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Geritol generation |
shedding its image!

ALL-IN-THE-MIND DEPT.
‘25% of North Shore residents

Good fiews for AP senior
from U.S. gerontologist Dr.

Donald Watkins. You' re not nearly, as old as you think.

Scems the greatest ‘confirmed
age was reached by‘a Japanese:
gent who died in 198@-at 120.-So
this, says Dr. Watkins, has become/
our technical life span (TLS) and,

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! delighted his cars “just 4 couple of.
| Sundays ‘ago. Butiit's already dis-
tant music for one of the North
Shore* 5 most popular clergy. .

/ Among the last rituals perform.

“all the present age categorics mu t! jes here by Rev. Bill Perry — for

", be revised. Now, therefore, “ag
“ ed’? means 90’or older (75%
imore of the TLS); "elderly" /
means 80-89; ‘aging’ meand 72-
79; and ‘‘middle-aged"’ megns
- - 60-71 (at least 50% of the TLS).
_ _sThese new classifications of the
: Geritol, generation obviously pul
1 the 40- 60s into the “youth” cate: ,
"gory — with the under-40s reduced
flo aging adolescents! A

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GREAT NEW MUSIC tor. singing
the old. hymns at 29th and Marine

» TOPS, IN
from SFU’

nine years the widely loved |.

‘ minister of West Van Presbyterian

,Church ~— was the dedication of its
"fine new organ to the memory of
‘two of the congregation's early | -

” members, Dougal and Gladys

McDonaid. Days later he departed
to take up his new ininistry at St,
Andrew's Presbyterian Church in
Penticton‘and it's likely to be quite
atime before his permanent ‘suc- / i
cessor is chosen, Meanwhile, an i
interim shepherd, Rev. George ;

2Philps of White Rock; will be ten-
ding Bill's West Van flock.

/ HITHER AND YON:

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Cc hurch organist Melinda Coffey
of North Van, incidentally, i is no
stranger to many Gredter Van-
couver music lovers. She’ $co-

principal, with North Van’s Gene .

Ramshottom, of the Ramcoff
Concert Society which has won ac-
claiia for its noon-hour classical’.
‘concerts at the Art Gallery and
B.C. Tel Theatre. At last Oc-
tober’s Commonwealth Con-
ference here Melinda played for
Prince Philip and, with the Ram-
coff Trio, entertained Jamaican
‘Prime Minister Edward Seaga,
' “ ees ee .
It's “Coun-
try Fair" season for the blazer-
and-tic-schools — this Saturday,
May 7, being the turn of St! :
George's at-4175 West 29th over-
town. Publicity: ladies Susan Lewis

and C athy Schmon promise ‘value ;

and fin’ at the popular annual
event which features pony rides,
arcade, midway; flea market, fash-

. Jon, crafts, country kitchen and a

silent auction from 1] a.m. to 4"
p.m. ... Railway history buffs of
the West Coast Railway Assocle-.
tion hold their first outing’of the:
: Season ext Saturday (May 7) with.
a trip | from-Nanaimo to’ Colirtenay .
and ‘back to Victoria‘on the Es-
_quimalt & Nanaimo passenger -

train. Tickets ($75) include tunch |.)

ard return bus/ferry transport
from Vancouver. To go along for '
yithe ride, call -$24-10114. Congrats
‘to Carson Graham grad Ruby,
Nagelkerke winner of SFU's
General Chemical Scholarship for):

the university's best fourth-year

chemistry student ... The same
again (o Dianna Mikkelson,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.-Jobn ./
Cox of West Van, who's been |

named to the Dean's List’at Nor- ..

Up ~ thwestern College in St. Paul,
Minnesota, where she’s a senior in

psychology «.
to buy plants, hold your hoes until
this weekend is the message from
Jack Wilks, president af the West
Van Kiwanis Club which holds its
big annual plant sale Saturday: and
Sunday, May 7-8, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m,
each day at Kiwanis Hall: 2179
Gordon. Praceeds to the club’s
many good causes —- and it could

fand organist Melinds Coffey. ‘

. And if you still have.

solve your Mother’s Day gift pro-
biem, tool | ,

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"WRIGHT OR WRONG — from

former hockey goalic Jacques :
Plante: ‘How would YOU like a

job ‘where, if you make a ‘mistake,

a hig red light goes ‘on nand 18, 000

: people boo?’

3 to avoid! reoccurrence ‘made. ° Ie
of angry ‘hornets ‘moving in- -On- fleeing’

jBui aur s ngineei ing: -department is “launching an.
V ‘othe; reo!
th provin if) oteson if- necessary, vand: int
ngineers - -Association ;
ation Board are’ also ‘Associate’ Editor...
Advertising Director. Linda Stewart |

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