Bureau volunteer
the rules of charity early

“eo. pureal. Fund scramble to fill need

IDA PADDOCK learned
the unspoken rules of chari-
ty early in the game.

By Elizabeth Collings
News Reporter

She was six when she gave up
some of her toys just before
Christmas. It was during the
Great Depression and the North
Vancouver Christmas charity was
run by “Fire Chief Murphy and
the boys,"” as Paddock remembers
them.

Gn Christmas morning, she was
thrilled to see her good deed had
been appreciated.

“There I spotted my teddy that
I had given in the arms of a little
girl next door,’’ Paddock recalls.

She was about to rush out the
dvor to see the girl when her fa-
ther pulled her back into the
house with the curl of his cane.

The fesson learned then is one
that Paddock still follows: con-
fidentiality enables many people
to accept help while maintaining
their pride.

Now 64, Paddock has been a
professional volunteer all her life.
Married with four children and six
grandchildren, Paddock has vol-
unteered: with many organizations,
including the Elizabeth Fry Socic-
ty, the Soqualia Club and Lions
Gate Hospital. :

She was chairman of the North
Vancouver Christmas Bureau for
four years and now sits on the
North Shore Family Services
Society board,

. Community involvement and

‘volunteerism runs in Paddock’s
family. Paddock says her father,
former alderman Roy Hunter,
volunteered with more groups
than the family could keep track
of.

“When he died, we got letters
from the Chinese community. We
didn’t even know he was working
for them. He was a very kind
man, a philanthropist.”

The Christmas bureau is one of
Paddock’s favorite organizations
to work with.

“I love the Christmas bureau
because...who’s going to argue
with it?

“Christmas is a very emotional
time and if anyone feels alone and
blue, that’s the time. Really, you

learned

IDA PADDOCK, past chairman of tha North Vancouver Christmas
Bureau, says that North Shore residents are a generous bunch.
Last year, volunteers put in 1,291 hours of work for the

Christmas Bureau.

can’t do enough for these people
as far as I'm concerned.”’

Last year, Christmas bureau
volunteers logged 1,29! hours col-
lecting donations, preparing food
hampers and vouchers, setting up
the Toy Shop and getting the
hampers to the clients.

“It’s a heart-attack situation at
the end. People don't give until
three days before when they're
shopping in the malls and hear the
bells ringing."*

Paddock expects the bureau
may be needed more than ever
this year.

“f think the times are a little
tougher,”’ she says.

Bureau clients include the work-
ing poor, seniors, single moms
and, increasingly, single fathers.

Paddock recalls a former
bureau client who is now very
successful. Each year, he writes up
a gift list of what he'd like for
Christmas, shops for it, and then
donates it to the bureau.

“He says he has a heck of a
good time! I thaught that was
lovely,’’ says Paddock.

Before Dec. 17, non-perishable
foed donations to the Christmas
bureau and the West Vancouver
Santa Claus Fund can be made at
more than 20 North Shore loca-
tions, sponsored by the North
Shore News. Depot locations will
be published reguiarly In the
News.

In addition to food, new or
nearly new toys and money can be
donated at any North Shore Cred-
it Union, the Lonsdale Quay, and
the News offices, 1139 Lonsdale

NVSB has deficit of $5.5M

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teachers will receive a 14% salary
hike over two years.

But many school boards have
already. spent the money they sav-
ed when Lien rejected the collec-
tive agreements the boards had
negotiated with their teachers.

Player said that now Bill 82 has
been thrown out, the average
metro teachers’ salary will rise and
that in turn will cost the WVSB
an additional $200,000 that Player
said the school district does not
have.

“The only place you can save
money at this board is in the
reduction of staff because staff
salaries account for 86% of the
school board’s budget,’’ Player
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there’s no relief coming in the new
year.””

Jessup said that allowing the
NVSB to run up a deficit of 2%
will do little to help out the NVSB
because the school district current-

ly has a deficit of $5.5 million
against its current budget of
$86,323,854.

“The 2% deficit will not meet
our needs at all. In the first place,
running a deficit is new,’’ said
Jessup. ‘“‘According to the school
act, you cannot run a deficit. And
that money has to be paid back at
some point.””

The NVSB wrote Hagen asking
her to consider two options:

_ @ to give the NVSB an increase

in its block funding allocation;
® or grant it emergency funding.

But Jessup said Hagen rejected
the two options.

While Jessup said the NVSB
can pay North Vancouver teachers
the 7% wage increase in the first
year of the two-year contract, it
does not have the money to pay
the 7% in the second year.

Teachers’ salaries account for
67.2% of the NVSB’s budget.

To press time, the NVSB had
scheduled an emergency Friday
night meeting to discuss the issue.

Ave., North “ancouver. Toys ¢an
also be lefi si zeny North Shore
firehall.

For more infozmation, call the
Christmas bureau at 984-XMAS
(9627) or the Santa Claus Fund at
922-6522.

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