Louise Aird BRIGHT LIGHTS ESP’ TE UNCERTAIN weather, several hundred stargazers and/or baseball fans turned up for the 2nd Annual Van- couver Youth At Risk (VYAR) Celebrity Softball Game at Vancouver’s Me- morial Park, and, thanks to the star players, volunteers and sponsors, a healthy sum was raised to help VYAR continue to reshape the lives of Greater Vancouver teens who are, shall we say, misbehaving. Team One featured, among others, Peter Deluise and Stan Kirsch from Highlander (Kirsch desperately misses New York and Deluise pointedly told me that he hates my hair — obviously money and manners do not go together). Northwood sent Darrell Den- nis, Byron Lucas and Lochiyn Munro, Odyssey sent Ton Sammsan and ‘tlya Woloshyn and extra support came from ex-B.C. Lions Ty Crews, Leroy Moss and Curtis Webster. Armong the Neon Rider-ites who played were Todd Baker-McGar- va, Rob Boulet, Sam Sarkar, William Taylor and executive producer Danny Virtue, at whose Mission ranch the series is filmed. This team, which also included several youths-no-longer-at-risk, was captained by West Van's Winston Rekert, a VYAR trustee who is the creator, star and co- producer of Neon Rider. Rekert had to have been flat- tered to find that the president of the Official Winston Rekert Fan Club, Debra Chapman, had flown all the way from her home in Michigan to attend the game (!!!). VYAR chairman Sally Morison, of North Van, was thrilled with the success of the game, which featured the most unorthodox baseball. When either team fell behind, professional urnpire Mike Hornak helped out by allowing runners to go from first to third, by blocking home plate for opposing runners, and by using his ‘’non-regulation glove rule’’ which negated a field- er’s catch because his glove was too big. And when one of the kids couldn’t get a hit, Hornak grabbed the bat and ball and hit a home run for him. ; Obviously, there were lots of laughs, augmented by U-TV’s Mark Driesschen who, | believe. lost track of the score — | think it was something like 28-28. zee West Van's Johni De Groot’s Yaletown bistro was the site of the launch of Back te the Wondertul, the debut CD ef Burnaby’s Crusoe (Colin Crusoe) who is expected, say music bizzeis, to go very far. Crusoe’s music is mainstream pop with a spiritual/natural theme -— not goofy, but there’s no men- tion of “word to your mother’’ either, thankfully. Kind of Elion fohnish ... (i'm so giad I'm nota music critic). . Anyway, while Crusoe’s video series. Lifeline (which was filmed in the Gueen Charloties and which stars West Van's Rae Dawn Chong) played over and over and over again, about 100 guests engaged in susne major schmoozing — good party. Cap College can take some credit for the success of Crusce and his band. 7255 player Marc Roger, known as a whiz-kid, is a geaduate, and songwriter/keyboardist/back-up singer Anne Leader, still of North Van, was studying piano, guitar and obce at Cap before she caught the sock ‘n’ roll bug and went off ta join Barney Bentall, with whom she toured with Bryan Adams. . Spoke to West Van’s Susan Salo, who's just returned from a two-year stint in L.A. (is she ever glad to be home), and to North Van's David Rodertson who's the former manager of Little Mountain Sound and who has a really big stary to tell about the nefarious goings-on surrounding his thwarted purchase of, and depar- ture from, the recording studio. Robertson, whose wife Diana is president of Robertson Pick Advertising, says he'll tell all once the mega-suit (which is being THIS YEAR'S Y nandled by no-fooling-around heavyweights Russell & DuMoulin) is finished. The way he talks, this story is right up the alley of 60 Minutes so stay tuned. kkk This year’s Coho Festival was fun, as usual. President William Soorovich and his committee did a great job of organizing the events, which included: Park Royal's “Salmon imagery in Art’ — an art show created by North Shore elementary school students; “Festival in the Malls,” also at Park Royal, where children col- lected funds to help with salmon enhancement projects; the Coho Run and Coho Walk; plus the breakfasts, barbecues and non- stop entertainment. Oddly, I didn’t spot too many familiar faces in the ever-popular beer garden. Ran into my ex- baseball teammate Julianne Haines, who works at West Van District Hall. She was there with her drop- dead gorgeous daughters, marine biologist Anita and student Tanya, both of whom should be model- ing. Then | watched MP Mary Photos Louise Aird SPOTTED AT this year's Coho Festival were marine biologist Anita Haines and her mother Julianne, who works at West Van- couver’s district hall. Collins working the barbecue but that got tired pretty quickly. So ! went home ... wk ... and ruminated on my newest tidbit of information. Now how shall | put this? Gentlemen. If you’re married and dumb enough to foo! around, tell your girlfriends NOT to discuss their love tives with their hair- dressers. For alt they know, a social columnist could be having her hair cut just four feet away. th At Risk celebrity baseball game at Memorial Park was a financial success as several hundred spectators turned up to watch the likes of Winston Reckert and Lochlyn Munro take part in this slightly unorihodex annual event, which rzises funds toe help turn the lives of Vancouver's wayward youths around.