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Vina Restaurant hosts West Van
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WITH MOST attention in West Vancouver recently turned
to questions of taxation on homes valued at close to
$500,000, a group of West Vancouver volunteers has
quietly been going about the business of providing for
those who don’t even have a place to call home.

The Quest, a charitable
autreach society, is a soup kitch-
en-based program that prepares
and serves-hot, nutritious meals to
Vancouver's needy and hungry.

The goup started its first soup
kitchen in. January 1991 at St.
James Church in Vancouver, and
a year later opened a second facil-
ity in the Gordon Neighborhood
House in the West End.

“The Quest is a splendid exam-
ple of ordinary citizens who care,

volunteering their time and efforts’

to make sure the needy are looked
after,’ said Quest co-director
Jodi Bochon. .
Last week 47 West Vancouver
women gathered for a luncheon/
auction at Vina restaurant in West
Vancouver to help Quest raise
money.
Artist Gerhilda Stulken was on
hand to talk about her paintings
and help Quest with its mandate.
In 1992 Quest:
® served 75,000 hot meals;

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- 200,000 Ibs. (90,720 kg) of food in

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food. shipments .to ‘the Lower
Mainland soup kitchens and mis-
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News Reporter

children received
books and crayons.

As the organization - enters its
third year of operation, it is step-
ping up its attack on hunger.

Meal service at: Quest’s two
soup kitchens will increase from
three to six times per week.

“As the year progresses we
hope to be able to increase this to
nine times a week,” said Bochon.

This translates into between
150,000 to 200,000 meals-in this
year alone.

The group has also begun net-
working with other relief agencies
in the Lower Mainland, in hopes:
of sharing services and volunteer
bases to better serve the needy.

This month, Quest is launching |
a “Hot Line Job/Employment
Centre’’ in which 20,000
businesses in the Lower Maintand
will be advised that, to quote
Quest’s literature, ‘‘we have peo-
ple who wish to work."

A hotline telephone number will
be provided eight hours per day,
five days per week.

For more information about
Quest, call 522-1988.

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NEWS photo Mike Waketleld

HELEN STEVENSON (left), artist Gerhilda Stulken (middle) and Ingrid Fischer pose with one of
Stulken’s paintings that was auctioned off at the Quest fundraising luncheon at Vina Restaurant in

West Vancouver.

The Vancouver Port Corporation invites you to a Public Open House regarding a"
proposal to extend the berth at its Lynnterm Forest Products Terminal in North |
Vancouver. The 76 metre (250 feet) westward extension of the berth is required to
‘increase the terminal's vessel and cargo handling capacity.

The proposed berth extension will require the relocation of the public viewing
platform currently located at the southern tip of Harbour View Park. The Port is
proposing to reconfigure the south end of the park and build a new elevated viewing
area and lookout tower to provide better viewing and improved access.

At the Open House you will have an opportunity to meet and ask questions of the
Project Team, and offer your views on the proposals.

‘Wednesday, April 21st
7:30pm - 9:30pm.
Canadian international College
2420 Dollarton Highway
North Vancouver

Note: At 8:00pm, the Project Team will make .
a brief presentation and answer questions.

For further information please contact:
James Crandles, Port Planner
‘Vancouver Port Corporation

1900 - 200 Granville Street
Vancouver, BC V6C 2P9
(604) 666-5978

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