NEWS photo Mike Wakefield

GRACE Kindt and Chad Peever gear up for Saturday’s Swing Dance at
Neighbourhood House. The dance is part of the 60th anniversary celebration.

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not allow on-site bottle:
crushing and must have all
operations carricd out within
the building.

The centres, said Bell, are
clean, and allow people to

_ rinse out cans and bottles at
sinks.

‘Coun. Janice Harris, who
voted in support of the bylaw
along with Coun. Trevor
Carolan, said at the mecting
that the centres should be an
integral part of a shopping
area.

Concerns about extra traf-
fic and noise resulting from
the centres, she said, are
unfounded. .

“Ft should be convenient
to you. It’s part of your life
that you go to Parkgate, you
go shopping, you go to the
library and you drop off your
bottles. There’s not going to
be a surfeit of traffic because
you’re already there,” she
said.

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on NIMBYism (Not In My
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WHEN Grace Kindt
moved to the North
Shore just over a year
ago, she had never
heard of
Neighbourhood House.

Now she can tell you
something about every decade
of its 60-vear history.

Along with other members
of the archives committee,
including former board mem-
ber Bette Rumble, Kindt, $0,
has spent the past) three
months organizing boxes of
newspaper articles, pictures,
annual reports, and docu-
ments into dinders.

For this weekend’s 60th
anniversary bash, the commit-
tee will be displaying that
material to give visitors a sense
of the long and rich history of
the place Kindt calls “the gem
of Lonsdale.”

“There have been lots of
times that I don’t know whar
people would have done with-
out Neighbourhood House,”
she said. “I wonder how many
people really know what a
valuable they have here?”

Now offering @ vast array
of recreation and social pro-
grams, from infant care to
seniors’ peer counselling,
Neighbourhood House began
as a place where working par-
ents could: entrust their chil-
dren to Neighbourhood
House caregivers.

According to — Shirley
Markides, the daughter of
Neighbourhood Honse
founders Rose and Hugh
Beattic, it all began with a
knock on the family’s door on
a “wet, dark, miserable
evening at about cight or nine
o’clock.”

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ts 50th anniversary celebra-
tion, recalled that there were
three adults at the doer. Thev
told her mother they had
heard that many neighbour-
hood children came there
during the day, and asked if
they could come in and dis-
cuss it,

“Dad was net home,”
Markides wrote, “and Mom
was really Jeery of asking, in
strangers. But they were asked
in. ... To me, thar was the
beginning of North Shore
Neighbourhood House.”

She described how the
group got hold of a con-
demned three-storey tene-
ment building, behind the
post office on 2ad Street and
Lonsdale Avenue.

Neighbourhood — House
moved several times over the
years. It moved to its current
location at 225 East 2nd St. in
1966.

Markides’ parents and the
three people who had shown
up at their door fixed up the
building, which had chronic
Jeaks, no heat, no lights, and
no running water.

During the First World
War, when young women
worked in the shipyards, Rose
Beattie and others cared for
the children of the women
shipyard workers.

Throughout its history
Neighbourhood House often
broke new ground, offering
programs or advocating for
those in need.

Teen programs were start-

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ed in the °50s, when voung
people with nothing to do
were causing trouble. Sports,
crafts, sociaf nights, and: sup-
port for pregnant teens were
some of the many programs
offered for young people.

The community centre
often reached beyond its wails
as well. During the °70s,
North Vancouver City
responded to pressure from
Neighbourhcod House mem-
bers to provide low-cost hous-
ing. People from the House
were aiso instrumental in a
successful campaign to pre-
serve a parcel of land in Lower
Lonsdale, which became
Waterfront Park.

Kinde says Neighbourhood
House made it easy for her to
make friends and feel com-
fortable in her new home on
the North Shore. She joined
the Golden Circle seniors
group, participated in several
bus trips, and spent many
hours volunteering.

This Saturday’s anniversary
celebration will feature: music
and entertainment on the
gym stage beginning at 10:30
a.m.; floor demonstrations
and dancing beginning at 10
a.m.; puppet shows and kids’
movies in the Little Theatre
beginning at 10 a.m.; and a
barbecue on the deck garden
starting at noon.

Tickets are still available at
Neighbourhood House for
the Swing Dance, starting at 8
p.m. on Saturday. ‘Tickets are
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