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Page 7 West Vancouver Historical Society May 2005 Late Breaking Good News from West Van Rotary The four North Shore Rotary Clubs were looking for a project to mark Rotary’s centennial (1905 -2005). The first project, a band shell for one of the West Vancouver parks, was smothered in red tape by the Council. We were at a bit of a loss. Last year, at about this time, I was returning from Vancouver and instead of being greeted by something welcoming, I came upon a field overgrown with weeds, unkempt bushesâ€"in short, visual disaster. My immediate reaction, when I got home, was to telephone the West Vancouver Park Board. “Not our problem. Sir. Try Highways.” Highways said they had not maintained it for a couple of years, and they were trying to get it and other green areas adopted by organizations in the province. I volunteered the West Vancouver Rotary Club. They sent me the papers and Club President Kevin Conway thought it was a great idea, filled them out, sent them in, and we were successful in our bid. It is a fairly big area; we had no practical way of cutting it so I went to the outfit that had cut it for the Ministry of Highways. They must have thought we spent money like the government. Their quote was $5,000 for the first cut and $700 per cut thereafter. President Kevin then found somebody who would cut it for $400, but on his schedule, not ours. We used him while we explored other options. (It would cost us a minimum of $4,000 per year this way.) In the meantime, Kevin got the other three clubs involved and we had more bodies and funds to help accomplish the necessary work. Clearly, we could not pay $4,000-1- per year to cut the grass. The clubs would soon tire of that kind of financial drain. An alternative was needed. I wrote to the manager of Home Depot at Park Royal explaining our problems and requested a donation of a John Deere riding lawnmower. (It had not opened yet but I found her, Shawn Henderson, at the regional offices in Coquitlam.) In a few days we got a positive response and by June had our lawnmower. Mainroad Contracting, under the Lions Gate Bridge, stores it for us. We have had several work parties on site, managed to get rid of most of the weeds, trim the bushes, prune the trees and plant some flowers. The area looks much different than it did a year ago and is well on its way to being the attractive and welcoming entrance to the North Shore. Additional information can be obtained from any of the North Shore Rotary Clubs. (from Page 1) Other longtime residents included June Enright, Pam Fearn, Mercia McPherson, Gordon and Beryl Millward, Gillian and David Roberts, Hank Strubin, Jimmy Tait, Bill Thorne and Barbara Wade. Still keeping conscientious watch over the place are Mercia McPherson and Gillian and David Roberts, June Enright and the Wenstobs. Thanks and congratulations ai*e due Rick Fearn, who oversaw every detail of the reunion. He displayed genius in the help he chose, among whom were Mike Mclvor, Mark Meredith, Cathy Legate, Sue Enright and Micky Strubin. Rick now hopes to put up a website to enable “Ancients” to stay connected. I am a handicapped newsletter writer and editor. My chief disability is lack of organization. When I desperately need an item I finally find it under an article I frantically sought several weeks earlier. And I lose things. One of the best items ever sent in was written by a member in Kelowna. T ve looked high and low for it. The surprising thing is that I have a file with her name on it: interesting items for future newsletters. I put the newsletter together using desktop publishing software called “PageMaker”. I don’t really know how to use it. If I “paste in” an article greater than 1100 words, the left-over words “migrate” to several other pages when it would easily fit into one page. There is a User Guide, but it’s 538 pages long and contains words that are half the size of these. Rational solutions elude me here. Until I can bring in computer nerd help the square peg/round hole method will have to suffice. TT (from Page 3) In front of the church is, of course, the village green, and leading from the green to the church is an object so rare that only an historian like Mr. Caulfeild would recognize it. It is a lych-gate, a roofed open structure with benches in it. In medieval times, it was intended, during funerals, for pallbearers to rest and put down the bier on their way to burial in the churchyard. I hasten to add that people are not in fact being buried in the churchyard. Although Mr. Caulfeild gave so much of his life to this project, he retired to England in his old age and died in London in 1934 at the age of 90. His son, Wade Caulfeild, had a distinguished career in the Royal Navy, retiring as Vice-Admiral. History doesn’t relate how much of his maritime skill and enthusiasm he learned from his childhood days around the cove, but in his retirement he and his son Toby raised a memorial to Mr. Caulfeild. This takes the form of a large black anchor with an explanatory plaque, and it is situated among the rocks and trees of the waterfront park that was Mr. Caulfeild’s pride and joy.