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VALENTINE REMINISCENCES
Not always love at first sight

LOVE IS ALIVE and well on the North Shore,
and with Valentine’s Day just around the corner,
tales of romance seem to be popping up in unex-

pected places.

Who would have guessed,
for example, that Doug Col-
lins, North Shore News col-
umnist and West Vancouver
resident, has a soft spot for
love, and has been married
for 35 years?

Collins met his wife in
what he describes as ‘‘a
miserable British Intelligence
Office in Goettingen, Ger-
many in the middle of the
winter,’’ 38 years ago.
Working: in_ British In-
telligence, Collins heard

headquarters would be sen-.
ding a’ woman agent to, work ,

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at the office, which he says,
“f tried to prevent her from
coming, but headquarters
wouldn't listen to me.”*

So much to Collins’ sur-
prise, the woman, Betty, not
only came to work at the of-
fice, but three years later, he
married her.

West Vancouver resident
Tony Waiters, coach of the
National Soccer Team, says
he and his wife were both

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taking courses in England at .

TONY

and Anne

Waiters, left, met

on the stairs when they
attended Blackburn College in |

: England. Tony admits love.at firs: sight.

“Buy: one month -

the Blackburn College of
Technology and Manage-
ment when they met — he in
personnel management, she
in executive secretarial
school. ‘‘Both groups went
to a management training
centre and we met on the
staircase,’’ he says with a
chuckle in his English ac-
cent. ‘*You could say it was
love at first sight, because in
those days mini-skirts were
very much in vogue — there
was plenty to look at.”

The couple got to know
each other through Anne’s
boss who was in the same
management class as Tony.
“‘He was the matchmaker.
He manufactured and ma-
nipulated our meetings
together." The couple have
been married 12 years now.

STELLA JO DEAN

North Vancouver City

Alderman Stella Jo Dean,

now married for 34 years,
met her husband Roland on
a blind date, she says, but he
was her friend’s blind date,
not hers.

“Twas going out with a
boy Jim, who I used to play

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crib with. We decided one
night we should make it a
foursome so I brought along
my friend and her date was
Roland. But my husband fell
madly in love with me. And
what really turned me on
was that he invited me to a
picnic, and | thought, ‘Oh
great, I'll have to oring the
picnic,’ so | said, ‘What do !
bring?’ and he said,
‘Nothing but your sweet
self.’ He prepared
everything!"

MARK SAGER.

West .Vancouver's “Mark
Sager met his girlfriend Lori

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I bought a piano, but of
course I couldn't play a
note. My sister said she had
a friend who was a concert
pianist. When she came over
she had just been horseback
riding so she was in her jeans

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and today one man will
find the answer to. his
marriage proposal.

Happily, the answer J.
will get from V. is “Yes,
I'll marry you!”’

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