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SANTA CLAUS isn’t the only one with a toy shop;
the North Vancouver Christmas. Bureau has one
that is unique in the Lower Mainland.

By NEWS STAFF

The Toyshop is the second
part of the Bureau’s two-
pronged attack on the pro-
blems of the needy at
Christmas.

While part of the energies
of Bureau staff and
volunteers goes into the pro-
cess of collecting food and
money for food hampers and
grocery certificates and then
co-ordinating their distribu-
tion, others are at work put-
ting toys under the trees.

And the Toyshop, run out
of space donated by the
landiords of a North Van-
couver apartment, is unique
because it alone offers
parents a choice of what their
children will receive on the
morning of December 25.

It works like this: Parents
applying for help from the
Christmas Bureau are asked
if they would like to take ad-
vantage of the Toyshop ser-
vice. If they say yes, an ap-
pointment is made for them
to visit and to select presents
for their children.

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The presents — like the
food hampers and grocery
certificates — are provided
by donation. The Bureau
asks the community to
donate good, used toys,
games, sports equipment and
children’s books.

North Vancouver firé
departments, the North
Shore Credit Union and
Canada Trust provide collec-
tion depots, and fire fighters
in the area have a long
history of helping by doing
initial sorting and minor
repairs to toys if they have a
time.

The toys are then taken to
the Toyshop.

As well as the used toys —

donated by the community,
the Bureau’s Toyshop efforts
are aided by such local
businesses as Hoyle In-
dustries which, over the past
two Christmas seasons, has
taken the $1,200 it would

normally spend for a staff
Christmas party and turned it
into new toys for donations.
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Church has been the back-
bone of the Toyshop project

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for all these years,’’ says
Gerry Miller, president of the
Christmas Bureau. “They
have people who work on it
all year round.”’

One of those, says Miller,
is a woman who prefers to re-
main anonymous. A former
volunteer whose activities
have been cut down by ar-
thritis, the woman knits 300
pairs of mittens a year for
distribution. As well as knit-

service

ting a pair of mittens a day,
the woman sorts puzzles and
games throughout the year.
Donations of money,
specifically for the Toyshop
or for the Bureau’s food
donation program, will also
be gratefully received at:
North Vancouver Christmas
Bureau, Box 86081, North
Vancouver, V7L 4J5. For
further information,
telephone 985-8612.

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