Tree time

BEAVER Bobby Zutlo,
left, and his Cub brother
Jason promote
Christrnas tree sales at ©
Park Royal South in...
West Vancouver. Trees ©
are available for pur-
chase. daily to -
Christmas Eve. :

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Deana Lancaster,

News Reporter > --

deana@nsnews.com

KNOW who you are

. giving money to this .

Christmas season.
-That’s the message from a

number of North Shore char- ©

ities'who. say there is at least
"one" group canvassing door-
-to-deor, asking for donations,
"and they might not be exactly
who you think they are... -,

7. “T think - most reputable
charities do not canvass: ‘door.
“ to-door any ©. more,” said

: Diana Cowden, of the North _

Concems ra

_. Vancouver ‘Christmas Bureau.
“We don’t. Neither does the

~ West Vancouver Santa Claus

Fund or the Harvest Project.”
However, an organization
called Canadian Charity Assist

Society is knocking on North‘
Shore doors for, “Children’s

Needs Christmas Hampers.”"
“The

money .to provide turkeys and
~ hampers to ingle parent fam-
fies...

Delta, Surrey,. Langley, Maple
* Ridge,” Pitt: Meadows, Por

“ organization’s. .-
brochure says: itis collecting. - frc

Its. “Single Parent Family |
Food: Banks”. ‘are located in

Coquitlam, Coquitlam, ‘Pert’:

Moody,. Vancouver, Burnaby, -

New | Westminster ' and
Richmond. ~~ Loe:
. There isn’t a. Canadian

y Assist “Society. food

bank” or. office anywhere: on
the North Shor

S Foster ‘of the Harvest Project. ~

ont are collecting funds
sm this community and tak-
ing them: out “6f this commu
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he ‘North-

.He said many North Shore .
‘yesidents work. in Vancouver:
“and other. communities and
want to help support single
“parents in those areas; |
‘charities} don’t “i

“(Other
anvass door to door, so we
ure’ doing something. com:

jctely different, We are. ‘not

invading their territory.”

He said the'society ha d not
_ established a Single Parent’:

Food Bank.on this Side of the
intet,, because -* “we' never got

round to it. There didn’t <|

séem to be as much of a need