Surveying our

IT IS interesting that as Vancouver City is collating the
results of its one-day sweep of future urban livability —

they call theirs ‘‘Ready or Not’’

— North Vancouver City

should also be the scene of repeated ongoing meetings
probing the expectations of its seniors.

Our local survey is in the hands
of the Lionsview Seniors Planning
Society, and if you haven’t put in
your two-cents’-worth yet, call
985-3852 and get on board.

The two approaches to in-
vestigation are quite distinct. In
Vancouver, they had one Saturday
attack — centres all over the city
gathered up the local folk to
discuss and delineate.

On our shore, meetings have
been ongoing since April 13,
venues shifting from one area to
another to cover a wide range of
response. The last one is planned
for May 8, next Friday, but
there’s a chance some more will
be offered, just to make sure of a
significant basis for conclusion-
drawing.

Attendance at the first few was
pathetic, but it picked up for the
first Silver Harbour meeting and
was very good, too, at the second
try at Neighbourhood House. The
one on the 8th is again at Silver

MONDAY

May 4—Ongoing. N.S. Neighbourhood
House Keep Well Program. Free
. drop-in for adults over 50 yrs. Walk-
ing club, 9 a.m.; hands-on program,
10 a.m.; exercise, 10:30 a.m.; relaxa-
tion, 11:30 a.m.; hot lunch, 12 p.m.
Info: 987-8138.
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May 4-Ongeoing to Sept. Mon-Fri
social tennis, all levels, N.V. & W.V.
courts. Application forms available at
recCentres & seniors’ centres. Info:
Seniors’ Tennis Association of the
NS., 922-9690 or 987-1723.
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‘May 4--Ongoing last Mon. each
month. Free legal advice for low-
income seniors. 1-3 p.m. Silver Har-
bour Centre, 144 E. 22nd St., N.V.
Info: 980-2474.

May 4-Ongoing. Congregate meal
program for seniors, hot meals, 3-
course dinner on 2 eves. per wk. in the
company of others. Cost $4.25. Info:
N.S. Home Support Services Society,
Maggie or Hilary, 984-9511.
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May 4-Ongoing. Bingo,
Silver Harbour Centre,
N.V, Info: 980-2474,

‘TUESDAY |

‘May 5-Ongoing. N.S. Keep Well free

$s pm.,
144 E. St.,

Eleanor
Godiey

THE VINTAGE YEARS

Harbour.

Coverage is on line for our
district, next, and then on to West
Vancouver, so it will be some
while before the picture is fully

WHAT'S

drop-in program. Massage, relaxation,
nutrition, counselling. Walking club,
9:30 a.m.; hands-on program, 10:30
a.m.;_ Lions Manos, 4290 Naughton
Ave. Deep Cove. Info: 987-8138.

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May 5--Ongoing to June. Sle-pitch
softball Players, aged 55 yes & older,
needed to join W.V. seniors’ league.
Players must be experienced & avail-
able 10 a.m. Tues. & Thurs. for prac-
tice & games. Info: Adiian, 985-6826
or Bill, 921-7844.

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May 5-Ongeing. Music lectures for
sts. 1! a.m. Van. Academy of Music.
Continues as long as interest. Mr.
Goldberg of Van. Academy co-ord.
Info: 987-0670.

WEDNESDAY

May 6—-Ongoing. N.S. Keep Weil
Program. Free drop-in program at
Silver Harbour Centre for adults over
55 yrs. Exercise, massage, relaxation,
counselling. 9:30 a.m.-12 p.m. Smalt
fee for hot lunch, 12-1 p.m., walking
club mects 9:30 a.m., hands-on pro-
gram, 10:30 a.m. lafo: 980-2474.
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May 6-Ongoing. Senior cyclists meet
at 9:30 a.m. at W.V. Senior Activity
Centre, 22nd Ave. & Marine Dr. in
W.V. No riding if it is raining. Info:
985-5038.

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May 6-Ongoing. Seniors’ Bingo. N.S.

Seniors’ video airs Monday

A 34-minute TV show on the ac-
tivities available at West Van-
couver’s Senior Centre airs May.4
on Shaw Cable 4..

The amateur video was created
by four members of the senior
centre: Jim Baird, Derek Hatch,

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developed. One hopes it then
reveals a number of imaginative
solutions to establishing sym-
pathetic but stimulating lifestyles
for an increasingly aging popula-
tion.

It’s your chance to help stir our
city fathers and mothers to take
the jiooming problem seriously,
It’s not hard work and takes only
the time you need to fill out a
comprehensive questionnaire
about what’s good, what ain’t.

You're asked to respond to all
kinds of suggestions for attaining
a generous ideal.

It doesn’t ask to be signed, so
be bold. Write down what you
think would make life easier and
more effective. For you.

