41 - Sunday, December 1, 1985 ~ North Shore News

Cookies
for
Christmas
PAGE 43

NEWS photo Stuart Davis

Need for help at Christmas

MORE SINGLE mothers, more elderly and more

homeless on

the North Shore

will spend

Christmas lonely and hungry without help.

“We thought this year
would be better, but its
much worse,” said North
Vancouver Christmas
Bureau (NVCB)  chairinan
Ida Paddock. ;

As many as 1,700 North
Shore families need help and
‘these are the poorest of the
poor,’’ Paddock said.

Spearheading an effort to
supply this increased need
and ensure a merry
Christmas for all, the North
Shore News, together with
local businesses, is organiz-
ing a drive for non-
perishable food and money
to assist the NVCB and the
West Vancouver Santa Claus
Fund (WVSCF).

Over 30 businesses spread
evenly throughout the North
Shore are sporting News
banners, window screamers
and posters. These locations

Christmas charit’ drive, and
we hope this year will be our
biggest yet. So catch the
community spirit, and sup-
port the needy right here on
the North Shore.”’

Said Paddock: “If it
wasn't for the North Shore
News, I don’t know what
we'd do. They're mounting a
terrific campaign.

For Locations —

are collection depots for the
WVSCF and the NVCB.
‘‘Charity begins at
home,’’ said News publisher
Peter Speck. ‘tPeople on the
North Shore are very
generous. This is our annual

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With continued economic
hard times, high unemploy-
ment and social service cut-
backs, both the NVCB and
the WVSCF are hearing a
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this Christmas.

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“Groups that have never
asked before are coming up
and asking for assistance this
year," Paddock said. ‘‘Ap-
plications for assistance
come from the Ministry of
Human Resources so you're
helping the people who real-
ly need it. These are the
poorest of the poor.”'

Applications at the NVCB
for food hampers and
vouchers have doubled from
300 in 1984 to 590 so far this
year — a whole month be-
fore Christmas. While too
early to measure accurately,
the WVSCF could face a
similar demand.

Paddock says a_ single
mother with three children
or an elderly person would
be the average recipients of a
food hamper or voucher.

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Despite the need, WVSCF
chairman Ruth Stout
predicts the community will
meet the need — ‘We have
never failed.”’

One location already had
donations pouring in even
before the drive officially
began or the food depot was

put in place.

Cheques can be given to
shopkeepers or mailed
directly to either organiza-
tion: (NVCB, P.O. Box
86081, North Vancouver
V7L 4J5: WVSCF, P.O. Box
91114, West Vancouver V7V
3N3).

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