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JOY TELLS ALL

YES, INDEED that was
Nancy Greene Raine stand-
ing in fine and paying for
her own hamburger at the
Whistler Lions Club volun-
teer’s stand in Whistler
Village last Saturday.

. She was one of hundreds of
people who bought burgers and hot
dogs to support the new Whistler
Health Care Centre’s capital cam-
paign. This past weekend’s event
that marked the start of construc-
tion of the Whistler Village Centre.
Whistler Village Centre is a $40
million development that includes
retail, recreation and condominium
elements. It’s being developed by
West Van’s Larco Investments.
Larco celebrated getting approval
of their development and building
permits by announcing a pledge of
$25,000 to the Health Care Centre.
It was the Larco company which
also undertook the costs for musi-
cians, food and soft drinks for the.
barbecue that was organized by the
Whistler Lions, Others at the party
included the Mayor of Whistler,
Ted Nebbliag, the President of the
Whistler Lions, David DeKraker,
Lorne Hildebrand and Debbie
O'Mara of Whistler Health Care
. and project manager Gary

’. Murray. Nancy, the former
Olympic ski champion, who can
proudly boast that she has now bro-
ker 100 on the golf course, is the
co-chair of the campaign along
with developer, West Van.’s Jolin
Evans...

Elegant clothier Troy Straith
_ and his wife, Giza of Straiths in the
lobby of the Hotel Vancouver are
just back from a whirl-wind tour of
the fashion capitals of the world
including Saltzburg, Diisseldorf,
Frankfurt, New York, Montreal,
Las Vegas and Beverly Hills. Tony
reports that next fall, we'll see
slimmer lines in pants for day wear
-and lots of chiffon for evening
wear. Skirts will be short, skinny
pants will be worn under % length
blazers, there’ll be lots of riding
jackets and colorful crushed vel-
veteens for evening events. Colors

to look for this fall are burgundy,
loden green, tweedy shades and
brown is back ina big way!

The fashion news doesn ‘t say
anything about tartans but certainly
The Plaids are here to stay for quite
a while. That's as in the musical
production, Forever Plaid, which
opened officially on May 19 at the
Starlight Theatre. The evening
before the official opening, zillion-
aire Peter Thomas hosted a fund-
raising affair at Forever Plaid asa
fundraiser for the Kids Help Line.
The four Plaids — Robert Miller,
Neil Nash, Kevin Scott Markle
and Eddie Glen are in fine form,
especially after they had their ears
lowered @ /a the 1950s hair styles
at Miracles on Denman...The gala
opening after-party was hosted at
the Pacific Palisades Hotel on
Robson by General Manager
Stephen Darling and the cham-
pagne flowed like water. The place
was packed with more than 400
happy first-nigkters who couldn't
stop congratulating the hit musi-
cal’s three daring entrepreneurs,
producers Jeffrey Latimer,
Lawrence Follows and West
Van.’s Tina VanderHayden. As
they say, the town’s “glad to be
plaid!”...

Business news of note is that
Pauline Buck is leaving her posi-
tion as Vice President of Miller and
Leonard Public Relations. The
Miller in that title is West Van’s
Dean of PR, Dean Miller while the
Leonard is John Leenard of North
Van who was very much behind
the very successful NABS gala
evening al the North Shore Film
Studios last Saturday night. Pauline
now plans to work as an indepen-
dent PR consultant from her new
home office in downtown
Vancouver...

Someone else who’s making a
major change in his life is jovial
Jef€ Snowball. Jeff and his charm-
ing wife, Mary Snowball, have
been the founders, managers and
sparkplugs, behind the Vancouver
Media Club for the past 12 years.
Personally, ! can’t believe that
these two high-level individuals
have had the club operating that
long. How time flies! Last Friday
evening there was a giant farewell
and thank you party for the
Snowball’s with all the original
and current members attending. It
was a wonderful tribute to these
two people who are going to be
leaving their home on the Capilano
River to retire to live a life of ease
and relaxation on Gabriola Island
at the end of the month. I want to
wish both Mary and Jeff Snowball
the very best! They’re really good
people ... Cheers!

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Photos Joy Metcalfe

CLOCKWISE FROM top right: At the National Advertising
Benevolent Society grand ball were CISL’s Red Robinson,
Justin Hanley of Marketing Magazine, and NABS’ Tom

Peacock, John Leonard and Tom Haibeck.

Media club founders and managers Geoff and Mary Snowball

are leaving the North Shore.

Forever Pizid producers Tina Vander Hayden, Jeffrey Latimer
and Lawrence Follows attended the party at the Pacific

Palisades Hotel.

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