along the shoulder of the 401 at highway speed. The fear woke me right up. Soon it became too awkward to . work out of the house on Sunnycrest Drive. Moving vans came and went with the press run, the employees parked their cars on the street and the neighbors began to complain. We used the garage as a distrib- ution point. After my run to the printer I had a few hours of sleep. Then the paper came back from the printer, and I put on my Zone Advertorial Manager's persona. By this time we were handling our own distribution, and it was my job to drive all over the North Shore and deliver bundles to our carriers’ homes. My shoulders are still not the same, bul { know the North Shore almost as well as a taxi-driver. In 1970, or maybe 1971, we moved the newspaper operation from the Highlands to the Pemberton industrial area. We rented a little white house that was surrounded by warchouses, at 1123 West 15th St., from Mrs. Mildred Battle. Things kept growing. We went from once a month to twice a month. From small areas to larger areas. Soon we were covering the entire North Shore, from Deep Cove to Horseshoe Bay, weekly. We hired Joe Miller as our first advertising manager. We had crisis after crisis, mostly about money. Our overhead bal- looned and ncither our rates nor our volume of advertising sales kept pace. Roger Chilton, then Marianne’s husband, patiently taught me — as a favor — about break-even graphs, volume, rates and the effect on the bottom line. But J wasn’t very bottom-line oriented. I was convinced that, if we just did enough volume, every- thing would work out. ‘In 1972, the Shopper moved to its present 1139 Lonsdale location. We rented a comer of the top floor, about a fifth or a sixth of the top floor area. Over the years, as other tenants in the building folded up or moved awuy, we took over the rest of the building. We also changed our name to the North Shore News at about that time. t’s not magic. _ ut it is amazing. DAN RUTLEY is a man with a challenge: Since: 1980 -he has been. “a: practicing. counsellor’ working on the North Shore. His‘ challenge is to help his 1 better - regardless of . their life situation. “People often fore feeling bétter but true” Rutley explains. : fact, fecling happics, stronget*and more ‘confident is exactly vhat i is often needed to help sa sone’s problems. .. «Dan uses many tools to help his..clients to achcive fast. bul long .term. results. Hypnosis is one.of the most beneficial. It’s not-just’a stage trick, but, an extremely ,.valuable tool when combiried with counselling. ». WhY..would a person want to go for’counselling? How is hyp- nosis used? Counselling helps the: person ‘think’ more clearly, change this i isn, see ‘alternatives & to feel better.: Hypnosis strengthens, acceler- ates & reinforces their progress. _ Curtently, Dan is aiding patients, referred to him by doc- tors, who are suffering from depression, anxiety, _stress, insomnia and marital problems. Other arcas in which hyp- nosis is being uscd are to lose weight, stop smoking, increase confidence and assertiveness. What is hypnosis? Is it scary? Will I be totally under someone clse's control? This writer volun- tecred to experience hypnosis to sec what it felt like and gauge the results. Rutley explained that hypno- sis is just a state of mind or way of thinking that.is achieved by , relaxing, similar to meditation. Dan did not ask me to look at a spiral ot at a dangling watch. First he asked me what arcas of my life I felt could be improved. After naming a few problems - such as weight and others, he talked to me quietly while I pro- gressively became more relaxed. All the time: I felt fine, was totally aware of what was going on, could hear everything and was in total control. In fact, I felt more than fine. It felt good to relax so deeply. I felt strong, yet calm. While in hypnosis, your mind can take beneficial thoughts and ideas so seriously that cravings and withdrawals from quitting smoking can disappear or hunger pangs vanish, will power and Daniel Rutley, B.A., C.C.H. confidence strengthens. Dan made me a personalized tape to use at home and taught me self-hypnosis. His warm, car- ing personality put me at case and made time pass quickly. “[’m a good counsellor,” Rut- ley confidently slates, “my cli- ents get results, hypnosis just helps to speed things up.” Dan has an office in a profes- sional building on West 15th street near Lonsdale. His office is warm, softly lit and inviting. Rutley offers a free consulta- tion to find out more about his serviees, He can be reached at 984-9904 - cven on weekends. By the way, I'm feeling better... and I'm losing weight. PREZ R eee _ Photo submitted — OPTIMIST CLUB director Ken Dawson (right), pregents a cheque for $10,000 to NSDRC residential services director John Neumann (middie) and an association board mem- ber Anita Dadson. Disability centre hits funding goal THE NORTH Shore Disability Resource Centre (NSDRC) has met its fundraising target to outfit its new administration office. The Optimist Club of the North Shore recently presented a cheque for $10,060 to the Centre. The donation completed the fundraising target of $82,000. Early in February, the Centre was awarded one-third of its fundraising target from the provincial government’s BC21, Community Projects program, making it the first group of the North Shore to receive funding from the newly established fund, The remaining two-thrids of the project was covered by the NSDRC, volunteer labour, the Mr. and Mrs. P.A. Woodward’ s Foundation and the Optimist Club. “We've really been pleased with the success of combining our resources with those of the government and the community” said, : NSDRC president Denis Walsh. “Completing this project has allowed us to furnish our new administration office, to install a computer net- work, and to help in the renovating: and outfitting of our new resource centre at 3140 Mountain Highway.” | OUR NEW ADDRESS WiLL BE #117, 949 West 3rd St. North Vancouver _MAY 24TH - WERE MOVING ~