Wednesday, January 20. 1999 — North Shore News - #5

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SUSSEX Insurance office manager Kendra Kurucz has been with the company

for more than two years after a career in banking.

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DON Gordon has been a member of the Fraternal Order of Eay.es for 16
and has served as the organization's secretary for the past year.

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NEWS photos Paul McGrath

DAVE and Fay Cash have found a new home for Cash’s New and Used Home
Furnishings (and celebrity cardboard cutouts) on West Third Street in North Van.

Furnish

ings could

have been a blast

COMMERCTAL Avenues ts a bi-monthly feature of the North Shore News business section. While it
is by no means a comprelensive guide to any of the areas it focuses on, it seeks to capture a snapshot of
the day-to-day life of businesses selected at random that call the street home. If vou have a business that
is part ofa unique or otherwise wordnrhile block or know of any, share tt with us. Write to Commercial
Avenues c/o Robert Galster at the North Shore News, 1139 Lonsdale Ave.. North Vancouver, V7M

JH or e-mail: crobert@nsnews.com>.

Robert Gatster
News Reporter robert@nsnews.com

THERE was a time when the Cash
family — Fay and Dave — faced a

future clouded by uncertainty and

punctuated by loss.

The couple had been running
Cash’s New and Used
Furnishings on lower Lonsdale
Avenue for 25 vears when thev
received an eviction notice. That
was about a year ago. A large sale
followed the notice and an initial
search for a new location came up
empty. They had come to the end
of the road.

But luck was on their side as it
turned out. A location on nearby Third
Streer featuring affordable rent albeit for a
much smaller storefront became available.
Thes’ve been there for the last nine months
and, to date, report business is as good as can
be expected during tying economic condi-
tions.

sit was going very well until the beginning
of November ... usually ar Christmas [ sell rons
of little stuff but this year I don’t know,” said

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Fay who over the years has seen pretty well
every side of every possible economic :
must say January is starting off a lot better.”

In one respect they are lucky to even be
alive considering an item Dave picked up at an
estate sale in 1975 of so.

“An older guy came in who was in the war
and thought our doorstop might be a bomb,”
recalled Dave who took the precaution to call
the police.

Members of the bomb squad arriveg! and
removed the item.
“A few hours later they phoned us
and said it was a bomb,” said
Dave. “We used it as a door stop
for months and I know it fell over
a few times,”

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Charitable and social
Don Gordon has been a member of the
Fraternal Order of Eagles for 16 years. The
organization raises funds which are in turn
funnelled to several charitable organizations.
In addition to raising money, the group’s 350

members also share a social circuit.
“If just like meeting the people and being
active plus it’s a chance to give back to the

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