18 —Sunday,'May 24, 1987 ~ Nerth Shore News

Options for North Shore volunteers

THE North Shore Information
and Volunteer Centre has over 200
requests for volunteers from
various non-profit agencies across
the North Shore. Here is a sampl-
ing. The volunteer centre is a
United Way member agency.

ACTIVITY AIDE needed on Fri-
day afternoons at a drop-in centre

THE FIRST in a series of locally
produced scuba diving television
programs will air May 26 on Shaw
Cable, introducing Pacific Diving
to North Shore viewers.

“I think that diving is really
misunderstood in Vancouver,’’
said Ross Hales, service manager
at Capilano Divers Supply, which
is working on the program.

“People think that what’s
churned up by the ferries — that
brown muck — is what we dive in.
The majority of the peosle don’t
understand the potenti,

‘Particularly in the summer,
there’s some spectacular diving:,’’
Hales said.

Pacific Diving’s first program
May 26 features interviews with
the publisher of a dive magazine, a
charter boat operator and a local
wetsuit manufacturer.

A segment on diving at
Whytecliff Park shows non-divers
what goes on beneath the waves at
this popular and beautiful West
Vancouver scuba diving haven.

“This is for people who have
been to Whytecliff who have seen
divers going in when they’re hav-
ing their picnic. They can find out
what it’s all about.”’

A new show each month will
feature diving-related topics such
as the sharks of Hornby Island,
local shipwrecks and the diving
resorts of British Columbia.

‘“We started to do the program
to promote diving on the North
Shore. ! would like to think that
we would inspire some non-divers
to give diving a try.”

The 8:30 p.m. show airs the last
Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday of
the month.

High school
bands battle

TWO AWARD-winning North
Vancouver high schoo! bands will
be performing at the B.C. Festival
of the Arts at Duncan on Van-
couver Island to June !.

Argyle Secondary senior concert

_ band and vocal jazz choir will be
playing at the five-day event,
which draws students from schools
all over the province.

Handsworth Secondary’s senior
band will also vie for a top spot
after a showing at the recent
Pacific Coast Music Festival quali-
fied it for this festival.

Handsworth’s band recently
returned from Hawaii, where the
group was the only Canadian entry
in a festival featuring school bands
from around the world.

Classifieds
Sell
986-6222

for seniors located in the Lonsdale
area. An interest in current affairs,
chess, crafts etc. would be helpful.

GROUP LEADER needed for six
to 2-year-olds at a day camp for
an integrated program for able and
disabled youngsters. The children
are taken to Cates Park and enter-
tained with games, crafts and
special outings. Volunteer can doa

half day or full day 9 a.m. to 4
p.m. Camps begin june 29 with
training and orientation from June
22-26. Young teen and older teen
volunteers may apply.

COMPANION needed for a
good-natured elderly man. He is
living in a nursing home since his
retirement and feeling a bit lonely.
Would like someone to go for

NORTH, VANCOUVER

walks with and visit over tea.
SENIORS HEALTH FAIR. Vol-
unteers/participants needed for
health fair to be held Sept. 21, 1}
a.m. to 3 p.m. This will be follow-
ed by weekly wellness drop-in pro-
grams fur seniors beginning
September 28th. Volunteers for
both the fair and drop-in will be
trained in August.

PARTICIPATION DAY volun-
teers required to answer phones on
shifts for the day itself Wednes-
day, May 27. Shifts vary
throughout the day from 7 a.m. to
10 p.m.

For these and many other op-
portunities on file at the volunteer
centre, call Irene or Joan at 985-

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ALL IT TAKES is 15 minutes of any
kind of activity and a quick phone cali to
986-2002, or a visit to our headquarters at
Capilano Mall, saying you did it to help
North Vancouver beat Richmond and Halifax
in the Participaction Challenge Take noie of
special events and activities being held at
Capilano Mall, Lynn Valley Mall, Fitness and
Recreation.Centres, and your local parks.

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