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Page 34, May 2, 1979 - North Shore News |

_ Latest food costs
on the increase |

The Vancouver Average
Basket : Price _Tecorded. a

moderate: increase. of 0.35 |

per cent from the previous
four weeks, rising to #60. 44.

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A substantial increase in

-the Fresh Fruit component

was partially offset by a.
Sharp decline in the Fresh

Vegetable component.
. i oe

The latest Vancouver
Average Basket Price is
13.25 per cent higher than
one year-ago and 22.85 per
cent higher than two years
ago, Compared with 14.4 per

cent and 24.13 per cent,

respectively, in March,
1979, This reflects the
moderating of food price.-
increases over the past four

‘weeks.

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THE

HER INTERESTS are as diverse as her life has been hectic se = Dorothy (Consuelo) Pocatatirelaxes in the sunshine and
recounts.the adventures “ helped form her.

One woman's life

Telling it like itwas...vivid

By MARILYN JOHNSON

Artist, poet, psychic.
She is all of these, but
simple labels don’t
begin to describe the
; dynamic and involved
personality that is
. Dorothy Poésiat, of
West Vancouver,. who
is more often called
Bo’ or ‘Consuelo’ than
Dorothy and whose

story reads like a
colorful tale out of the
Arabian Nights.

Where to begin? Perhaps
at the prison camp in Java

This week’s special

ae)

during World War II where
she helped a nurse, tend to
the needs of the other
prisoners at the age of 12...

However, before that, she
and her younger brother
were at a private boarding

school in the south — of .

England, .where Consuelo
had been since the mature
age Of six years, in the
company of other children
whose parents were off
‘making or supplementing
their fortunes abroad in such
places as Iridia, Malaya,
Java, or anywhere else.

“It was a very avant-garde
boarding school where.
everyone ran around

‘recalls

suitable

{Ellsworth Dickson photos)

7

’ - .

barefoot and naked to the
extent of hardly wearing
anything at all:”

.Did she miss hier parents?
“Yes, horribly. You cried
your éyes out.”

.

At the same time she

grounding in all of- the
classics, as well as the
feminine |

complishments,. and “doses.

of everything, including
riding, etiquette, and
, French.” “

x

“I was supposed to be
fairly finished at the age of
12: And I was. It nearly
finished me off.”

getting a“ good.

x

ac- |

*

‘She had been raised in
Java before being shipped to
England... Her first
babysitters were the sailors
on the ship that took her (at
8 months) and her parents to
Indonesia; where her father
planned to raise sugar.

The move dismayed. her
English mother’ con-
_Siderably, as she had settled
quite cosily in Amsterdam
with her Dutch husband ‘and |

had been happily — an-

ticipating a life of stability
and collecting antiques.

Consuelo says that her
ancestry on her father’s side,

CONTINUED ON PAGE 35

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