July.6, 1988." News 985-2131

Classified 986-6222

‘ Distribution 986-1337

20 pages’

SAFEWAY HOLDS BIRTHDAY BASH

Party honors local
98-year-old ‘shopper —

LONG’ TIME WESTVIEW resident Arthur Cragg turned 98 :
recently, and his: friends at Westview Safeway wanted him

bo celebrate with Style.

“the focal: food store had
Crags and his wife Anne picked up
in a black limousine and delivered
to the store, where they were ed

-comed by 40 family, members’ an

- Safeway employees; who- greeted

WESTVIEW SAFEWAY. takes’ |

“Veare) of its own,: as:loyal cus-.
tomer Arthur Cragg found out.”
when the store gave him a 98th’:
birthday party. Left, Cragg cuts:
the cake with is ‘

THE PARISHIONERS of St. Mar
are raising the roof — literaily.
cadn fact,’ the’ whole of the’ Upper
Lonsdaie church, first. built at 195
E. Windsor in:4921, has been‘ rais-
ed. and ©.the: baseméniy gutted ‘ to”
- make way -for_a‘new. lower floor.”
‘that. Rev, John: Bailey Says | be
much | more: useabie fot e modern

: currently underway
sace for the Sunday
School, ‘ussery;- s choir;
“vestry and church offi

“estimated -the “st cructure

~ NEWS photos Nell Lucente

b S il li @
fola. sly redesigning: the basement,”
says Bailey.:

" “We had no choice. (but to ren-’

‘ovate),’’ ie: ‘continued. ‘‘The
church was :going to “fall down_'*
Engineers’ who: had. studied: the
foundations -of the, butiding” had
had only
“three more years of us

. measuzes'were tak

Rather

in the Westview store,

. Thomas and hei

of St. John’s .

So Std,

wishes, cake,
congratulatory

hem with | best

balloons. and a

sign. . :
“I've known Mr. Cragg as long

_ as. I've worked here,”* said Betty

Edge, a 25-year Safeway employee
who has worked the past 14 years
“Everybody
ted to have
excited,”?

. Cragg walks

knows him. We w
(the party)...we wer
According to E
to the Safeway store every two or
three days front his. home ‘on
Westview: Drive: to do his grocery
shopping and have a chat with the

checkers. .

“His longevity is pariy dues ia
Safeway. =~ he, walks here “every
day to see the girls,’’ joked son Dz..
George Cragg.

Cragg -began
when he arrived:

life. ja Canada
fram England ¢ at

“the age of 21.

A builder: by profession, he set-
ded in-Peace River, Alberta, unsil
moving to Vancouver ia 1940.

The Craggs have Jived on
North Shore for. since 1946,. mov-
ing: from” theie house in. the
Highlands to their current home

con Westview. in 1961. Their entire
family: — consisti nig of son Dri

Cragg and” his. wife Margaret,

daughters. Ena Colmer: and Kay:
usband. Angus, -
seven grandchildren and. 13 great-
the

grandchildren. —- lives, on,

: North Shore,

Driv Cragg, says ‘his father . still
mows his own lawn, gardens, and
does a little carpentry.

“He is very witty and humor-

gets a

“ church, Bailey’ says they “chose to

preserve the historical -building”’
and just redo the basement.

The building does have a Jong
history, as does the parish.
St. Martin’s. began, under the
name of St. Thomas, as a mission
Anglican Church in
1910,
Ch sirch

Sto. Th omas’

tics,” said Dr. Cragg.

‘1951;

Vofirst met hun

ous; and just loves debating poli-
“*Reading
history is. probably his . favorite

hobby. But the best part about him:

is that he’s a good family many...

“he loves all his children and grand- -

children, and especially his wife.”

Anne Cragg, who will turn 96 in
1988, and her husband. will cele-
brate their 76th wedding anniver-
sary this year.

Even the chauffeur hired for the
occasion has.connections with the
North Shore family. ios

“Our whole family have been

patients of Dr. Cragg since’!we :

came to Vancouver in 1951, “said

- Harald Siegler.

Dr. Cragg began practising! in
51, in_an office built by. his ifa-
ther at 1146 Marine Dr:
Vancouver, 8

At that. time, il there | was “a
Safeway store right across: tt
street, and the v Sle Cragg famliy.
shopped | there hen the’ store
inoved «to -its’turrent: Westview
focation, the elder Cragg began his
shopping: sojourns tothe new
Westview store,

Joan Freaibd, a checker a! the
Wesiview Safeway for the past 20
years, says she hasn't” noticed
many changes in Cragg -sitice. she
20 years. ago. «| ‘

“Ho's. a real: gentieman,
suid, ‘*a real happy individual.”

Store manager Barrie. Rough
says he and:the checkers planned ~
the. party: ‘petween them. after
Crage mentioned his birthday was
approaching.

+

she

“They (the .checkers) are his |

friends,’”-he said.
the old fellow.”*
Cragg. has -
Safeway,.too.. ;
“The food's pretty good,” “he
smiled: “The girls ure pretty good,

“They -all Tove

high praise... for

* t00.""

facelift |

meeting for the first 13 years ina
hall: at the: northwest corner: of
Lonsdale and: Queens.

edits name to St. Martin’s, after
‘the . soldier’ .saint who: is com-
memorated on November °1f, in
honor -of Armistice Day. and? in

See Members.

becatie a parish in itscown- right, *

in, West .

In.
-November 1919, the’ parish chang-—