24 - Sunday, February 17, 1991 - North Shore News ~ Don't be coy, just try Roy SAY YOU’RE new to this shore. Say you still don’t know your neighbors, that you still aren’t sure of bus routes and where to go for a walk. Try Roy. Say you've lost your longtime companion. Say you've been keeping yourself to yourself, hug- ging your loss. You're almost afraid to try people again. Try Roy. Say you’re recently retired, armed with a sturdy list of things you want to do, people you want to court. Say it hasn’t worked out that way, and you have that awful feeling of just spinning your wheels. Try Roy. Roy Jantzen, that is, who is the current outdoor recreation facilitator for the North Shore Neighbourhood House. Okay, so you don’t like the Outdoors? You haven't tried it with Roy. If ever anyone can make you feel blessed just to be giving a crust to a squirrel, it’s Roy Jantzen. He’s so full of enthusiasm for what he does, and so creative about involving you in it too, that you find it impossible to reject him and his marvellous plans. Part of this, you see, is that he genuinely enjoys grown-up people like us, wants most earnestly to tap our philosophies and our outlooks, and to understand the processes of life. He’s been studying us at Simon Fraser University, in a program based on the psychology of adulthood and aging, and is pres- ently at Capilano College doing what they call a practicum, which simply means he’s practising some of the theory by putting it to work with actual aged people in actual situations. That’s why he thinks he’s so lucky to be able to work out of the Neighbourhood House with senior adventurers. It’s his job to plan ‘‘out-trips,”* which involves busing a group to a specific location for viewing eagles, or whales, or ancient carv- ings, or for the experience of ski- ing or hiking or taking photographs. He has suck a good time doing this that people who have been on one trip want to go on them all, just for the pleasure of his joyful company. He actually iikes seniors and thinks they have so much to con- tribute to him that the job he’s been given is a sort of gift from heaven. There was an especially felicitous journey in January to Brackendale, in the Squamish neighborhood, in order to view eagles. As in most cases, partici- pants had been advised to bring a bag lunch, but this time the local Art Gallery invited the troupe to bring their food inside, where they were able to buy soup and bever- ages and enjoy the paintings at the same time. And the eagle experience pro- duced 12 of the elegant masters of North Van INTERIOR & EXTERIOR No job too small Industrial © Residential e Commercial e ‘Spray or Brush Painting 27 years experience “NOT THE BIGGEST BUT THE BEST!" PROGRESS DESIGN & PAINTING 1397 Charlotte Rd. Tel. 987-8764, 929-1451 Wes Thompson Cel. 250-1712 Eleanor Godiey THE VINTAGE YEARS the skies. Roy said there was a lovely unexpected response fromthe gathering of people in the nesting area hoping for sightings. A hush fell on everyone, voices dropped without anyone’s having said, “sssh,’? breath was held. He’d not experienced that kind of behavior before. . Obviously, he’s an out-of-doors type, besides having a very active curiosity knob. He’s worked at summer camps with kids and teenagers, sometimes groups of troubled children. But he says seniors engender a special pleasure simply because they are so ap- preciative. They don’t take atten- tion for granted, and thoroughly enjoy every part of his tours. He’s got a current list, which you can get from the Neighbour- hood House (call 987-8138), which covers the rest of February and the month of March. Want to trace petroglyphs on Gabriola? Want to honk back at a sea lion? Costs are very modest. Then there are the shorter afternoon trips, onc o’clock to 4 p.m., which offer a rich variety, all the way from a visit to the Museum of Anthropology to a tour of Andres Winery. You can see what goes on in the Kerridale Seniors Centre or visit the Grouse Mountain Theatre in the Sky or go watch Robert Heid blow glass in his studio, and if you have some place in mind that you're longing to be able to get to, tell Roy — he’s looking for further ideas, because he’s hoping to be able to run these excursions all summer long. As for those opening lines, ‘about being a stranger or depress- ed or isolated, this is how you come back together again. Being with people your own age, free in the woods or on the seashore, open to nature’s healing. Roy Jantzen’s kind of gather- ings will loosen up all that sort of restraint and constriction. You'll see. PRE-SUMMER SPRUCE UP e Wall covering Signed Jack MacMillan Mary MacMillan NEWS photo Terry Peters BIG-HEARTED Horseshoe Bay Community Association recently contributed $21,000 to the car- diac care unlit at Lions Gate Hospital. The money will be used to purchase one of six new cardi- ac monitors needed in the unit which treats more than 1,000 patients each year. Receiving the cheque is (from teft) LGH president Bob Smith and chief of cardiology Dr. Ken Woo from trea- surer Jeanette Keller, secretary Betty Anderson, and aseociation president Julian Alfreds. : The lucky winner and guest will get picked up in a-chauffered limousine and be taken to the Queen Elizabeth Theatre for the Juno Champagne Reception and Awards Show. Afterwards your limosine will take you to dinner at Cafe ROMA and then home. “EWEN TIE? I ANNIVE RSARY SUNCGAY - WEDNESOAY « FRIOAY