8 - Sunday, January 5, 1992 — North Shore News

MAILBOX

Stranger in a strange land

Dear Editor:

After 15 years of living abroad
I have returned to Canada in a
tather destitute condition. Deter-
mined to get back on my feet
again, I put an ad in the North
Shore News asking if someone
could donate any of their un-
wanted furniture to help me.

The first calier opened her con-
versation bluntly and sarcastically,
“Well, isn't that a smart way to
furnish your apartment? ’’ and
abruptly hung up.

The second caller asked nicely if
I was the gentleman who had just
arrived in Canada. When I an-
swered to the affirmative, she told
me, ‘Why don’t you drop
dead?,’’ and hung up.

The third caller also asked in a
nice voice if I was the geatleman
who had just arrived in Canada.
_ When I said that I was, she spit

Ba EF a LOPLI GS

sane
a as

North & West Yancouver
School Districts

RE-ENTRY DIPLOMA
PROGRAMS

RECEPTIONIST
TRAINING (DPTO)

Designed to equip you to cope
in the reception area of today’s
busy office.

January 20 - February 14
00 - 3:30
Fees: $599

OFFICE UPGRADING
(DP14)

4 Focus on polishing office skills
§ and introduction to com-_
puters/word processing

February 17 - March 13 ©
9:00 - 3:30
Fees: $599

COMPUTER;
WORD PROCESSING
| (DP12) :

Intensive hands-on computer

i training so you are prepared to
cope ‘with the IBM PC in he
workplace,

February 17 - March 13
9:00 - 4:30
Fees: $1015

“Information Sessions for All
. Programs:

Lucas Centre for Continuing
: Education
2132 Hamilton Avenue, North
Vancouver
Wed. January 8
9:30 - 11:00 am
Wed. January 8
7:00'- 8:30 pm
Thurs. January 9 -
1:30 - 3:00 p.m.

Information sessions
mandatory

For information -
Call Joan Fleischer
980-2713 _ 986-8888

out with venom, ‘‘Why don't you
go back to where you came
from?”*

Not that [ am thin-skinned and
hevt for myself, but I hurt for
Canada. Where are the Canadians
whe took pies, cakes and sand-
wiches to a new neighbor on their
hectic moving-in day?

I myself have bought new
clothing and shoes for poor
children; brought a foreign visitor
to my home for dinner and given
him clothing to send to his family
in their country; and have given to
many needy causes. Have I been
away so long?

While travelling in other poor
countries, I was treated royally to
the best the destitute populace had
to offer. If a dear old lady had
only two oranges in her larder,
and gave me one, what more
could one ask? if a poor, dirty,

barefoot, smiley-faced boy, in his
one and only pair of dirty shorts,
ran after me to give me a lobster
he had caught (knowing that ‘‘gr-
ingos’’ love lobster), he was giving
me all he had.

I spent a few dismal days
wondering if I had really done
something wrong in this ‘‘foreign
country.””

Suddenly the sun shone, and a
host of North Shore residents
opened their generous hearts and |
could have furnished my apart-
ment three times. As a matter of
fact, I, in return, gave some of
my gifts to a young Greek couple
who have just moved here.

1 wish to thank al! those very
nice folks that extended their
hands to help me up a few rungs
of a shaky ladder.

Bruce MacLean
North Vancouver

HEARING PROBLEMS?

WE CAN HELP
Neil Walton, MSc., Aud{C)
Registered Audiologist

Pacific
Hearing Clinic
Pac Audiology gi! ine

301-1200 Lonsdale Ave.
North Vancouver, BC.

985-2501

ARDAGH HUNTER TURNER

Barristers & Solicitors

IMPAIRED DRIVING

AFTER HOURS

0 iM 5 FREE INITIAL CONSULTATION
riminal Matters Only
926-3181 | 986-4366

908: 3288

#300-1401 LONSDALE, NORTH VANCOUVER, B.C.

‘DENTURE SERVICE

DIRECTLY TO THE PUBLIC |

* REPAIRS - IN 2 HOURS © SOFT LINERS
¢ RELINES - IN 1 DAY ¢ ALL DENTAL PLANS ACC.

* NEW DENTURES e REFERRALS NOT REQUIRED

Fully qualified & licensed by the province of B.C. Members
of the denturists society of B.C. and subject to the high

a having a January

standards and reasonable fees of the association.

‘PETER BARKER
DENTURIST
231 Lonsdale, N.Van.

VIRGINIA IA THORBURN

£208-1881 vere, W.Van.
922-3309

LE LEWIS
DENTURIST
#301-1124 Lonsdale, N.Van.

ELISKA KHASHAN-HORKA

#5-221 vv Selena, N.Van.
980-9268

DRAPERIES BY S. LAUKSEN

CUSTOM DRAPERIES
AND VALANCES

Labour $7.50 per panel
unlined, $8.50 lined

CUSTOM BEDSPRKEADS
AND COVERS

Low, iow prices on blinds
and tracks
For FKEE Estimates
Call 987-2966

Serving the North Shore for 20 years

Following the conclusion of our Close Out Saie, the
remaining stocks at Ali Baba Oriental Carpets Ltd. must
be liquidated at the fall of the gavei

GIANT ONE DAY ONLY
UNRESERVED
PUBLIC AUCTION

Hundreds of fine quality hand-knotted

PERSIAN CARPETS

Room size area rugs and runners of all sizes in wool and silk
and wool blend, ail must be liquidated. Confirmed origins from
iran, Pakistan, india, China, Turkey and Afghanistan.

If you visited Ali Baba Oriental Carpets Ltd. in White Rock,
BG. in the past and saw carpets you wished you could afford,
now is the time to take advantage of the .

EXTRA SAVINGS

available at this unreserved auction.
Auction will be held at

EAGLE HARBOUR COMMUNITY CENTRE ‘

5575 Marine Crive, West Vancouver
(Take Exit. #4 off Upper Levels Highway, go
down Westport an to Marine Drive .

SUNDAY, JAN UARY 5TH, 1992
At 2:00 pm sharp, viewing from 1: 00 p.m.

10% freight, brokerage and warehousing charges to be added “

Separate yourself
from the ordinary! |
~ but then so .

are a fot of
other stores

J. Collins is

furniture sale,

SAVE UP TO 50%

Now Two Big Locations
_ CANADA‘S LARGEST THOMASVILLE GALLERY

SY

THOMASVILLE GALLERY

_ 435-5566
4240 Man@r Street
Burnaby, 8.C.
(half a block west of
Sheraton Villa Hotel)

GB5-B414 --
1080 Mainland Street
Vancouver, B.C.
Main Floor
The Yale Town Galleria Bldg.

Monday to Saturday — 9 to 5 p.m. Sunday - Noon to 3 p.m. -