Al8 - Wednesday, January 18,

1984 - North Shore News

VERA THEVARGE and daughter Carol sit in the middie of
what was their Flamingo Apartment home, waiting for a new

~ Aid for

victims
pours in

BELEAGURED ROYAL Canadian Legion
members are scrambling to cope with an outpour-

ing of generosity as the community responds to the
devastation of last week’s apartment fire.

Residents of 21 units at the
Flamingo Apartments, 145
East 17th, were forced to flee
into the early morning
darkness Friday after fire
broke out in a ground floor
storage area.

Firemen battled the blaze
for more than four hours but
were unable to stop” the
flames from destroying 12
suites m= the wood framed
structure and heavily damag
ing others.

The Legion stepped into
the breach quickly. Drawing
on the experience of the Co-
quitlam branch of the
veteran’s club which aided
victims of an apartment fire
there, they set in motion the
wheels of aid.

**We decided to become tn
volved,”” says) co-ordinator
tom Donnelly, ‘‘masnly
because so many people were
totalled out *’

Operating first with only
word of mouth advertising
and then with extensive
media coverage, the response
to ther efforts quickly grew
By Sunday, the Legion was
forced to take over the gym
nasium of a tocal school to
accommodate the clothing,
food and furniture that was
being donated

‘‘The response has been
absolutely fantastic,’’ says
Donnelly. ‘‘It’s been beyond
belief.”’

**We've had no less than
150 people walk in here with
clothes and bedding and
they're sull coming,’’ Don-
nelly told the News Tuesday
morning

The response has been so
great, he adds, that the main
problem the Legion 1s facing
is a lack of drivers and trucks
to pick up donated items.

Donnelly has taken the
task of aiding the victums of
the fire, which is sall under
Investigauion, a step further
than simply ‘collecting goods
on their behalf.

He has talked to the fire
victims and assessed = then
degrees of need in order to
determine “who to bring up
fist when the furniture as
available’

Donnelly, oa
suranee adjuster
tently unemployed, is
aiding tenants in
them insurance claims

He credits much of the suc
cess of the aid efforts to the
help the Legion has receses cd
from dozens of agenaes

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...Glen Eldstrom displays his water and fire damaged

photographs and photographic equipment in the rubble of his
suite ...

NEWS photos Stuart Davis
... and Marie Wolf and Liz MacDonald display some of the
goods dropped off at the North Vancouver Rec Centre to aid
fire victims such as the Thevarages and Eldstrom.

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