VOLUNTEERS RELIEVED

Fiousing for
approved in

REZONING for a senior citizens housing complex on the
south side of the 2100 block Marine Drive was approved by
West Vancouver District Council last week.

The three-building, 56-unit
apartment complex will also in-
corporate office space for the
North Shore Volunteers for Resi-
dents in Care Facilities. This space
is being donated for community
purposes by the developer, Buron
Housing Corporation.

“H's a tremendous relief. We
have had some concern regarding
our accommodation,’’ ‘North
Shore Volunteers director Wendy
Hanna remarked following coun-
cil’s decision.

North Shore Volunteers, which
administrates about 500 volunteers
and the many activities they orga-
nize for local senior citizens, is

Tequila
shenanigans

THEY WERE off and
running at the fifth an-
nual Deep Cove Tequila
Hunt held at Panorama
Park. More than 100
people involved in the
event combed Deep Cove
for hidden treasure
Saturday. Highlights in
the car rally included
costumed contestants (top
photo), a doughnut eating
contest (right) and well-
dressed dudes, like hippy
Bill Codville (above).

currently housed in dilapidated
quarters in’ West Vancouver that
are rumored to be scheduled for
demolition.

Rezoning for the Buron project
was quickly approved, but only
after months of revision, mostly to
reduce density end mass. The pro-
posed building cluster will be
primarily two storeys, rising about
35 feet above Marine Drive.

Council’s demand for a lower
1.05 density, necessitated a reduc-
tion from 85 to 56 of the planned

units, Buron complied but in order
to maintain financial viability and
affordability, the suites will be
kept down to 950 square feet.

“It’s a major reduction ... but
this project is going to be a feather
in our cap because it's such a nice
design,’ John Nicholls of Buron
Housing Corp. told the News later.

The three buildings have peakes!
roofs and a ‘‘homey’’ quality.
Nicholls said that Buron will agree
10 a covenant ensuring the apart-
ments be sold for the use people 60
years of age and older.

“St will have a distinct seniors
flavor to it,’’ said Nicholls. ‘The
site we are proposing to build on,
we feel is idea} for senior citizens
with proximity to shopping and
transit,’’ Nicholls said.

But one senior citizen objected

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seniors

Van

that the project was located so
close to other senior citizens hous-
ing and the senior citizens centre.

“You can’t make a ghetto out of
senior citizens By all means
build it — but Iet’s not dump it all
on top of the senior citizens cen-
tre,’’ said Harry Binks of Sinclair
Street.

Other residents supported the
proposed housing project, in-
cluding Brian Hanna, president of
the West Vancouver Kiwanis Club.

Nicholls said that Buron plans to
sell the apartment suites, most of
them two-bedroom units, at mar-
ket rate, which is currently $125 to
$130 per square foot.

Buron must still return to coun-
cil for design approval,

a
Weather:

Wednesday and
Thursday, mainly sunny.
Highs near 14°C.

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LGH PATIENT CARE

Ambulatory program
gets $33,000 boost

A TEAM approach to patient care in Lions Gate Hospital’s
ambulatory program will continue after a local research

program
$33,000.

This is the third year for the
program, which has received
$85,000 to date from the B.C.
Health Care Research Foundation.

Dr. Stephen Milstein, the pro-
gram’s research consultant, said 90
patients in the ambulatory
department are being treated by a
team consisting of a physician,
nurse, occupational therapist,
physiotherapist, speech pathologist
and social worker.

Patients having suffered a
stroke, a neurological disease or
trauma need the services of at least
two members of the medical health
team, he said.

“The benefit of the team ap-
proach, we think, is that it will
have a greater impact on the health
of the patient...you’re treating the
whole patient.

“The goal of the program is to
improve the functioning level of

received a provincial

government award of

By KIM PEMBERTON
patients,’’ said Milstein.

Patient progress is being com-
pared against 90 patients at St.
Paul's Hospital, who have com-
parable health problems. But
unlike LGH, these patients are not
being treated by a team, he said.

Besides determining how effec-
tive a team approach is in the
treatment of ambulatory patients,
the research will include a cost
analys:s.

The program is expected to be
completed next March.

The Lions Gate Medical
Research Foundation initially pro-
vided a grant of $4,000 to help the
researchers prepare a proposal for
the B.C. Health Care Research
Foundation.

WW. SHORE CANCER SOCIETY SEEKS $253,000
Donations sought

CHARITABLE DONORS should be more careful with
their money, according to the Canadian Cancer Society.

“People are very generous but
they don’t know where their
money goes,’’ said Debby Altow,
an administrator of public rela-
tions for the Canadian Cancer
Society, B.C. and Yukon division.

The society is working on its
annual April fund-raising cam-
paign, and the North Shore units
are hoping to collect $253,000 this
year.

Altow said that although half of
the money raised in B.C. goes to
the national society, more money
came back to B.C. last year.

B.C,’s “world class level’? of
cancer research brought in $2.3
million in grants and personnel
support from the research arm of
the Canadian Cancer Society,
(CCS), this year, she said.

Donations to the CCS are spent
on a variety of services to cancer
patients and to the public.

In B.C. last year, the CCS
hosted summer camps in Sechelt
for children with cancer, and gave
over haif a million dollars in fi-

By JUSTINE HUNTER
Contributing Writer

nancial aid to needy patients. They
also offered subsidized shelter for
out-of-town patients receiving
treatment in Vancouver and Vic-
toria.

The West Vancouver unit
brought in the highest per capita
donation in the Lower Mainland
last year, with an average donation
of $2.9 per person, said Norma
Sharp, fund-raising chairman for
the West Vancouver unit.

Sharp, one of 600 volunteers in
that unit, has two problems to
overcome in this April campaign.

The first difficulty will be
reaching all the residents from the
Capilano River to Horseshoe Bay.

“There are numerous apafrt-
ments in West Vancouver, and
they won’t let our canvassers in.
We have to do a_ personalized

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