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SOME 18 months ago the
popular Cloudesley Shovell
Quenton Hoodspith, former
Lions Gate Newspaper
owner and publisher, pilot,
reporter, champion skier,
tennis player and all-around
good sport, was rushing

time that he would even survive
the trip to the hospital and had to
get the jaws of life to cut him out
of the wreckage.

The ambulance attendants kept
tatking to him to keep him from
going into a coma and rushed him
to the hospital in Squamish then
transferred him to Lions Gate
Hospital where he hovered be-
tween life and death.

After some tine, they did get
him stabilized and then transfer-
red him over to Shaughnessy,
where he stayed for several weeks.
AS soon as he was stronger, they
moved him again, this time to the
G.F, Strong Rehabilitation Centre
to begin his treatments and his
return to a new life as a
quadriplegic.

After more than 18 months of
recovering from that near-fatal
automobile accident, a long time
filled with struggle and pain, hope
and humor, Cloudesley was
recently discharged and sent home
to Squamish.

That’s where | talked to him
earlier last week. He can't say
enough good things about the care

more for himself every week and
he sounds just as chipper and
cheerful as ever!

To show just how much better
and confident he’s feeling, he and
Dorothy flew to Edmonton to at-
tend the annual convention of the
Canadian Community Newspaper
Association.

Cloudesley is a past president
and he wouldn't have missed it
for the world! Good on you, Mr.
Hocdspith! You’re a shining ex-
ample of what someone can do,
once they make up their mind to
do it...

The Variety Club’s chief barker,
Art Jones of Mulgrave Place in
West Van, is feeling pretty good
these days. In fact, he’s definitely
on cloud nine!

Seems that the Molson Indy
people have selected the Variety
Club as one of the recipients of
their fundraising ‘‘Indy Eve.’”
This is the pre-race gala dinner
party which will be held at the
Vancouver Trade and Convention

NEWS photos Paul McGrath

SOME OF the 250 guests joining Mary Collins last weekend were North Vancouver District mayor

Murray Dykeman and his wife Lorna along with Anne and Peter White.

about putting his editor’s
touch on his Squamish
newspaper so that he could
get up to his Whistler
newspaper office.

The date was Jan. [1, 1991. He
was in his small car.

The weather on the Squamish
Highway was atrocious. It was
freezing and very slippery and
black ice was everywhere. Sud-
denly a larger automobile, heading
south, skidded on a patch of
black ice and plowed head-on into
Cloud’s car.

The car was demolished and so
was Cloudesley. In the fraction of
a second his life was changed for-
ever.

They were not even sure at that

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and consideration he’s received
from the Workers’ Compensation
Board.

The Hoodspiths now have a
new wing on their house, complete
with ramps and other special facil-
ities. He is getting around well on
his two different wheelchairs —
one power and one manual — so
now he can do his own wheelies in
the nearby cul de sac.

If he hadn’t been in such great
physical and mental condition and
been born with that stubborn, in-
dominatable spirit, he’d never
have made it. But with the help of
his angel of a wife, Dorothy, and
his live-in attendant, he’s doing

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Sunday, July 26, 1992 - North Shore News - 19

NORTH SHORE MP Mary Collins hosted a ship-board reception
last weekend with guests that included Admiral Summers.

Centre on thunder Thursday,
Aug. 27 at 6:30 p.m.

Besides the gourmet feast,
there’ll be high performance rac-
ing cars, celebrity drivers, lots of
entertainment, prizes and trips to
Indy races across the continent.
Tickets are $110 each, issued with
a $60 tax receipt.

Variety’s special children and
St. Paul’s Children’s Projects will
both be the beneficiaries of this
very exciting summertime event.

Be advised that dress is ‘‘casu-
ally elegant with racing colors.”’ .

Art and his wife, Mary Jones,
have another reason to celebrate
as well. Their son, Martin, has
just been appointed president
and chief executive officer of
Corby’s Distilleries Ltd. Martin
had previously been vice-president
of marketing with Hiram Walker
in Windsor before being named

executive vice-president with them
in Toronto.

Associate Defence Minister
Mary Collins looked very chic ina
pink linen suit last Friday night as
she hosted a very pleasant cocktail
reception on board the Canadian
frigates HMCS Saskatchewan and
Yukon. Both ships were anchored
at the cruise ship terminal and had
arrived to take part in last
weekend's Sea Festival activities,
along with the HMCS Oriole.

Besides Mary, Admiral Sum-
mers proved a very gracious host
to his 250 guests, who included
several members of the Consular
Corp. and the business communi-
ty. My, those young sailors looked
so fresh and so well turned-out in
their summer whites ... Cheers!

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