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Seniors’ One-Stop Line.
Call for information about
health, housing, trans-
portation, support groups,
meal programs, financial &
legal issues, etc. Weekdays
9 a.m.-3 p.m. Info: 983-
3303. ‘

Hostess volunteers need-
ed daily at Silver Harbour
Centre. For more informa-
tion, call 980-2474

Stamp Club. 2nd & 4th
Monday each month. 1-3
p.m. Silver Harbour
Centre. Donations to city
library juniors. For more
information, call Faith
Sagar, 985-3580.

Seniors’ Evening Meal
Program. Three-course
dinner, four evenings per
week in the company of
others. Info: North Shore
Home Support Services,
Marilyn or Hilary, 983-
6000.

NT

TUESDAY, DEC.
17

Eldererobics. Work-out
session for seniors, 10-11
a.m., Tuesday & Thursday
Delbrook Recreation
Centre. Info: Christine
Colbow, 926-2730.

Music lectures. |! a.m.
Vancouver Academy of
Music. Info: 987-0607.

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WEDNESDAY,
DEC. 18
Duplicate bridge. Silver

Harbour Centre. Info:
980-2474.

Matinee movie. Call for
days and times. For infor-

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mation, cal! 980-2474.

Men’s Club. Meets week-
ly. Guest speakers. Lunch
available. New speakers
needed. 10:30 a.m. -
12:30 p.m. North Shore
Neighbourhood House,
225 East 2nd St, N.V.
Info: 987-8138.
Free. Seniors’ drop-in
bingo. N.S.
Neighbourhood House.
Everyone welcome.
Home-made treats. Info:
987-8138.

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THURSDAY, DEC.
19

Bingo. 1 p.m.
Harbour Centre,
Info: 980-2474.

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FRIDAY, DEC. 20

Craft circle.
Neighbourhood
Info: 987-8138.

Ge ml
SATURDAY, DEC.
20

Send in your event list-
ings.

Silver
N.Y.

N.S.
House.

—Compiled by Ann
: Hamilton

Christ

Sunday, December 15, 1996 — North Shore News - 35

aneraig

year N. Shere tradition

By Layne Christensen
Community Reporter

NORTH Shore Haivest
will be serving turkey
with ali the trimmings
to needy families again
this year but its founder
would be happier if the
need didn’t exist.

“My goal is to be out of
business,” says David Foster,
who is planning for the 10th
annual North Shore
Community Christmas
Dinner. “Pd really like to read
about poverty and hunger in
same sort of history book.”

Foster held the first dinner
10 months after he got off
welfare, “the result of a life in
the fast lane in the Bridsh
Properties,” he says. That first
dinner, in 1987, involved 10
businesses and organizations
and fed 100 needy people.

Since then, Foster esti-
mates that more than 3,000
family members and individu-
als, including 2,000 children,
have shared in the Christmas
dinner.

Photo submitted

SANTA and his Little Helpers will
make sure the 10th annual North
Shore Community Christmas
Dinner is a festive occasion for fam-
ilies in need. The annual event takes
place Saturday night.

Council Meeting Agenda Summary
December 16, 1996 - 7:00 p.m.

General Matters

Delegation: Peter Mitchell, Director, BC Film
Commissien and George Chapman,
Production Manager, X-Files

Council Matters

. Terms of Reference for the Film Industry in the
District of North Vancouver

. Tender for Municipal Services Installation - Roche
Point Drive Phase 2

. TAKaya Developments - Request for Extension of
Permission to Enter

. Nuisance Abatement - 2755 Panorama Drive

. Establishment of a North Vancouver District Public
Transportation Committee

. Council Indemnities - Proposed Increase

. Baden Powell Trail Management Stucy

. Assessment Averaging and Phasing

. Silver Harbour Centre - 1997 Municipal Grants

. Subdivision Application #3932 - 2900 Block Royal
Avenuc

. Increase in Membership of Library Board

. Child Care Grants Recommendations

. Commitice Appointments

4. Bylaw 6930 - Street & Traffic Bylaw (to increase
penalties for violations)

. Bylaw 6926 - Rezoning Bylaw (Murdo Frazer
Neighbourhood Zoning)

3. Bylaw 6929 - Subdivision Control Bylaw (establish
lot size requirements within Murdo Frazer single
family zone)

. Bylaw 6917 - Standards of Maintenance Bylaw (to
prescribe standards for the maintenance of rental
residential premises)

Note: For more information on any of
these agenda items, please reler to
the District's Web Page or call the
Clerk’s Office at 990-2211.

1° ISSUE DATE

This year’s dinner will serve
325 people. Ir takes place from
6 to 9 p.m. on Saturday, Dec.
21 in the Capilano Room at
the Lonsdale rec centre.
Seating, is first come, first-
served.

Since the beginning, Save
On Foods has been a major
sponsor, supplying all the food
— 14 murrkeys, two hams, “a
hundred pounds of cranberries
and a couple hundred pounds
of potatoes and assorted veg-
etables,” says Foster.

Safeway will cook the
turkeys. Shoppers Drug Mart
is donating the table settings,
decorations are coming from
London Drugs.

Chef Adissa LaFayette will
oversee the food production.
Seventy volunteers in black-tie
will serve the festive feast.

In the past, Special guests
have included Winston Rekert
of Neon Rider, Expo Ernie
and weatherman Douglas
Miller. This year, B.C. Lions

fullback Sean Millington is
expected to show up.
Entertainment will be provid-
ed by Rob De Cotes’ jazz trio.

Those who attend the din-
ner are mostly low-income
families but there are others as
well, including seniors who are
without families over the holi-
days and new immigrants
looking to connect with their
community.

“Some families are new to
Canada and are ceiebrating
Christmas with us,” says
Foster. “We get more ‘Merry
Christmases’ from our Iranian
families than anyone else!”

Foster says support for the
dinner is so strong that he gets
calls from volunteers as early as
August.

“This dinner exemplifies
what community is all about,
community helping communi-
ty, neighbor helping neighbor
— the way it should be — and
that’s the true spirit that is
Christmas.”

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