6 - Sunday, December 11, 1988 - North Shore News

for live-alone s

FOR THE ELDERLY who live on their own there’s an

worth of peace of mind for both, in fact.

strokes, people in their seventies
onward quite often fall and can’t
get up — like the 86-year-old
North Shore woman who, seven
months agy, lay on the floor for
two days before help cazce.

The H.E.R.S. she now has con-
sists of a neat little box on which
the phone stands and a small pen-
dant transmitter worn on a chain
around her neck. Anywhere in her

It’s called H.E.R.S., though it’s
for grandpas as much as grand-
mas. The letters stand for the
Home Emergency Response
System launched last spring by the
non-profit North Shore Home
Support Services (formerly Vic-
torian Order of Nurses). Their
number is 984-9511.

In addition to heart attacks and

preschool lost its previous accommodation.

Logging priority
HE REQUEST of Lions Bay Council for a log-
ging moratorium above the Squamish Highway
is part of a growing wave of discontent by B.C.

citizens against logging practices in the province.

Lions Bay says iogging above the highway disturbs
the topography of the area and is therefore a threat to
motorists on the accident-plagued highway below.

Native groups, trying to preserve thousands of years
of their heritage, protest the destruction of forests in
areas such as the Stein River Valley — the last unlogg-
ed watershed in southwestern B.C.

Scientists point to dwindling forest resources as one
causatory factor in the increasing greenhouse effect.

Hikers want natural wilderness parklands. En-
vironmentalists bemoan the incredible amount of
timber that is wasted by logging firms; an investigation
into a single MacMilian Bloede!l operation revealed
that the company had abandoned enough material at
one logging site to build 2,660 houses.

The growing fears of these varied groups can no
longer be ignored. It has been reported that the three
man-made conditions visible on earth from space are
the Great Wall of China, the fires raging in the forests

_ of Brazii — and the clear cutting in British Columbia.

The forests ministry must address the concerns of
focal citizens. Reactionaries who use the number of
jobs created to defend current logging practices will

have to recognize that the preservation of our forests

for future generations may have to take priority over
present-day economic concerns.

87¢-a-day gift their families might well consider. A daily 87¢

INSIGHTS

An electronic guardian

eniors

home, away from the phone, 24
hours a day, she can press a button
on the transmitter and a coded
emergency message flashes to a
central monitoring station at Lions
Gate Hospital. They call right back
and if there’s no answer, help is on
its way in minutes.

The H.E.R.S. units — made by
Candel Industries on Vancouver
Island — cost $420 and are owned
by the NSHSS, which rents them
out at $26.50 per month, or $20 if
the renter also uses a NSHSS
homemaker. NSHSS director
Hilary King says almost 100 have

WEWS photo Wall

HANDS-ON PARENT PARTICIPATION! ... Village Preschool parents Tom Evans (eft) and Murray
Saunders prepare finishing touches to the portable which the 32-family group bought and renovated when the

been installed to date on the North
Shore.

The $5,000 monitoring station at
LGH, was made possible by a
North Van Rotary Club gift from
money raised at last February’s
Capilano River Duck Race. But
now, Hilary adds, they have an
ongoing need for donations to buy
more units. So if you don’t yet
have the problem which H.E.R.S.
solves, that’s another pessibility
for your Christmas gift list!

eter

SELF-HELP DEPT.: The 32 fami-
lies of the Village Preschool had
every reason for pride when they
showed off their new classroom on
the grounds of Highlands School
at yesterday’s open house. Forced
out of the Highlands School
building after it years by increas-
ing enrolment, they faced a bill of
some $35,000 for the portable
needed if the preschoo] was to sur-
vive — and never faltered. Though
aided by grants from the Van-
couver Foundation, Victoria and
corporate donors, and a hook-up
refund from North Van District,
they still put up $12,000 of their
own money and renovated the por-
table with their own hands. It was
a notable neighborhood effort and
when they talk of OUR preschool,
the term now has a very real mean-
ing.

ete

WRAP-UP: Still a few tickets left,
reports Arfene Gladstone, execu-
tive director of North Shore Fami-
ly Services, for their Winter Family
Bal! next Sunday, Dec. 18, at the
Pan Pacific — but don’t delay any
longer before calling 988-5281 or

Publisher Peter Speck
Managing Editor... . Barrett Fisher
Associate Editor Noel Wright
Advertising Director Linda Stewart

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ARLENE GLADSTONE
«..“‘Don’t miss the ball!’’

you may be out of luck ... Con-
grats, by the way, to Ariene and
her colleagues on winning the
United Way’s Employee Gold
Award, preseated last week by UW
director Gordon Stewart in ap-
preciation of the support received
from Family Services siaffers ...
Back from the recent annual con-
vention of the National Tour
Association in Kansas City,

is breathing a sigh of relief now
retiring 22-year menager Peg
Pitt-Brooke has agreed to soldier
on another six moaths to ensure a
smooth transition. She'd originally
planned to leave Dec. 31.

ean

WRIGHT OR WRONG: A stitch
in time saves nothing if what the
garment already needs is nine.

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