Dundarave’s

BY ANDREW MeCREDIE

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Community Editor

LIKE the plants she so
lovingly nurtures in the
flower cart parked in
front of her Dundarave
business, Lily Fales is
full of fife.

Considering that she start-
“ed in the flower business 45
years ago, if Fales were a plant
she'd be a perennial,
“I knew in Grade 8 1 want-
ed to be a florist,” says the
_ cheery shop owner.

:Mames Lily Fales
“Bee Vancouver
Cela: te ferev: Owsier of Flowers
-by Lily in Dundarave for past
233 years.
Foverite pleco oa the Harta Shara:
““Dundareve. | don’t know of a

Hl pretty village anywhore.” .
Taking ths bus from Vancouver

at the beginning of every sum-

mer along Marine Drive to

catch the terry to Fassage

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long-

33 years in Dundarave

For the past 33 years, Fales
has owned and operated
Flowers by Lily. in the West
Vancouver community of
Dundarave.

“Itall started as just a week-
end conversation with my
brother who was operating
Al's Meats at the back of the
IGA store,” Fales says of her
decision to open up shop in
Dundarave. “He said I should
go into business for myself,
and before 1 knew it T was run-
ning a store at 2456 Marine
Drive.”

The early beginnings were
marked by the growing pains
of West Vancouver in the
1960s.

“When I first moved over
here from Vancouver there was
no boulevard,” recalls Fales of

her April 4, 1963 opening. :

“There were vacant fots all
over the place-and we still
waiked on wooden sidewalks.

Move ahead three decades °

and Dundarave shares little
with that picture. Save Lily.

She credits the municipali-
ty of West Vancouver for turn-
ing the area into the popular
sow of shops and restaurants it
is today,

As for her, she credits her
positive outlook on life to the
joy she gets from her uperat-
ing her business.

“It’s my get-up-and-go, my
reason for getting up in the
morning,” Fales says of her
flower shop. ;

She also feels a debt of grat-
itude to the many faithful cus-
tomers that have allowed her
t0 live such a happy life,

Over the years they no

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lasting Lily

longer are customers,” Fales
says, “They become friends.”

Indeed, Fales is linked to
many West Vancouver families
through that most-family ofall
activities: the wedding day.

“T guess [ realized Pd beers
here awhile when I started
doing weddings for the kids of
the people whose weddings I
did originally,” Faies says of the
ultimate in repeat busingss.

Lily Fales helped plant the
seeds of Dundarave Village
over 30 years ago. She contin-
ues to reap its harvest today...

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