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NEWS photo Cindy Goodman

VOLUNTEER FUNDRAISER Noreh Knapp dances for joy after receiving a $6,000 denation from
Garry Bader, area manager of the Royal Bank. The money will help fund an expansion to the West
Vancouver Seniors’ Activity Centre. ;

Centres beat funding crunch

DR. VERONICA DOYLE
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FUNDING IS. tight
seniors’ activities on the
North Shore, but that
hasn’t stopped some
seniors’ groups from pro-
viding needed services.

By Anna Marie D’Angelo
News Reporter

for At the Silver Harbour Centre in

North Vancouver, most money
raised for the 80 to 100 programs
comes from participating seniors
themselves.

‘We raise the majority of funds
through teas, bizarres, bingos, a
casino night — you name it,’’ said
Isabell Thon, executive director of
the centre located. at 144 East
22nd St.

The centre also receives money
from North Vancouver City and

tre as a private society that pro-
vides services for seniors that the
municipalities would provide:
under parks and recreation, said
Thon... : ‘ .

“The funding from the munic-
palities hasn’t been liberal,’ said
Thon, adding that the centre has a
desired status of being. a core- |
funded agency with the two
municipalities.

Meanwhile, Capilano Com-
munity Services Society's Seniors’

North Vancouver District.
The municipalities view the cen-

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1401 St. Georges Avenue, North Vancouver
(opposite Lion’s Gate Hospital Emergency)
Telephone: 985-8771

P.O. Box 12041
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Vancouver, B.C. V6B 4N4
(Harbour Centre)
687-5690

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