spa needy es si RR Pea Sah Dae ( NEWS photo Mike Wakefield “THREE-YEAR-OLD Carrie and her five-year-old sister, Erin, are among generous local residents donating food tc the North Vancouver Christmas Bureau ind the West Vancouver Santa Claus Fund this Christmas. : Food collected is packaged into hampers and distributed to needy families to see them through the holidays. V school changes prompt little reaction WEST VANCOUVER School Board has received almost no reaction to its plan to turn Hillside Secondary School into a mid- dle school, the superintendent said Wednes- day. Bill May said he suspects it is because December is a busy time of the year for people, so they probably have not considered the planned changes. “They're into Christmas concerts now.” At its Dec. 7 meeting the board vote! in favor of changing Hillside Secondary School into a middle school of grades seven, eight and nine by September 1988, and making West Vancouver Secondary Schoo! into a senior secondary school of grades 10, 11 and 12 by September 1989. { Sentinel Secondary Schoo} will remain a grade seven (0 12 school. It was incorrectly reported in the Dec. 9 issue of the News that Sentinel would also become a gtades 10 to 12 school by September 1989, May said the district will have a busy schedule planning the changes this spring. Spring 1988 teach- er-board negotiations regarding Bill 20 contract changes could make it an even busier time, he said. Hillside grades 10 and 11 students have taken the announcement to change th2 school fairly hard, prin- cipal John Williams said, explaining the grade 1] students had hoped to complete their graduating year at Hillside rather than in a different school. “Students establish a loyalty for a Williams said. The staff are waiting for the establishment of two committees to oversee the process of change invalved, he said, and are waiting to see who will be transferred where. The board voted to establish iwo comniittees to oversee the change process, one to examine staffing and one to examine broader educational issues. Williams said he himself changes his opinion every day as to whether he would prefer to work in a junior _ high schoo! or a senior secondary school. school,”” 3 - Sunday, December 20, 1987 — North Shore News CHARITIES SCRAMBLE TO FEED WN. SHORE FAMILIES FOOD DONATIONS are picking up at two North Shore Christmas charities, but the supply still is not meeting the demand for food hampers, officials say. “We still need food,"’ North Vancouver Christmas Bureau chairman Erica O'Dwyer said Fri- day. ‘Some things are coming in, but from what I saw on the shelves there isn’t too much food.” Last year at this time food donations were gushing into the NVCB and the West Vancouver Santa Claus Fund. Not so this year, and both organizations are scrambling to meet the increasing need. “It’s slower in all ways (than last year),’’ said WVSCF chairman Ruth Stout. ‘‘It’s picking up now, but there are certain items that are scarce, such as.meat and fish.” Despite being the richest municipality in Canada, West Vancouver has its fair share of needy, said Stout. Typical hamper recipients may include single parents, families with one or both parents unemployed and seniors. “You name it, we've got it,’’ she said of the municipality’s needy. {n North Vancouver, the story is much the samc, with hamper reci- Pate Santa Claus LAEGEE: WEST Vancouver Fund chairman Ruth Stout...“*We need everything we can get.” pients often single welfare mothers with two or three children, seniors and families with no bread-winner. One worker describes them as ‘‘the poorest of the poor.”’ To help these needy people, the North Shore News — together with 53 Jocal businesses — is spearheading the drive to collect food for the two charities. Sporting News posters and ban- Weather: Sunday, mastly sunny. Rain on Monday. Tuesday, cloudy with showers. Highs near 6°C. Reporter ners, the businesses are drop-off depots for donations of non- perishable food for the two local Christmas charities. Both O'Dwyer and Stout want donations of non-perishable food items — canned goods and dry NORTH Vancouver Christmas Bureau chairman Erica O'D- wyer...‘There isn’t much food.’ goods, for instance — to make the hampers as substantial as possible to see hundreds of needy peaple through the festive season. With 214 hamper applications, Stout has enough food for about 150 hampers, up from the dismal situation last week when she only had food for five hampers. Still, she said, more food is needed to make up the 64 remaining hampers. The WVSCF begins packing hampers today for delivery during the week, but Stout still en- courages people to donate — the food can always be added to the ready-to-go hampers. : “We need everything we can get,” said Stout, who vowed that the charity would even buy food if needed to make up the hampers. For a complete list of Christmas food drive depot locations which include the North Shore News offices at 1139 Lonsdale Ave. — see page 44 in today’s News. 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