, 38 -— Sunday, October 6, 1991 - Nerth Shore News It’s IT’S A funny thing about fall. Here’s Mother Earth doing her best to settle things down fer the dormant winter, harvesting, ingathering, crisping leaves and putting the hex on flowers. While in plain sight, we, her creatures, are hurling ourselves at self-renewal and improvement at any cost. . She’s recommending hiberna- tion, while we’re plunging into the lists of courses offered in everything from winter herb- cultivation to tummy-flatiening. She’s bound she'll have us layered and protected against winter’s threat, but we're in a ferment for betterment after the careless summer interval. We seem never to have been released from the knee-jerk back- to-school response to September. So all the committees cchese, members bursting with new energy and new strategies for improving the world. No less than three times last month I was bidden to occasions for celebration by local organiza- tions bent on helping us carry out our good intentions. One was from the North Shore Caregivers Society, revelling in the prospect of new quarters in which to ex- pand their work. The new larger meeting-place is in Suite 8, 103 West 3rd St., bang off Lonsdale. Their linking up with their counterpart in West Vancouver has put juice into both groups and encouraged and broadened their efforts. Prior to their joy, the Special Services members, 60 of them, held a smashing big téa-party at their base in the West Vancouver Seniors Centre. This was to cele- brate their 16th year of acting as liaison to people ill or frail or confined, keeping in touch by telephone and helping with medi- cal appointments and even some shopping, if need is demanding. Some of those who drive and take responsibility for telephoning and keeping track have been doing this since the organization was founded. It was a properly celebratory tea-party. Mayor Sager was there, and. other civic lights, plus a plethora of fancy cakes and sandwiches. Eleanor Godley THE VINTAGE YEARS Local businesses had presented an astonishing variety of gifts for a draw of ‘‘door’’ numbers and a gentleman with a pleasart tenor sang Danny Boy, which set a nice refined tone. But then he and his pianist got together with some real hum dinger Al Jolson numbers that had all our old heads nodding in time with him. Mammy. In the last week of the month, the Keep Well Society held a health fair to show off its new drop-in centre, this one in Lions Manor in Deep Cove. They are now able to use on a weekly basis a pleasant room on the main floor of this new senicrs’ complex, for their regular checks of blood pressure and for chair exercises and massage. This special show-off day, they were spreading out for our infor- mation the whole range of their ongoing message about keeping aging minds and bodies in workable shape. They wanted us to know they’ve added mediation counselling to their regular check-list, thanks to the kindness of a local phar- macist. (He’ll advise you on what to discard.) And something called peer The Corporation of the City of North Vancouver ff MOSQUITO CREEK PARK PUBLIC MEETING Thursday, October 10, 1991 7:00p.m. - 9:00p.m. Westview Elementary School 1660 Bewicke Avenue in the Library Purpose: counselling can be made available, as can financial advice. They enjoy the occasional at- tention of a travel consultant in West Vancouver’s drop-in, as well as a reflexology expert, and a nutrition specialist is now an extra attraction in several of their loca- tions. The Nozth Shore Health Department’s dental arm can also be recruited when the need ariscs. A very interesting new section of great usefulness has been add- ed. This is called Nutrition Neighbours, which embraces the conviction that people will eat better and enjoy it more if in company. It's like going for a walk — you'll always go further and get more out of it with a companion. You and I know there are a lot of single occupants of seniors’ res- idences who are undernourished. [t isn’t always lack of food, it’s often simply the wrong kind of food that makes for poor nutri- tion. So, putting friendly company and good sense into the same pot proves a good recipe. They call it hibernation vs. cultivation “‘congregate meals.”’ All of the people who work at designing and instituting these programs are concerned that the aged enjoy their senior years. They may seem to nag, occa- sionally — ‘‘take that walk,”’ ‘teat those turnips’? —- but behind it is a the belief that keeping in good health keeps one in good spirits, as well. They really do want us to last so that they will continue to profit from our sturdy display of wisdom and gallantry. Europe? Travel? Volkswagen? 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