6 - - Sunday, July 9, 1989 = West Vancouver Villager

Seniors, busy homemakers
benefit from new service

SENIORS, BUSY parents, weekend vacationers and execu-
tive couples all have one thing in common: quick relief from
the shopping blues with a new service offered at SuperValu

in Park Royal.

Super Shopper will take your
grocery order in the morning and

deliver it later in the day. That’s:

the basic service. Throw in an ex-
tra dollar, and the shoppers will
pick up a bottle of wine for you or
perhaps drop in at the drug store if
that’s on your list.

If you’re not up to cooking at all
that day, you can have an endless
variety of individual dinners
delivered from the store’s delica-

 tessen. Give them a bit more
notice, and they’ll feed your party
of 20.

It costs $5 to have an order fill-
ed, regardless of the size ($3 for
seniors and. handicapped). The
delivery charge, if. you choose not
to pick up your own groceries, is
$2 ($1 for seniors and handicapp-
ed). The groceries themselves are
charged on your Eaton’s card, Bay
card, Visa or MasterCard.

For the. past month, Super
Shopper has been operated by Col-
leen Wyllie, the wife of store
owner Bob Wyllie. ‘“‘They were the
only peopie willing to pay for the
service,’’ Wyllie said of Super-
Valu. What with providing office

space, telephone lines and a
management fee, ‘‘it’s very expen-
sive to start up. ”

Although it may cost the store,
it pays off for the customers, who
have already responded positively
to the service.

And while having groceries -
delivered to their home may be
appreciated by busy parents or
couples on-the-go, for the elderly
or handicapped the Super Shop-
pers may provide more than just
convenience. | ©

“‘We're trying to run a hotline
for seniors,’? explains Wyllie.
“Some of them need more help

‘then just grocery shopping,’’ and

yet not know where to turn if they
need home heaith care or social
contact.

Wyllie’s: staff of four have
numerous referrals on hand, and
maintain a close working relation-
ship with the North Shore Infor-
mation and Volunteer Centre, who
provide them with information
about any number of agencies who

help seniors.
“Between all of us we've been
able to find anything anybody’s

asked for so far," Wyllie says.

One day, she hopes, government
funding of such services will mean
that seniors and the handicapped
will be able to order their groceries
free of charge. °

As it is, all shoppers may even -

be saving money by using the ser-
vice because they cut out the ‘“‘im-
pulse buying’ that almost in-
evitably results. from wandering
superraarket aisles.

Customers using the Super
Shoppers have their choice of the
between 19,000 and 20,000 goods
available at SuperValu, and can
ask the professional shopners for
advice on the daily specials and
other speciality items.

Although SuperValu’s selection
can fulfill most people’s needs,
says Wyllie, the shoppers are hap-

py to go into other Park Royal

stores to pick up particular items
for the extra $1 surcharge.

“I said we’d do almost anything
for people,’’ she says proudly.

For more information on Super
Shoppers, or to place your order,
call 926-2215 between 9 a.m. and
noon. Too rushed to even talk?
Simply fax your order in — 926-
1270 — during the same hours.

Pipeline route toured

WEST VANCOUVER residents were able to see the route
of a proposed watermain connection, which will traverse
Cypress Falls Park above the Upper Levels Highway, on a
July 4 tour put on by the district.

The $1.5 million pipeline will
connect Eagle Lake Reservoir #3
with the Greater Vancouver Water
District at the Westmount Pump-
ing Station (just east of the
municipal works yard).

For much of the year it will
supply a surplus of water to the
area.

“This will save money for the
purchase of water from the GVRD
as well as the pumping charges,’’
District Engineer Barry Lambert
told the Villager.

The pipeline will also mean bet-
ter water service to the west in the
late summer and fall when there is
a greater danger of Eagle Lake

_ levels falling, as occurred two
years ago when strict water restric-
tions had to be imposed.

Repairs and emergency work on
the water system will also be
facilitated by the new pipeline.

The 6,500-foot line will, howev-
er, traverse about 1,200 feet of
Cypress Falls Park, necessitating
the falling of ‘ta few’? young trees,
- according to Lambert.

: “No first-growth trees will have
to be cut,’? Lambert said.

The fine will also be expensive
because it crosses difficult topog-
raphy and will have to be built to
withstand the high pressures ex-
erted by the water from the Eagle
Lake systein.

The route chosen, however, is
the safest and least expensive of
the five alternatives that were
looked at.

- The first alternative was rejected J

by: the ‘Highways Department
because of its proximity to the
Upper Levels Highway.

The other alternatives either
brought the water in at extremely
high pressure or involved the
disruption of roads and residences
or travel over steep topography.

Alternative 5, the one chosen,
was deemed the. least expensive,
while minimizing water. pressure
and posing the least threat to resi-
dents,

:. It. does go through as -yet
. undeveloped British Pacific Pro-
perties land, and the municipality
will have. to cover the. cost of
future relocation of pipeline that
may be necessary.

But Lambert is confident that
such relocation, if required, would
not occur for some time.

The added water service will
benefit future developments in the
area, but Lambert says that devel-
opers are routinely required to help
finance the extra municipal. ser-
vices they require through devel-
opment cost charges.

The. provincial government has
agreed to finance about 25 per cent
of the watermain project, with the
rest to be covered by funds the
municipality borrowed some time
ago for such purposes.

Although the only indication of
the future pipeline through the
park will be a trail, the line will
run across Cypress Creek in full
view.

The municipality is proposing to
mask the line with a bridge which
will allow hikers to cross the creek.

At a meeting of West Vancouver
District Council, Ald. Carol Ann
Reynolds brought up several ques-
tions regarding costs and savings
related to the proposed project,
past: work done on the water
syst2m, and implications regarding
future subdivisions.

Lambert is preparing a report
answering these questions.

Work on the proposed pipeline
will take an estimated two months
with the beginning of construction
anticipated for this fall.

A second stage in the project,
planned for some years in the
future, proposes to extend the
cross country main up to Eagle
Lake (north of Reservoir #3) to
take advantage of the full static
pressure at that elevation.

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A BROKEN ankle has Nancy O'Toole (left) temporarily wheelchair-
bound, but thanks to a new shopping service she won’t go hungry. Col-
leen Wyllie (right) is the head of Super Shoppers, operated out of
SuperValu Park Royal. For a smali fee, customers can phone in their
grocery order and have it delivered to their door the same day. The ser-
vice also gives referrals to seniors seeking other helping agencies, will
make dinner for any number of people, and even pick up ¢. bottle of wine
or drugstore prescription for you.

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