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I) - Wednesday, February 10,

Funds sought for sex abuse counsellor

NORTH SHORE Family
Services asked West Van-
couver District Council
Monday for a grant in-
creasc, in part 10 cover the
cost of a sexual abuse
counsellor.

By MAUREEN CURTIS
Contributing Writer

“Tragically we are blighted with
this problem," said the society's
executive director, Arlene
Gladstone, ‘It’s not new: people
are just getting smart about repor-
ting it,”

“People have been coming for-
ward, many of them as adults,’
she said. ‘We have been involved
quite closely in working with the
victims."

Gladstone described the society's
services as ‘‘discrect and profes-
sional.""

West Vancouver is being asked
to fund 20 per cent of the cost of
funding a full-time counsellor to
deal with the problem of sexual
abuse. This, together with infla-
tion, accounts for an increase from
$32,000 to $39,000, which is mat-
ched by federal funding for a total
of $78,000,

“Unfortunately it's about half
of our total budget for municipal
grants to non-profit community
organizations,"’ Ald. Pat Boname
said later.

“They provide so many services.
1 hope we can maintain their fun-
ding without crowding other
organizations,’* Boname added.

Much of the organization's work
is related to children. Two
counsellors work through the three
district, high schools, where
runaway kids, depression, alcohol
and drug abuse are some of the
major probiems they deal with.

And according to Ken Hanna of
the Family Services board of direc-

‘300 VOLUNTEERS TO RETRIEVE DUCKS

‘Rotary Club gears up for race

WADDLE YOU do with 25,000
“yellow plastic ducks? Get them to
‘/Tace down Capilano River in aid of
the . North. Vancouver. Rotary
Club’s latest fund-raising efforts.
And some people have thought
the idea to be so quacked up that
they have been calling to complain,
said. Rotary Club. member ‘and
co-organizer Andy Turner.
Launched. from just below the
Upper. Levels Highway, the ducks
‘each sponsored for $5 — will
race to ‘tide: water,. where winning
ducks will .net- their sponsors one
of a host of prizes{“including anew
car from. Dick Acwin. Chevrolet, a
trip for two to Expo 88 in
Australia from Anza Travel and a
bevy of other items.
“These: people (who have com-
plained) are the ducks i that we are

the beaches all summer long; they
i think we're going to let them go.”
2, Nov.to duck . the. environmental
ssue, ‘the Rotary Club has arrang-
ed for a flock of 300 volunteers to
‘ound up stray ducks, An oil boom
across the river. mouth at tide
water will prevent any of the

.Vancouver

devilish duckies from going out to
sea,

So far 16,000 ducks have been
sponsored, and the Rotary Club is
expecting to have sponsors for its
remaining ducks before the Feb. 14
race day begins.

Families interested in rooting for
their ducks are advised that the
best place to take in the race is
from the west side of the Capilano
River.

With easy access from the
launch site to the finish line, the
(West Vancouver side- will offer
spectators the best vantage point to
take i in the action...

’ Parking and access on the North
side are severely
limited, he said.

Dumped into the water at I

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p.m., ducks ~ specially designed
to stay upright — should take
anywhere from 22 minutes to three
hours to complete the course.

The money raised from the race
will go to help get a medical alert
system for local senior citizens.
With the entire North Shore get-
ting behind the race, the event is
sure to be an unqualified success in
all aspects, noted Turner.

And as an example of the cor-
porate interest the race is drawing,
Turner pointed to Canadian Oc-
cidental Petroleum, which matched
its employees’ ducks. -

Entry forms are’ available at the
cosmetic counters of Lower
Mainland Shoppers Drug Mart
locations. For further duck race
details, call 985-2103.

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MUSCLE CONNECTION

2625 W. 4th AVE,
KITSILANO
736-0341

tors, while West Vancouver is a
park-land community, and ‘one
of the finest places to live,”’
biems
single
alcohol abuse also exist.

Family Services,

986-4366

and 102 volunteers,
pro-
concerning wife beating,
parenting and drug and

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This was in addition to

with 21 full-  iion's drop-in centres.

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