Actual habitation is the rock-
bottom, of course, good space
and enough cupboards, that sort
of thing. But think, too, of daily
shopping and accessibility to your
friends and to transit and to
entertainment,

Neighborhoods are what most
people feel comfortable in, and
cities don’t offer much of that
nature. We're lucky, here on the
North Shore, where we abound in
neighborhoods. In Vancouver, the

Neighbourhood House, 225 E. 2nd
St., N.V. 4-3 p.m. Free drop-in in-
cludes refreshments. Everyone wel-
come. Back-up volunteer bingo caller
needed. Info: 987-8138.

THURSDAY

May 7--Ongoing. N.S. Keep Well free
drop-in program, 8:40-11:30 a.m.,
W.YV. Seniors’ Activity Centre, 21st &
Marine Dr., W.V. 8:40 & 9:15 a.m.
mild exercise; 10:30 a.m. hands-on;
11:30 a.m. hot lunch (24 hr. reserva-
tion required). Also: pharmacist in at-
tendance; income tax assistance avail-
able. Info: 926-4375.

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May 7--Ongoing. Seniors’ drop-in.
Pick-up at Lions Manor or arrive on
your own. 1:15-3 p.m., recCentre Ron
Andrews, Info: Phytlis, 929-8937 or
John, 987-PLAY.

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May 7--Ongoing. Bingo, [:15 p.m.,
Silver Harbour Centre, 144 E. St.,
N.V. Info: 980-2474.

Sunday, May 3, 1992 - North Shore News - 35

411 Seniors Centre down on
Pender dreams of creating inner-
city enclaves like mini-towns,
which could be peopled by those
who need connections. That in-
cludes, besides elders, the foot-
loose young, the physically handi-
capped, the young beginning fam-
ilies.

Should their plans come to frui-
tion, it will develop small
realizable enclaves where people,
not the towering buildings, are the
first factor.

A large proportion of our pres-
ent seniors’ accommodation of
any kind, anywhere, is given over
to elderly ladies living genteely on
the basic government Old Age
allotments. As far as we can pres-
ently prognosticate, the women-
men ratio will alter little, the de-
mands on our males, from iafan-
cy, rendering them the more
fragile.

But the old ladies of previous
generations are not to be taken as
models for what’s coming. Even
those of us who currently qualify
by age are much more worldly-
wise than our mothers.

’Think of the style of old-
ladyhood that will be the norm

May 4--Ongoing. N. Shore Chapter of
North American Chronic Pain
Association (NACPAC). Regular
meetings for support and self-help.
Info: Joan, 985-8304.

FRIDAY

May 8-N.V. City Residents 55 plus
Housing Survey; 1:30-3:30 p.m.;
Silver Harbour Centre, 144 W. 22nd
Sc, N.V. If you want to participate
but are unable to attend, call
Lionsview Seniors, 985-3852.

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May 8--Ongoing 2nd & 4th Fri. of

each month, Take-a-walk pregram for
seniors, $2.25, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. N.S.
Neighbourhood House, 225 E. 2nd
St., N.V. Pre-register: 987-8138.
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May 8--Ongoing. Craft Circle. 1-3

p.m. N.S. Neighbourhood House,
B35 E. 2nd St., N.V. Refreshments.
Donations of craft supplies welcome &
volunteer craft instructors are needed.
Info: 987-8138.

seniors’ future housing needs

for our daughters. Like equating
space-ships with hot-air balloons.

What’s more, the number of
grandchildren being produced is at
a low level, and the grandmother
role is receding.

More and more children will be
delivered to the state scon after
birth, rather than into the arms of
baby-sitting grandmas. On top of
which, Statistics Canada has just
confirmed that marriage as an in-
stitution is vanishing. Well, the
old joke was ‘‘Who wants to live
in an institution anyway?” but
there goes another anchor.

Yet another bearing-wall is
breached, and vistas revealed that
we're not too crazy about con-
templating. .

Sco must we try to think of
every alternative — why not
“granny-flats’? and downstairs
suites, both of which solutions
seem to give municipal councils
blue fits? Both are a strengthening
of the raveling family fabric, both
offer that invaluable sense for
children of roots and strengths
and stability.

Forget the ghettos for isolated
old folks. Put on your thinking
cap.

SATURDAY
May 9-Ongoing. Learn to square
dance, lessons for people aged 60 &
older, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., W.¥.
Seniors’ Activity Centre. Info: Doreen
Siltery, 987-5397 oc 926-4375.
ene

May 9--Ongoing. Vancouver rape
relief training session for volunteers.
Info: 782-6212.

May 10--Ongoing. M.S. Society self-
help groups for varying needs. Info:
437-3244,

For more Coming Events see first.
page of Classifieds, What’s Going
Gn, or Kids’ Stuff. For arts and
entertainment listings see the
Around Town cclumn in Wed-
nesday’s North Shore Now sec-
tion.

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