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January 6, 1985

Grocery

slips add up to

Harbour?”

Most peopl: know what
Silver Harbour is and the
part it plays in the lives of
seniors on the North Shore,
so they are usually more than
willing to comply with the
request.

The collector of the sales
slips is John Hadinger, a
sprightly man who celebrated
his 83rd birthday last month.
He joined Silver Harbour in
1975 and almost unmediately
embarked on his campaign of
collecting the slips, which
Super-Valu redeems by giv-
ing a $20 voucher for every
$5,000 of value.

With these vouchers Silver
Harbour purchases items to
use for presents for their bir-
thday parties. There is a par-
ty every month, and cach per-
son present who has had a

‘birthday that month receives
asmall gift, beautifully wrap-
ped by one of the members.
Another member does all the
purchasing. '
' Hadinger is the prime. ex-
ample'of the work ethic that
some of us remember, Com-
ing from Hungary in 1927 at
the age of 25, he settled near
Estevan, Saskatchewan,
where he worked on a farm

‘for $5 a mouth, paid by the
government. He recounts
with humor how he milked
10 cows before breakfast and
the same 10 after work.

When ‘the drought of the
depression years made farm-
ing too difficult, and there
was nothing left but Russian
thistle and grasshoppers,

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7 G ae vow Hadinger moved to
HOLDING UP. a 42 inch sales stip, collected for Silver Harbour seniors’ centre in North Raymore, a small town north
Vancouver, is John 'Hadinger. The 83-year-old man collects the slips from Super Valu cus- Of Regina, married, then

tomers in Lynn Valley. Centre, and for every $5,000 worth of bills, the store gives a $20 moved to Regina in 1938,
voucher. : : " i where he and his wife Erna

! lived for the next 36 years.

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IF YOU DO your grocery shopping at the Super-
Valu in Lynn Valley Centre, you may be accustom-
ed to being asked, ‘‘Are you going to use your sales
slips?’’ The answer usually being no, the second
question is, ‘‘Wouid you give them to me for Silver

By RUTH PHILP

When he applied for a job
in a creamery, he was asked
‘what he knew about the
business. He admitted, ‘I’ve
never seen the inside of a
creamery, but I’m willing to
do anything."' [t was this
spirit that got him the job,
but it was hard work, often
18 hours a day, that kept him
in it for 27 years, where he
steadily advanced, obtaining

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“the has collected
a total of
$274,272... ”

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a grader’s and tester’s license
and retiring with a gold
watch, which he is proud to
display. i
Even after retirement, | he
was rehired for two more
years, but it was about this
time that he succumbed to
the repeated invitation of his
son and daughter to move to
Vancouver. One selling point
was mild Vancouver winters,
and both John and Erna ap-

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preciate the milder climate
after years in Saskatchewan.

In 1974, while wandering
‘through Lynn Valley Mall, as
it was then known, he was of-
fered a job as caretaker.
After repeated offers and
after consulting his wife, he
decided to accept. Once again
hard work and dependability
made him indispensable to
the management, and, when
he insisted he really wanted
to retire, they offered him the
easier job of watchman,
which he held until 1982.

At Silver Harbour, John
Hadinger is already a legend.
In the past three vears, he has
collected a total of $274,272
in sales slips. His prize is one
42 inches long which shows a
total of $283. It is not
unusual for him to collect
$1200 or $1300 in an after-
noon, but his best was the
day before his birthday; on
December 18 he collected
$6,026.58. -

A favorite quotation,
brought from Hungary, is,
“A bashful beggar has an
empty stomach.’’ Hadinger
doesn’t believe in being
bashful. He brings to his self-
imposed task the same en-
thusiasm, commitment, and
sheer enjoyment‘ that has
characterized his whole life.
This is a man who thoroughly
enjoys what he is doing, and
the people of Silver Harbour
hope he will be doing it fora
long time.

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