ADVANCED PACKAGING
METHOD AIDS SAFETY

Hollyburn Pharmacy of West
Vancouver specializes in both
individual and institutional
geriatric medical supplies, and is
a major supplier to Cedarview
Lodge in this critical area. With
a specialized computer to meet
the needs of both the public and
the- professionals, Hollyburn
supplies printed medication
administration records, patient

profiles and letters to the
physician where required.
CHALLENGING
MECHANICAL
CONTRACT

Cedarview Lodge is, in a
sense, a “climate controlled
community” and Westgate

Mechanical Centractors Ltd. of
Burnaby tackled a huge task in
the plumbing and heating con-
tract, which included the ultra-
effective double-tiered spnnkler
system. Fifteen years in

enviable reputation for excel-
lence and cost-effectiveness in
this field, and has played this
vital role in many other large
projects throughout the area.

Another useful innovation is
Hollyburn's specialized Medical
Delivery System — a bilister-
packaged ‘PCI’ system whereby
a person's daily medications can

be so packaged that the possi-

bility of error is all but elimi-
nated. This system is now
available to individunts as well as
to institutions. For Cedarview.
Hollyburn even supplied the
special medication carts already
painted in different colours to tie
in precisely with the colour--
coding in the different wings of
the institution.

In 1983, Hollyburn Pharmacy
commences iis 35th year in
business, and owner Ron
Ingraham has been in charge for
fourteen years.

BULLDOZER DID
GROUNDWORK

A building the size of Cedar-
view Lodge covers a lot of

ground, and one of the first acti-
vities on the site is the excava-

Walker Buildozing Co. Ltd. of
Delta was selected to provide
this ‘groundwork’ service and
performed with outstanding
competence throughout.

ADVERTISEMENT

f

Mike Knight, Pres.
Turnbul) & Gale

CEDARVIEW USED
LOTS OF LUMBER

The volume and variety of
dimension lumber, decorative
cedar and miscellaneous build-
ing-supply products, in a project
such as Cedarview Lodge. is
almost mind-boggling, and the
obliging and expert specialists at

FIRM CATERS TO
INSTITUTIONS

Strictly a meat supplier to the
hotel, restaurant and _insti-
tutional trade, Red Ribbon
Meats Ltd. of Richmond is one
of the firms supplying quality
meats to Cedarview Lodge, and
has been in the business for two
decades. Their expertise and
excellent product is appreciated
by the dietary staff.

Al3 - Wednesday, March 2, 1983 - North Shore News

NORTH SHORE FIRM FIRST
IN CANADA IN ITS FIELD

If cleanliness is next to godli-
ness, it’s also very, very close to
healthiness, and so is a primary
consideration in the planning.
construction and operation of
Cedarview Lodge.

Smitirite Disposal Ltd., head-
quartered in North Vancouver,
is in its fourth decade of refuse
and garbage disposal and is
indisputably the largest concern
of its kind in all of Canada.
Cedarview has contracted with

DRYWALL FINISHING IS
“MOMENT OF TRUTH!”

Drywalling — especially the
gyproc crack-filling — has been
called the ‘moment of truth’ in
construction, because no
amount of skill in sanding and
decorating can cover up an in-

EXPERTISE
IN MEDICAL
EQUIPMENT —s_|

adequate preparation job. The
tens of thousands of square feet
of wallboard and other materials
on the interior walls of Cedar-
view Lodge were installed by
W.R. Shields Contractors Ltd.
of Surrey. The company also
looked after the extensive
Acoustic ceilings and ali the
extenior stucco throughout the

td.
have played a vital role. The
Coquitlam company has been
supplying major projects as well
as individual home-owners for
almost twenty years.

MAJOR CONTRACTOR FINDS
CEDARVIEW ‘INTERESTING’

One of Western Canada's largest con-
struction companies has the vital role of
the
Cedarview Lodge project. Turnbull & Gale
Construction Co. Ltd has some fifty years’
experience in the area, and President Mike
Knight says Cedarview is one of the more

General Constractor on

Knight observes with some
satisfaction that the project
came mpretty welt on time -
except for a one-month strike

ALL-ELECTRIC
BUILDING ...

