LYNN VALLEY

JOAN AND Ron
Davie thank all of the
firefighters and para-
medics who assisted
when their 95-year-old
mother collapsed after
having dinner with them
at a restaurant earlier this
month.

“Within 20 minutes of
the original call, mother
was resting comfo:tably
at LGH and soon after
receiving satisfactory
results from various
tests.” She was sent home
“with the thoughts of an
exciting evening still
ringing in her ears,” Joan
said, “To all those who
took part in ‘that exciting
evening’ our heartfelt and
sincere thanks."

PEMBERTON HEIGHTS

CALL DEBBIE at
988-3726 or Wendy at
984-8775 to rent a table
at the Pemberton Heights
Community Garage.and
Crafts Sale set for 10.
a.m. to 4 p.m. at Capilano
Elementary School, 1230.
West 20th St. in North
Vancouver.

LORSDALE

LONSDALE ELE-
MENTARY school cele-
brates an 85th anniver-
sary this year,

The school] opened
with 30 students in
September, 1911... 0 |,
’. Contact the school at

* 988-6171 or Carol
Nordby at 986-C406 to
help out the planning
committee organizing an

~ open house and barbecue. ‘

MOSQUITO CREEK

TERI BOOTH thanks
a woman for her random
act of kindness. .

Booth was walking a
friend's dog when it fell
into the raging creek and
‘was Swept away. The dog
‘managed to gain a precar-
ious foothold and
emerged on the other side
of the creek.

A woman happened
‘upon the scene and
brought the dog to safety.

“With so much nega-
tivity and lack of charac-
ter prevalent today, I

_can't express my admira-
‘tion and gratitude for this
“supreme example of -
integrity and compassion.

“Thank you from the
top and bottom of my
heart Marianna Terrett. a
stranger who went. the
distance,” said Booth.

CHART WELL

MR.
McCLENAHAN’S math
team recently placed sec-
ond in the province in a
Simon Fraser University
math contest. The team
brought back « book
prize for the math
library.

LIONS BAY

JASON POPE, 21.
among 10 young BC
residents chosen to take
part in a six-month inter-
national exchange spon-
sored by Anglican and
Lutheran churches in
Canada and in Tanzania.
Pope is an active member
of Gloria Det Lutheran
Church, He is the son of
Rev. Alan Pope, chaplain
at LGH.

Friend of theatre |

BY JAN NOBLE
News Reporter
FLORENCE GOODWIN,

-amuch loved member of

North Shore theatre
groups, passed away Feb.

* 22 at age 90.

Her memory lives on with
the Florence Goodwin
Memorial Theatre Award. The
annual award honors her life-
long contribution to communi-
ty theatre on the North Shore,
said her son John.

That contribution began as
far back as 1946, when
Florence and her husband
Howard Goodwin founded the
West Vancouver Little Theatre
Guild, which is now Theatre
West Van.

At the time, Florence also
became one of the theatre sec-
tion heads of the Community
Arts Council of Vancouver.

John, who lives in West
Vancouver, said the multi-tal-

ented Goodwin busied herself’
in other theatre pursuits such:

as production, program adver-
tising, and acting as assistant to

the director and make-up when
she was not playing a part in
one of Little Theatre's plays.
In 1965, a minor pari in the
Littlest Hobo became her first
film role. As a professional
make-up artist, she eamed
$600 a week working on the

1979 film Up River.

She continued to act in
plays and movies through the
1970s. During the 1980s,
Goodwin focused her love for
theatre on North Vancouver
Community Players.

“She found them to be full
of life and provided her won-
derful scope in her senior
years,” said her sen John.

Goodwin’ performed her
last role in the children's play,
Scroagie, the Musical in 1993.
She was 87.

In 1992, Goodwin received
the Don Marsh Award for her
work promoting a spirit of har-
mony among theatre groups on
the North Shore.

“We all enjoyed having her
around,” said North Vancouver
Community Players past presi-
dent and current publicist Anne
Marsh. “She was somewhat
quite special.”

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-Marsh said . the theatre
played: a large. role in
Goodwin's life in later years.
She could be seen at most

community players’ perfor- -

mances in the front row, some-
times sleeping, said Marsh.

“She was so supportive of
everything we did.” added
Marsh.

Although she won acco-
lades for her theatre work, as a
teacher Goodwin was endeaz-
ingly known throughout the
North Shore as Litde Hitler.
“ol which she was. secretly
proud.” said John.

The feisty Goodwin estab-
lished discipline and rapport in
her classes by arm wrestling
the biggest boy in class up to
Grade 12. She won ail the
time.

Odeon search

ARTHUR KINGS (left) searches for
nine pennies he and his childhood
friends buried during construction
of the West Vancouver Odeon in
1948. GAP Contracting’s Gary
Muchula (right) held up on the
demolition of the theatre when
told of Kings' search, but a three-

{ hour hunt was unsuccessful in
locating the pennies.

NEWS photo Mike Wakatisid

“it was
course,” said John. “Once dis-

cipline. was established, she -.

could have fun with a class.” ..

One Grade 8 student, Hugh
Cameron, wrote in class of
Goodwin’

“meeker mon. ..
strosities,” includ- 3

ing the rumor that “7

she took off the

ear of a Grade 2

student who didn’t hear his
aame being culled during roll
call,

“It's kind of exciting know-
ing that she was once world
arm-wrestling champ, though,”
added tittle Hugh, although she
wasn't.

In addition to: her busy
teaching and theatre schedule.
energetic Goodwin — was

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involved ‘in the Toastmistress
program, had three children, .
wrote poetry, and travelled to ~
Europe, Australia, New Zea-
land, China and the Far East.
Donations may be made to
the Florence Goodwin
Memorial Theatre Award fund:
at account. 3/6-508169 © at
Canada Trust, 1645 Marine
Drive in West Vancouver.

Sandra Mackendrick ;
& Andrew Hillhouse