MUM OF THE YEAR

Mother's
Day
Manners
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She was a mother to many

IT STANDS to reason that a Mother of the Year

would like kids.

By DAWN BURKE

It’s probably safe to
assume that a Mother of the
Year would have spent a lot
of time with kids. And
Mother's of the Year are the
kind of people who do good
deeds in their spare time.

Tina Cole fits the bill.

Tina, a life-long North

TINA COLE gets a congratulatory hug from her grandson, E.J. Cole, on being voted Mother of the Year by the Eagles

Vancouver resident, has
been named this year’s
Mother of the year by the
Fraternal Order of Eagles.
The 72-year-old  great-
grandmother was honored
Saturday at a dinner at the
Eagles Hall for her many
years of community service.
In fact Tina has done so
many things for the com-
munity, she has a hard time

temembering them all.

In 1941 she started work-
ing for Indian Affairs, and
that was the same year she
started taking in foster
children. During the next
seven years she had 37 foster
children pass through her
home: some for just a few
hours, days or weeks and a
few for up to a year. ‘‘They
needed someone to look
after them,’ is all Tina says
about opening her heart and

home to those children.

While working for Indian
Affairs, Tina acted as an
escort. For 13 years she
escorted Indian children
from various far-flung parts
of the province home from
the hospital in Vancouver.
Tina has fond memories of
those days and the children
she returned to parents who
could ill afford to pick them
up from the hospital.

The children were

NEWS ¢ photo Mike Wakatleld

Club. Tina’ Is 72 and has four children, 19 grandchildren, four great grandchildren: and 39 foster children.

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delivered to their homes by
bus, train, plane, canoe and
horse and buggy, Tina says.
‘“We went through the dark
in a horse and buggy,” Tina
recalls. ‘‘We couldn't see
one thing or the other. The
horse led us I think.”’

After her job with Indian
Affairs ended, Tina worked
for the post office for 22
years as a mail sorter.
Through the years she has
been involved with sea
cadets and air cadets and
she’s made a career of fin-
ding needed items at ruim-
mage sales and delivering
them to AA, Indian Affairs
and the Ta-Ha Lodge, a rest
home for native indians.
While her children were in
school she was an active
member of the PTA and was
on cali to assist the Health

Nurse. She collected clothes
to help out less fortunate
people on the bread line and
in 1975 she and some friends
helped with the establish-
ment of a home to rehabili-
tate men. She remains in-
volved with potlatches
around the province.

Tina has three children
stiil, living and is grand-
mother to 19, great-grand-
mother to four and has three
more great-grandchildren on
the way. And more impor-
tantly, she is a good friend
to all who need her.

Tina’s now officially
retired but keeps busy doing
anything and everything. She
doesn’t think what she has

done is so special. ‘“‘It’s
nothing out of the ordi-
nary,’’ she says. And she

believes it.

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clinic changes

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scheduled for Thursday,
May 16 due to the Victoria
Day Holiday. Monday, May
20

The May 16 blood donor
clinic will be held at

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Capilano Mall, from 3 p.m.
to 8 p.m.. The May 21 blood
donor clinic is the regular
Lions Gate Hospital clinic,
from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. The
clinic scheduled for May 20
at L.G.H. is cancelled.

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