Former

Vikki Finkbeiner
Centributing Writer
“IVE covered a lot of
ground. Tough times
require tough mea-
sures,” says Clifford
(Cliff) Sadler, recalling
the Depression years on
the Prairies. “Here on
the coast, I soon real-
ized I had a talent for
promoting and selling.”

He adds with a broad
snide that has proved as usefial
as a door key: “1 worked hard,
f knew what F wanted and
went after it... as simple as
that.”

An enterprising teenager in
Elgin, Maniteba (his birth-
place), Cliffdrove the school
van, as they called it, for
$1.50 per day.

“This was a canvas-covered
sleigh drawn by two horses. It
was kept warm in -40°F
weather by a pot-bellied stove
with a stack going through
the roof. | would swish a bit
of coal! oil over the wood to
light the fire ... one swish did
the trick,” he recalls.

“Imagine doing farm
chores for $10 per month.
The farmer paid me S5 and
the $5 the government gave
him for my food, so I saved
$40 in five months.”

Cliff chuckles: “I was on a

_ roll, I caught 1,000 gophers
at 2 cents per tail bringing my
total wealth to S60.”

Cliff headed west after his
19th birthday. His Brandon-
Vancouver return cost was
$38. He landed a job with
Kelly Douglas — $16 fora
48-hour week — and stayed a
year.

Then Westons Bakery
signed him on, driving a truck
with no side doors, delivering
bread ftom door to door.

“Shortly, 1 shifted to
Home Bakery in North
Vancouver, one year later
became a partner.”

Later with the financial
help of five working partners

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CLIFF Sadilev’s career has taken the retired North
Shore realtor from baking bread to making dough. At
80, he remains active in curling and other pursuits.

and a loyal staff, he bought

Home Bakery and changed

the name to Family Bakerv.
“{ stuck to the promotion-
“As a teenager,
Cliff drove the
school van ... a
canvas-covered
sleigh drawn by

two horses.”

al and administration end of
the business,” he says. “We
built a larger shop in Burnaby
and became the largest inde-

pendent bakery in B.C. We
turned out 2,500 loaves of
bread per hour, 16 hours per
day, plus assorted pastries, and
had 84 delivery trucks.

“We held monthly parties
with food, music, dancing —
the works, for the emplovees
and their families — and in
the summer, picnics. We had
lots of fun.”

Cliff spent 29 years in the
bakery business. He adds,
flashing the Sadler smile, char
he was unemployed for three
days before arranging a com-
mission job soliciting mem-
berships for the North Shore
Winter Club. He signed up
more than 300 new members
in a one-year period.

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with a difterent kind ot
dough,

With the lovalty of triends
he spent 29 successtill vears as
dreahor -~ 16.as top salesman
with Crest Realty, then a tew
vears with Sutton Realty
before his retirement,

On September 1, 1995,
Chitfwas presented with a cer-
tificate of recognition for 25
years of continued service asa
member of the Canadian Real
Estate Association.

An active Eagles Lodge
member, Cliff was also vice-
president of the North Shore
Neighbourhood House. The
Lower Lonsdale piayground
was named Sadler Park in his
honour. The present-day
North Shore Neighbourhood
House now stands at the site.

There is nothing more
valuable than friends, says
Sadler.

“Lan gratefid for the fel-
lowship of the North Shore
Winter Club and the Capilano
Winter Club and the triend-
ship of unose E have worked
with throughout the vears.”

Now ar 80, he has recently
organized six rinks of 80 and
over, fora three-day men’s
bonspicl.

Cliff says smiling: “I still
enjoy golting, cuding and pro-
moting. Hev! Whatever — Pil
take a crack at it, be ita good
deal, curling rocks, golf balls
or gophers.”

Sunday. December 20. 1998 — North Shore News —- 214

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