Elgar Electnc Co. Lid. was
selected to perform the exten-
sive electrical installations for
Cedarview Lodge. which is vir-
tually an “all-electric” building.
With its own outside substation
and with a substantial stand-by
power plant to provide sufficient
current for lights. elevators.
{reezers and emergency alarm
systems tn case of an outage.
Cedarview required experience.
reliability and cost-effectiveness
from their contractor in this vital
field

Elgar Electne installed the
extensive baseboard — electne
heating throughout the building,
which allows individual thermye
stats in each room permitung
every resident to select’ their
comfort zone |

sizeable

shut-down fast fall - and on
budget. He gives full credit to
the company’s team of super-
visors and workers headed by
Superintendant Karl Hippel.

Turnbull & Gale have left their
mark indelibly on the BC.
construction scene over the
years. They are contractors for

the current renovations and
addition to the old court
house/new art gallery in

GLASS ADMITS
LIGHT, NOT COLD

Sunlight and warmth are two
essentials for comfortable living
at Cedarview Lodge — but it can
be a challenge to provide exten.
sive windows which will not lose
too much heat in winter. The
vast’ glassed-in areas are all
weathertite for effective climate
control, and Main Glass Ltd
supphed and «nstalled glazing.
skylights, frames and aluminum
doors for the proyect with great
competence

interesting projects they have done.

“Any health care facility has by its very
nature a very strict building code and very
exacting specifications and inspections,”
says Knight,
stitution, that is especially true.”

“and with a geriatric in-

downtown Vancouver, the Terry
Fox Laboratory at the Cancer
Society headquarters, and the
new UBC cafeteria - believed to
be the largest cafeteria of any
kind in the country. Some
twenty years ago, they built the
Windermere school, largest tn
B.C., and have done the Bur-
naby Municipal Hall, and the
dome for the Bloedel Con-
servatory. They were structural
contractors for the Pacific
Marine Training Institute and
for the New Westminster Court
House - where they contracted
the extensive landscaping as well
- and despite the recession they
have a number of other projects
on tap. Their contracts average
around $20 million per year

At the peak of activity fast
summer they had 150 outside
workers on their own payroll
plus twenty inside They have
had some three dozen people
trom thei own forces involved
on the Cedarmiew Lodge proycct
for many months.

LEBLOND MADE GOOD USE
OF KEY CONSULTANTS

Modern design and construction requires specialized engincenng.
and Harry LeBlond Architects drew on the expertise of mechanical
and other professional consultants tw the planning supervision and

testing required at Cedarview Place

TOP ELECTRICAL
ENGINEERING

Cedarview Place is virtually an
‘all-clectnc building” with such
substantial power requirements
that a has ats own sub-station
and a stand-by power plant for
cmeorgoncy outage. R.P. Shafltk
Engincenng Lid) of 7544 Kd
monds St.) Burnaby are cle
trical consultants for the cntire
project’ and have brought a
wealth of capenence. expertise
aod tratning to bear in this vital
arca

STRUCTURAL
SOUNDNESS

An intermediate care tacality
must be an attractive inviting
place to live yet it must be both
functsonal and structurally
ound The four partnen of
Jones Kwong Kashi together
have more than ctighty years of
varted intensive and catensive
structural cnginccring cn
The West Vancouver
frm and tts principals have been
structurally responsable for some
sialy Proypodts

pertcace

Mapor

VITAL KITCHEN
EXPERTISE

Ihe kitchen is) a cntual
facility in tntermedinate care, and
LeBlond cngaged W Good
brand and Assoctates Lid of
North Vancouver. lood service
consultants and planners. for
expert advice in planning and
layout. in cquipment specifica
on and in recommendation of
feeding systems Project
Director Ernic Bodanky has tcn
years expenence tn thts field

LANDSCAPING
ARCHITECTURE

To ensure that upon com
plevon Cedarview Lodge wall be
as attractive and restful outside
asin. the services of Harry Lee
Haggard, North Vancouver
Landscape Architect wore
retained = Haggard’s work ts
lamitar on the north shore
inctuding design for both the
Tree Lynn and Lynn Valicy Co
operative housing projects on
Fromme tne beautiful Grouse
woods single family develop
meat on Nancy Greene Way
and many of the approaches and

ski runs foe Grouse Mountain
Shi Resort

182-YEAR OLD
FIRM SUPPLIES
KITCHENWARE

A British Columbia Company
with national affiltatsons 1s
supplying kitchen = cquipment
and kitchenwares to a number of
high-profile projects tn the lower
mainland this year including

