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grow and wander through the : i en i yk
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~~ Koopman said he started ee “3 : sf SAGER ANDERSON LAWRENCE
the tradition by accident. a : ] ; .-— i; 44 Barristers & Solicitors
“My  lietle neighbour, on . : _ ie : :
when she moved in, was Ay a) oy, ": 235-15th Street, West Vancouver
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watching what [ was doing in
the garden,” he said. The tour
year old's father was away
most of the time that sammer
working, so she visited a great

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for all of them,” said § . 7 ; “ot AN Tienda Pts
Koopman. “And I didn’t want ing : j aks

the other kids to feel left out.” & Meee ae Huge Selection!

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wanted to guit the annual : ve ; : ; For free estimate, call: 988-2239
event because the pumpkins : q 170 Fell Ave., North Vancouver V7P 239
took up too much space in his
garden.
Bat he remembers the
moment he realized it was : ; f
going to be impossible to . : ia a - ;
stop. Koopman Was speaking NEWS photo Mike Wakefield
with a woman he hadn't mer HORSESHOE Bay resident Tom Koopman shares his annual crop of pumpkins
before who lived down the with neighborhood children. He's beginning to be known as “the pumpkin man.”

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“She was on Block Watch and she said to me, ‘1. don’t recall given us some plants. He’s always donating everything to every | a nco uvei Alerfront

seeing you in the neighbourhood.’ [told her I live on the cor. body. You walk by and he'll give you some tomatoes or onions

ner in the yellow house. She looked at me and said, ‘Oh, yvouw’re or something.” she said. e

the pumpkin maa!’ [ said, ‘Oh my God.” Koopman said the children rake turns on who gets the BS Anti u e OW
Neighbour Kelpin said he’s being modest. “They don’t have biggest pumpkin. When the pumpkins are ripe, he delivers them

kids, just avo dogs. He’s got these great suntlower plants. He's by wheelbarrow to the delighted child’s house.

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