10 - Wednesday, December 16, 1987 - North Shor. News

Christmas charities scram

TWO NORTH Shore Christmas charities hoping to make
the holidays a bit brighter for needy families are in dire need
of food donations to meet the demand.

“T tell you, the food has got to
start coming in,’ said a worried

Ruth Stout, head of the West
Vancouver Santa Claus Fund.
“We're packing (hampers) this

weekend, and I’m looking at some
empty tables here.’*

With a commitment to supply
hampers to more than 200 needy
West Vancouver families, the
WYVSCF only has enough food to
fill five — and there is not much
time for the donations to come in
before Christmas.

At the North Vancouver
Christmas Bureau, the number of
needy residents has increased,
while the food donations are only
trickling into the charity.

More people are seeking help
from the North Vancouver
Christmas Bureau this season, and

donations are not coming in to

mect the rising demand, said
bureau chairman Erica O'Dwyer.

But for this year's food drive to
be a success, the Christmas Bureau
and the Santa Claus Fund need the
public to donate food to make up
the hampers.

To help meet the need this
Christmas, the North Shore News
— together with 53 North Shore
businesses — is spearheading the
drive to collect food.

Spread throughout the three
North Shore municipalities, the
businesses are sporting News ban-
ners and posters heralding them as
a collection depot for the two
Christmas charities.

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Donations of non-pershable
food items or food gift certificates
can be dropped off at any of these
locations and will find their way
into one of the many Christmas
hampers being made up by the two
groups,

Each of the humpers is meant to

tide families over through the
Christmas holidays and may con-
tain a turkey or ham, soup, rice,
pasta, flour, sugar, coffee, cake
and assorted seasonal goadics.

But if the trickle of donations
does not soon turn into a flood of
generosity, the two charities may

Ble for donations

be forced to reduce hamper size.
For depot locations, see page 56
of today’s North Shore News.

For further information on the

Christmas food drive, call the
NVCB at 984-XMAS or the

WYSCF at 922-6522.

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