Cedarview Lodge and the
Stadium at BC Place’ ABC
Cassidy Lid in Vancouver ts
part of the national Cassidy
Group) of Companies and
Cassidy is dhe oldest aame in
Canada’s history of Hotel &
Restaurant Equipment fine
China. and Giftware to (he

trade The original company was
founded tin 180t in Old Montreal
and has grown to where today
the Group just makes the Finan
ctal Post fist of Canada’s tore
most four huadred companics
Kitchenware and kitehen
cquipment ts vital to the health
and well-being of ('edarmicw
Lodge residents, and all thosc
responsible for the planning and
development of the facility are
preatetal for the capertise and
expenence of this old and large
company tn-sthe — field The
serviccable but attractive dishes
ond glassware (he stainioss sicel

kitchen cquipmeni COUNTOEN

cabinets carts ct al were all
supplied by ABC Casatdy on its
affilantos

‘leading hospital

One of Western Canada's
equipment
supply houses has brought its
knowledge and experience to
bear in the planning. equipping
and supplying of Cedarview
Lodge. Bowers Medical Supply
Co. of Richmond furnishes
wheelchairs, dressings, surgical
instruments and misc. medical
dressings to a host of acute and
intermediate care facilities
throughout the region. and
spacializes in prompt and ef-
ficient service. The length and
breadth of their experience is
important to the Cedarview staff
in this vital field.

Smithrite for the collection and
disposal of the mountain of
waste foods, medical dressings.
packaging etc. that emanates
from a large health-care facility.

Coming out of the navy in the
mid-40's, Ascher Smith went to
work cleaning offices and
washing windows. Soon he was
carting away office waste in a
second-hand pickup, and so
Smithrite was born. The
company has grown steadily for
36 years, pioneering many in-
novations and improvements in
disposal] containers, vehicles and
techniques. Today the company
has more than 150 employees,
operates 100 vehicles — most of
them the sophisticated blue
behemoths that are a familiar
site in the streets and lanes.

Spic and span waste removal
is appreciated everywhere, says
Smithrite spokesman Franco
Cecconi, “but it’s absolutely
essential in a health-care facility
like Cedarview Lodge. We have

.

the architect and the society
have been pleased with the
quality and proficiency of their
work.

WOOD PANELLING

Sauder Industries Ltd. of Van-
couver and Richmond supplied
ing used selectively in this inter-
mediate care facility. The archi-
tect and designers felt that wood
panelling is especially appro-
priate in a westcoast building.
and selected this 56-year old
local company to fill the need.

BLACKTOP PAVING MUST
LOOK, WEAR, DRAIN

The attractive entrance to
Cedarview Ledge, on a cul-de-
sac at the end of Cedar Village
Close near Kirkstone and Moun-
tain Highway is enbanced by the
superb blacktopped court,

OLD INSURANCE
FIRM PROVIDES
$8.5 MILLIONS

When you set out to build an
$8.5 million intermediate care
facility, where do you find the
funds? In the case of Cedarview
Lodge, with the assistance of
both federal and provincial
governments, the society ob-
tained virtually the eatire financ-

ing from Confederation Life
Insurance Company — a mutual
company inforporated in
Canada in 1871 The

$4,477,417 48 mortgage is
guaranteed and insured through
C.M.H.C . and repayment 1s
assured through the provincial
government's contribution to the
operating budget of the inst:
tullon However, the actual
finds came from Confederation
life. The old hie ansurance fiem
is a Canadian company which
also has offices in the UK.
t) SA. and the Caribbean = It
has) financed three = previous
intermediate care facilities and
Iwo semiors housing projects in
British Columbia in the past

driveways and extensive parking
areas. Premier Paving and Con-
struction Ltd. of Richmond, a
member of the Amalgamated
Construction Association,
specializes in industriat, com-
mercial and institutional work
including drainage and main-
tenance for mills, schools etc.
They design and specify accord-
ing to project conditions “from
the ground up.”

NOVELTIES, LOGO
FROM SAME FIRM

In addition to the colorful
novelty and gift items in the gift
shop, the Cedarview Lodge logo
design was supplied by Loder
Collier Co. Ltd. Says Loder
Collier representative, Bob
Fisfeld.

