10 - Friday, January 26, 1990 - North Shore News Christmas drive deemed a success MORE THAN 900 needy North Shore families had cause to cele- brate after receiving food hampers, vouchers and toys from the two local Christmas charities during the Christmas season. By ELIZABETH COLLINGS News Reporter Although the number of North Shore families increased by 200 from the 1988 Christmas drive, the North Vancouver Christmas Bureau and the West Vancouver Santa Claus Fund were able io mect all requests, aided by the generous donations from the community. “It was busy right up until I walked out of here at quarter to one on the 22nd of December,”’ said Pat Orr, Christmas Bureau coordinator. In all, the Christmas Bureau served 656 North Vancouver fami- lies, comprising 250 food hampers, 406 food vouchers and 856 toys received by children from visits to the Toy Shop. More than $34,085 has been raised through the Christmas Bureau to date with money still be- ing collected and counted. An ad- ditional $5,000 was raised from donations at various credit unions on the North Shore. After the Christmas Bureau’s Operation costs are paid and $5,000 saved for next Christmas, the money raised will be given to the North Shore Family Services to be used throughout the year for families in crisis. Schools, local businesses, firefighters, churches and charitable groups helped make the drive a success by donating money, food and time. Volunteers were in- strumental in collecting food donations from North Shore News sponsored food depots to the Bureau and the Santa Claus Fund. Groups included in these fund- raising efforts were the North Van- couver Chamber of Commerce who raised $1,000 by selling hot chocolate at Lonsdale Quay, the North Shore Credit Union who donated $1,000 of toys, the Highlands United Church with $1,271, the North Vancouver Kiwanis Foundation with $2,000, and Unit No 45 of the Army, Navy, and Air Force Veterans with $5,000. “It’s beautiful. There’s all these people that work together and get behind the Christmas Bureau. It’s a great big team. Really no one person is greater than another even if they give greater amounts,” Orr said In West Vancouver, 251 food hampers reached needy families (up from 215 in 1988), and 181 children received toys. Although the figure is not of- ficial yet, Ruth Stout, the, Fund’s executive officer, estimates that approximately $20,000 was raised during the Christmas season. ‘*The donations were fine. The schools were good and Sentinel was terrific. We had to go back three times with the truck, so you can imagine how much food and clothes they got,’’ Stout said. Puppet workshop held NORTH VANCOUVER’S Mar- jorie Woods will be giving a pup- pet-making workshop at The Fourth Puppetry Extravaganza at Robson Square Media Centre on Saturday, Jan. 27. Presented by the Vancouver Guild of Puppetry, the one-day event consists of five, half-hour shows beginning at I1 a.m. As well, various demonstrati.ns and workshops will be held throughout the day. Special guest master puppeteer Dirk Oertel will demonstrate the art of puppet carving. Doors open at 10 a.m. Admis- sion is $3, 35 per cent of which will go to the Children’s Hospital. For more information phone Woods at 987-3725 or Beverley London at 926-2276. Art groups to meet NON-PROFIT art galleries and Lower Mainland arts organizations will meet this Saturday, Jan. 27, at Deep Cove’s Seymour Art Gallery to discuss art in the community. Event coordinator Susan Aoki said the one-day seminar will give local groups an opportunity to ex- change ideas about the operation of non-profit art galleries and to work together to raise cultural awareness. She said there is little network- ing between Lower Mainland arts groups and that the seminar will allow participants to find out “‘who’s out there, who’s doing what, what’s working and what isn't.’” Victoria museum and art gallery Glass exhibited AWARD-WINNING North Shore artist Morna Tudor’s work will be on display at the Andrighetti Glassworks Gallery in Vancouver. Entitled Ebb and Flow, the show is a collection of blown glass shell-like forms. The pieces reflect Tudor’s vision of the intertidal zone of coastal B.C. Meet the artist at an opening reception from 6 to 9 p.m. on Fri- day, Jan. 26. Regular gallery hours are between 12-6 p.m., Friday to Sunday and by appointment Mon- day and Tuesday. The show runs until Feb. 16, advisor Diane MacKenzie will speak to the group. We’d like to say “Thank you”’ North Shore Family Services Society wisnes to thank the following companies and in- dividuals for their help in making the Fourth Annual Winter Family Ball on December 17, 1989 a great success: SPONSORS North Shore News Bull, Housser and Tupper Grosvenor International Intrawest Properties Ltd. North Shore Credit Union CONTRIBUTORS B.C. Rail Canada Safeway Champagne Taste Valerie Coles Earl’s Restaurant Ltd. Hemlock Express George Jarvis Terry David Mulligan Ocean Pacific Trading Inc. Rapid Signs Shaw Cable Wayne Soper Studio Christina Janet Warren & the Argyle Carollers Baker Lovick Advertising Canadian Airlines International Classic Limousine Service Eaton’s Gary Grafton Karo Design Resources Le Chocolat Beige Daniel North Shoré Credit Union Ragfinders ,Decorative Fabrics Royal Lepage Real Estate Services Shoppers Drug Mart Peter Speck Van Dyke Studio Ltd. 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