Lifestyles.

Canadian Cancer Society
opens new West Van unit

A BRIGHT new office for
the West Vancouver unit of
the Canadian Cancer Society
at #4-650 Clyde Ave. means
more than expanded space
for the small group of vol-
unteers manning the service.

By MICHAEL BECKER
News Reporter

The move, officially celebrated
with a recent open house, means
West Vancouver residents now
have access to community patient
services on a referral basis.

According to West Vancouver
unit president Norma Sharp, it’s a
big step up from the purely fund-
raising mandate of the unit to
date.

The new office coordinates ser-
vices, including support through
the CanSurmount group, of train-
ed volunteers offering support to
families attempting to cope with
cancer; the volunteer drivers pro-
gram for transportation to and
from cancer clinics; the Reach To
Recovery program for women who
have had mastectomies; lifestyle
education programs for schools;
and the Camp Goodtimes summer
camp near Sechelt for children
with cancer.

The West Vancouver fund-rais-
ing campaign last year brought in
$15,000 more than hoped for with
a grand total of approximately
$129,000 to help support the
various programs.

. Although officially opened Oct.
23, the new office has been open
and serving the community since
May.

Said Sharp: ‘‘We’re trying to
relieve other communities that are
overloaded. We'd like to en-
cy sage volunteers based here in
West Vancouver to participate
‘rather than draw from Vancouver.
We'd like to expand our horizons
and bea self-contained unit.”’

The West Vancouver unit mov-
ed from its home of two years at
Cedardale Elementary School after
the office space it was working

from was turned into a book’

distribution centre. ‘‘We were ask-
ed to vacate,’’ said Sharp.

Before that the unit worked
from an office at Pauline Johnson
Elementary.

“This is the first time our office
is not in a school and cur hours
are not subject to school hours and
school holidays,’’ she said.

The new office is open 10 a.m.
to 2 p.m., Monday to Thursday,
and is closed Fridays.

The effort is totally driven by
the volunteer lator of less than a
dozen people and all of the office
material is donated.

To find out more about volun-
teering opportunities with the unit
call 925-1952,

Concert slated

THE CLARINET quartets of
Stamitz and Crusell will flow
through the Vancouver Art Gallery
Nov. 6 when the North Van-
couver-based Ramcoff Concerts
Society presents another of its
popular Out To Lunch classical
concerts there.

The Fellowshiz of Musicians
and clarinetist: Gene Ramsbottom
will perform ‘in the third annual
Out To Lunch series, which sees a
wide-ranging variety of classical
music performed at the art gallery
at noon every second Friday.

The standing room-only concerts
start at noon, and seating is
limited.

On Nov. 20 the Festival Players
Canada are scheduled to perform
Bartok’s Contrasts, the Kat-
chaturian Trio and Reger's Suite
for Violin and Piano.

NEWS photo Mike Wakefield

NORMA SHARP of the West Vancouver unit of the Canadian Cancer
Society is ready and waiting to take telephone calls from new volunteers
to help serve people in need locally. The group has just moved into a new
santas 4-650 Clyde Ave. Residents interested in volunteering can call
925-1952.

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