“We felt the logo design
should be contemporary, and
yet traditional enough to appear
to the wide range of ages in
volved in the Cedarview project
The cedar bough illustrated in
the logo ts an actual cedar spray.
photographically reproduced It
is symbohc of growth and the
aging process.”

The identity established by the
logo design was repeated in the
facility's stationery, com
memorative mugs, and wm f
shirts and caps for staff. rest
dents and those participating in
the opening ceremonies

a reputation for good house-
keeping and we are determined
to leave the waste-removal area
at Cedarview just as clean as the
entranceway, every visit.”
Smithrite made history again
last month, when it commenced
the first major municipal resi-

‘dential garbage pickup service,

for the City of North Vancouver.
The company is convinced that
contracted removal is the way of
the future for municipalities,
and hopes to bid for future pro-
jects in various parts of the
province.

“We have been providing
service to smaller communities
such as the University Endow-
ment Lands and Belcarra Village
for some time,” says Cecconi.
“Now that budget constraints are
increasing. the anced - for. cest-
efficiency in larger centres as
well, we seek to fill that need.”

SOPHISTICATED
AUDIO-VISUAL

Once the decision was made
to separate inter-com systems
from the entertainment and
therapeutic audio arrangements,
designer Gail McCance worked
with Community TV and Stereo
of North Burnaby and with
Western Sound Lid.. also of
North Burnaby, in the planning.
supply and installation of a
superb sound and video system
for the entertainment of resi-
dents, and for the use of thera
pists in illustrating thereapy to
those who require it

“You can't tie the system in
with, for instance, the inter
com" explains McCance.,
“because the low voltage on an
intercom system sometimes will
fail to reactivate the musical
programming afterward .”

Both Community TV and
Stereo, who supphed the RCA
Victor players and other equip
ment, and Western Sound Lid
who furnished video cameras.

extensive lengths to sec that the
system will be high in fidelity
and reliability, yet low in tn.
initial and maintenance costs
The system allows for different
programming tin three different
recreational arcas

VETERAN MEATCUTTERS AID
CEDARVIEW LODGE SUPPLY

More than cighty ycars’ meat
cutling expenence ts the record
of the two butchers at Briscoc's
Fine Foods Lid on EF Hastings
in Vancouver Founder Russ

Briscoe ts one of the two vetcran
butchers who take cqual carc
with a neighbour's order for half
a dozen pork chops, or with o
truckload of meat supplies for

NOTED NORTH SHORE
ARTIST ADDS TO DECOR

One of the north shore’s out
standing artists had drawn on his
considerable and vaned talcats
lo asstat the socicty in adding to
the decorative and = auditory
simosphere at Cedarview
Lodge Gail McCance has tics
with the ate of the institution
that go back a long way Gals
father Jack McCance togethers
with F Vo Young. produced a
forcrunaer of the Theatre Under
the Stars for Vancouver s
Jubilee Celicbrations in 1936
and McC ance yuntor eecalls col
lecting cedar boughs for the
staging tn the arca where ( cdar
view Lodge now stands

Mach of the art gractng che

walls of the intermediate «arc
facthity iw McCance’s own work
oad he sclected the balance wath
an oxpert's cye Having painicd
necarty all has life be has works in

corporate and private cailcs

Hons throughout the continent

McC ance also assisted oan
selection of plantings 1s ulpture
and other wall decor

Says McCane “Twe always

beheved that visual surroundings
are so important to ones well
being
older

capccially as you grow
ven o few minutes tn o
Achyhtful comer can mean that
pain to the back docan t hurt so
much

Cedarview Lodge While
Briscoe's also carry a line of
frozen vegetables and dry goods
flor the convemence of cus
tomen “our principal business
as always. ts meat” says Pres
dent Ron Stephens

Briscoe's has twelve full (unc
employces stayS open scven
days a week. and has customers
throughout the lower matnland

FIBREBOARD

A multi laccted
company primanly evvted in
Batish Columbia's forest in
dustry, Weldwood of Canada
supphed the fibreboard and
formica for Cedarview Lodge
“In any health care facility 1 tn
doubly important to have strong.
casily-cleancd and long wearin
matcrnals in these critical arcas |
snys (cdarvicew Administrator
Cecil Scou “We are pleased to
have such proven reliable pro
ducts trom such a well known
BC) forest company ~

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