34 - Wednesday. July 10. 1991 - North Shore News

GOLF AT Murdo Fraser is a
regular Tuesday activity with
the North Vancouver's Silver
Harbour Centre (980-2474 for
information). Pitch and Putt
golf outings are also offered
regularly through the West
Vancouver Seniors’ Activity
Centre. For more information
call 926-4375.

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Silver Harbour
plans summer
day trips

A $i2 annual membership in the
Silver Harbour Centre is a bargain
indeed.

There are always activites ongo-
ing at the centre for people over
55; from carpet howling and chess
to woodworking, bridge. exercise
and more.

Also featured is an inexpensive
hot junch at noon from Monday
to Friday.

On Mondays and Tuesdays dur-
ing the summer, law students will
be offering free legal aid from 10
a.m. to 4 p.m. Call 980-2474 for
an appoiniment.

A number of daytrips have been
planned for the summer months:

Snokomish: Friday, July 12
from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.: $17.75.

Victoria, Butchart Gardeas:
Wednesday, July 17, $41.50 (in-
cludes admission and lunch).

Indian Arm Cruise: Tuesday,
July 23, $23.

Bowen Istand Cruise: Wednes-

day, july 34, S41 (includes cruise
and buffet lunch).

Minter Gardens and Harrison
Hot Springs: Friday, Aug. 9,
$20.25.

Salt Spring
Aug. 13, $25.25,

Butierfly World and the Old
Schoolhouse Gallery: Monday,
Aug. 26, $25.75.

Datch Day Tour — Lynden:
Tuesday, Sept. 3, $38.25 (includes
admissions and lunch).

Gulf and San Juan Islands
Loop: Thursday, Sept. 12, $38
(includes U.S. ferry charges and
dinner).

Island: Tuesday,

Longer tours are also being
planned for late summer and fall.
Destinations are the Rocky Moun-
tains, California/Nevada, Reno,
andN ew Me x -
ico/Arizona/Carsbad Caverns.

For more details on these and
other Sitver Harbour programs for
older adults, call 980-2474.

Local filmmaker studies aging

A NORTH Vancouver man is
among those working to bring the
process of aging into the eye of
the public.

Gerald Hodge is a principal of
Spindlekin Productions, a local
independent film company that
specializes in films on aging.

Currently, it is developing a
series of TV films on ethnicity and
aging called Unbroken Thread,
under grants from B.C.’s Knowl-
edge Network and the Saskat-
chewan Communications Advanc-
ed Network.

Also underway is a project to
develop a video that will case the

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meal preparation.

HOME NURSING PROGRAM Provides care in the home with

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RESPITE PROGRAM Provides companionship to housebound
individuals and relief to caregivers responsible for a family member.

CONGREGATE MEAL PROGRAM Provides a hot nutritious

meal two evenings a week in the company of other seniors.

HOME EMERGENCY RESPONSE SYSTEM Provides users

in an emergency situation with a device to call for

help 24 nours a day.

For more information on how these services
can help you, call:

984-9511

access of elders from various cul-
tural groups into long-term care
programs and facilities, in con-
junction with Mount St. Joseph
Hospital in Vancouver.

Unbroken Thread will explore
the human process of growing
old, through the stories and expe-
riences of Canadian elders.

Composed of four half-hour
episodes, each program will focus
on clders of a different cultural
group, including Chinese elders
from Nanaimo, [talians from
Trail, Doukhobors from Castlegar
and Native Indian elders from
Bella Coola,

Explored will be the manner in

which these cultures nurture and
support their members as they
grow old, as well as difficulties
brought by the aging process.

Production on the series will
begin in the fall, with the com-
pleted episodes ready to air in the
spring of 1992,

Hodge is an Adjunct Professor
in Gerontology at Simon Fraser
University, writer of the film
Where the City and Water Meet,
and member of the B.C. Seniors’
Advisory Council.

For more information about
Spindlekin Productions, call 987-
$953.

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