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New centre will welcome help from volunteers

HOW TO say it? If tell you that Margaret
Fulton Adult Day Care is splitting up, you'll start
to cry. But it’s not that sort of split, like a
divorce, it’s more like an amoeba — remember
them from high school science ciass? Those or-
ganisms that reproduced themselves painlessly, by
simply splitting off a part and starting anew?
That’s exactly what’s
happening, very shortly.
By the middle of
November there will be a
Margaret Fulton Centre in
West Vancouver, in St.
David’s Church, and there’s
already a waiting list.
Nothing will be lost in the
establishment we. know here,
in St. Andrews Church hall.
It will still be open five days
most weeks — holidays in-
terfere occasionally — and
will be offering even more .
in the way of involvement
and stimulation than it
presently does.
Some new programs have |
. already been knitted into the
days, and others are getting
tryouts.
This neighborly setup in
West Vancouver is overdue
and much welcomed,
though in the first months it
will operate only part of
each week.
The business of staffing
and organizing and fur-
nishing will make it part-
time to start, but all plans
are optimistic of full opera-
tion in the future. |
_. Some of the experienced
staff from the present centre
will help sraooth the begin-

-nings at St. David’s, and it’s
good news that Capilano
College is now offering a
course for Resident Care
Attendants,

There'll be lots of scope
for their practicums.

The new facility has a
long list of needs, though. .
There definitely is'a kitchen
sink but not a lot besides.

You see, the Ministry of
Health undertakes funding
for rent and staffing, but
nothing at all for readying
the space allotted at St.
David’s.

The rooms are at this
moment quite empty, and I
have a list here just short of

THE VINTAGE YEARS
piaces to try, of course, and

those warehouse furnishings

establishments and army
surplus stores, .

Be sure, nothing will
escape scrutiny. ;

But should you be moving
or shedding, please bear in
mind the various needs you
might mitigate.

One other very desirable
concomitant — I might as
well make this list complete
in one fell swoop — is more
volunteers, ;

It’s fairly easy to get peo-
ple to rummage around for
seldom-used household ar-
ticles; it’s something else to

ask flat out for their bodies! .

Volunteers, my dears, are
worth their weight in gold,
and there are areas needing
all kinds of different skills.
@ Cookery, for one —
kitchen participation proved
a great entertainer this past
summer, and will continue
to do so.

@ Art — do you do

NEWS photo Cindy Goodman

watercolor maybe, or acrylic
work, or sing along with
your guitar? You'd be very
welcome,

@ Maybe you do card
tricks, or juggle perhaps, or
you’ve been around the
world in a balloon and en-
joy talking about it.

You’d have a most ap-
preciative audience with the
foiks who visit Margaret
Fulton. Some come several
times a week, you see, and
you can imagine how wel-
come new faces and activi-
ties are.

I got a brand-new slant
on volunteering the other
day, by the way. I’d been
visiting with Wendy Hanna
who runs the Volunteers for
Residents of Care Facilities

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programs on the North
Shore, and she really sur-
prised me.

I’m sure she knows what
she’s talking about as she’s
been in this work for many
years, but she says that most
volunteers offer themselves
in order to improve their
own lives, their own sense
of well-being.

I’ve always thought it was
to spill some of your own
good fortune on to people
less fortunate. I mean, here
you are with an abundance;
it just scems the thing to do.

But if she’s right, there’s
a preat personal bonus to be
earned, and if it can make
you feel good — wow —
time to get at it. °

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a mile long.

A bed for naps, straight
‘chairs with arms, tablecloths
and napkins and the tables
to lay them on, maybe a
lazy-boy, dishes, silverware,
jugs, urns, cushions, a
dishwasher, and a washer-
dryer -— some ladies take
particular pleasure in
foiding clean linens. It’s
good therapy.

The North Vancouver
Margaret Fulton has a VCR
and tape player which give
many hours of pleasure on
rainy days.

There’s none of that at
St. David’s, and thus these
items would be greatly ap-
preciated,

Got a spare?

There are second-hand

ST. CHRISTOPHER’S Church is holding a church bazaar on
Saturday, Nov. 20, fram 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Here (left to right),
Mavis Robson, Sally Zaplatynsky and Jean Wood are pictured
with some of the items that will be for sale at the bazaar,
located at 1068 Inglewood Ave., West Vancouver.

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