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NORTH VANCOUVER Christmas Bureau chairman Barbara Armour poses with some of the special toys to be
given to North Shore needy boys and girls. Armour has looked after the distribution of the toys to disadvan-

taped families for the fast 13 years.

CHRISTMAS BUREAU STORE

. Van toy shop
shes come true

IN NORTH Vancouver
there is a toy shop where
Christmas wishes come true.

By STEPHEN BARRINGTON
News Reporter

Unlike Santa’s famous toy shop
where elves labor continuously,
this toy shop is more of a4 store —
one providing free toys to the
needy to make Christmas a bit
more merry. ;

Operating out of a donated
store, North Vancouver Christmas
Bureau's Toyshop is a place where
needy parents can come to select
toys for Christmas morning.
“The gifts we give out are new
or near-new toys,’’ explained
NVCB head Ida Paddock. And
parents can select more than one
toy to give to their children,
“because all kids get more than
‘one toy at Christmas.”’

The NVCB gets a list of poten-
tial Toyshop ‘customers’ from the
Ministry of Social Sevices and
Housing and then makes private
appointments with peopie.

Paddock said the typical
Toyshop ‘customer’ is a_ single
mother with two or three children.
“We are trying to service the
poorest of poor children.’”

When they arrive at the
Toyshop, they are waited on by the
volunteer staff. if the children
come along, a staff member will
mind the tykes while mom shops.

It is just like a real shop, said
Paddock. ‘‘They do everything but
pay.”

Providing toys for children up to
the age of 14 years, the Toyshop
carries dolls, bikes, skates and
games among its large collection of
playthings.

As well, parents can choose
clothes for their children. ‘‘We've
got knitted sweaters that are just
gorgeous,’’ Paddock said. ‘‘All the
sweaters are new.”’

Last year, the Toyshop gave out
thousands of toys to over 1,400
families.

Five years ago, 350 families used
the Toyshop. By 1986 the number
tripled.

year than we’ve ever had in the
history of the Christmas Bureau,”’
said Paddock. With five volunteers
it is a lot of work.

Being a charitable organization,.
the bureau must rely on donations
to stock the Toyshop shelves. So
far, Paddock has received few
corporate donations.

“Any corporations on the North
Shore see themselves as a Lower
Mainland corporation,’’ she said.
But Fisher-Price did donate 30 new
plush toys.

Most of the support comes from
local small business and communi-
ty groups.

One group helping the Toyshop
all year is the Highlands United
Church women.

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NEWS photo Stuart Davis

“Not only do they earn the
money to buy the materials, but
they make things all year and
deliver them and then come and
work in the store,’’ said Paddock.

“They’ve done a_ tremendous
job — they’re a fantastic group of

a compeny or group cannot
help financially, it can donate
time. Last year, a group of men
from a local company dressed up
as elves to deliver toys.

Donations of toys may be drop-
ped off at any of the Christmas
Bureau Food Drive depots, mark-
ed by the colorful News banners,
window screamers or posters.

For more information call the
Toyshop at 984-TOYS.

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