Bureau volunteer the rules of charity early

“eo. pureal. Fund scramble to fill need

IDA PADDOCK learned the unspoken rules of chari- ty early in the game.

By Elizabeth Collings News Reporter

She was six when she gave up some of her toys just before Christmas. It was during the Great Depression and the North Vancouver Christmas charity was run by “Fire Chief Murphy and the boys,"” as Paddock remembers them.

Gn Christmas morning, she was thrilled to see her good deed had been appreciated.

“There I spotted my teddy that I had given in the arms of a little girl next door,’’ Paddock recalls.

She was about to rush out the dvor to see the girl when her fa- ther pulled her back into the house with the curl of his cane.

The fesson learned then is one that Paddock still follows: con- fidentiality enables many people to accept help while maintaining their pride.

Now 64, Paddock has been a professional volunteer all her life. Married with four children and six grandchildren, Paddock has vol- unteered: with many organizations, including the Elizabeth Fry Socic- ty, the Soqualia Club and Lions Gate Hospital. :

She was chairman of the North Vancouver Christmas Bureau for four years and now sits on the North Shore Family Services Society board,

. Community involvement and

‘volunteerism runs in Paddock’s family. Paddock says her father, former alderman Roy Hunter, volunteered with more groups than the family could keep track of.

“When he died, we got letters from the Chinese community. We didn’t even know he was working for them. He was a very kind man, a philanthropist.”

The Christmas bureau is one of Paddock’s favorite organizations to work with.

“I love the Christmas bureau because...who’s going to argue with it?

“Christmas is a very emotional time and if anyone feels alone and blue, that’s the time. Really, you

learned

IDA PADDOCK, past chairman of tha North Vancouver Christmas Bureau, says that North Shore residents are a generous bunch. Last year, volunteers put in 1,291 hours of work for the

Christmas Bureau.

can’t do enough for these people as far as I'm concerned.”’

Last year, Christmas bureau volunteers logged 1,29! hours col- lecting donations, preparing food hampers and vouchers, setting up the Toy Shop and getting the hampers to the clients.

“It’s a heart-attack situation at the end. People don't give until three days before when they're shopping in the malls and hear the bells ringing."*

Paddock expects the bureau may be needed more than ever this year.

“f think the times are a little tougher,”’ she says.

Bureau clients include the work- ing poor, seniors, single moms and, increasingly, single fathers.

Paddock recalls a former bureau client who is now very successful. Each year, he writes up a gift list of what he'd like for Christmas, shops for it, and then donates it to the bureau.

“He says he has a heck of a good time! I thaught that was lovely,’’ says Paddock.

Before Dec. 17, non-perishable foed donations to the Christmas bureau and the West Vancouver Santa Claus Fund can be made at more than 20 North Shore loca- tions, sponsored by the North Shore News. Depot locations will be published reguiarly In the News.

In addition to food, new or nearly new toys and money can be donated at any North Shore Cred- it Union, the Lonsdale Quay, and the News offices, 1139 Lonsdale

NVSB has deficit of $5.5M

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teachers will receive a 14% salary hike over two years.

But many school boards have already. spent the money they sav- ed when Lien rejected the collec- tive agreements the boards had negotiated with their teachers.

Player said that now Bill 82 has been thrown out, the average metro teachers’ salary will rise and that in turn will cost the WVSB an additional $200,000 that Player said the school district does not have.

“The only place you can save money at this board is in the reduction of staff because staff salaries account for 86% of the school board’s budget,’’ Player said. ‘‘We’ll have to do that if there’s no relief coming in the new year.””

Jessup said that allowing the NVSB to run up a deficit of 2% will do little to help out the NVSB because the school district current-

ly has a deficit of $5.5 million against its current budget of $86,323,854.

“The 2% deficit will not meet our needs at all. In the first place, running a deficit is new,’’ said Jessup. ‘“‘According to the school act, you cannot run a deficit. And that money has to be paid back at some point.””

The NVSB wrote Hagen asking her to consider two options:

_ @ to give the NVSB an increase

in its block funding allocation; ® or grant it emergency funding.

But Jessup said Hagen rejected the two options.

While Jessup said the NVSB can pay North Vancouver teachers the 7% wage increase in the first year of the two-year contract, it does not have the money to pay the 7% in the second year.

Teachers’ salaries account for 67.2% of the NVSB’s budget.

To press time, the NVSB had scheduled an emergency Friday night meeting to discuss the issue.

Ave., North “ancouver. Toys ¢an also be lefi si zeny North Shore firehall.

For more infozmation, call the Christmas bureau at 984-XMAS (9627) or the Santa Claus Fund at 922-6522.

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