'N CASE anyone doubted that the Park Royal Hotel garden was a good place for a party, Mario Corsi and his bar manager, Marco Fanzone, decided to throw one for the public. Louise Aird BRIGHT LIGHTS ; Actually, it was also a Labatt par- ty; Sam Lenarduzzi had the place festooned with beer-related par- aphernalia. . Fanzone staged a barbecue and hired “Decked Out’ to perform. -. He also brought j in a West Van comedian — Punchlines owner Rich Elwood, who did several memorable jokes, including one about. Kim Campbell's resemblance to Harpo Marx and another.about how, with Mike Harcourt, we have two domes with nothing going on inside of them. « . 4 x * * Also there were Park Royal .: Hotel co-owners Crrie Holubitsky . and t his new ‘wife, Fuschia Horn-, y : ’ The two were wed at the hotel after'one long courtship — years ~ (my philosophy is, if you're not engaged in six months, dump him. | Life’s short). It was, | hear, a terrific wedding (catered by the hotel ana’ the Corsi . Trattoria. and Cafe Rema): ; The bride says, however, that she knows she had a great time only because she saw it on video. kek CFMI’S BILL Courage with colleague, North Van's Jody Vance, at the Heinekin Cup Easter Seals Regatta. Regatta set a record this year, raising $150,000 for the taster Seals Society. The event was hosted by the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club and saw 124 corporately sponsored © yachts tace around the harber. | didn’t get to sail. | ended up on The Spirit of Vancouver with 100 other spectators (although the SOVis a lovely yacht with a very nice crew). It wasn’t exactly festive — the day was cold and someone forgot coffee. Not that | don’t love Heineken, but at 10:30-a.m. it's not high on my list of beverage re- quests. But they did have sandwiches ~ _Uheard one shivering woman say “Thank heaven for the Bread Garden.” -And thank heaven for cellular phones — we called Don An- drews and had him pick us up in the CFMI Cruiser. Meanwhile, | listened to CEMI morning host Bill Courage and his colleague, North Van's Jody ° Vance, talk sports. - These two must know everything there is to know about every game played. Turns out that Jody’s No. 1 am- bition is to be the first woman Canucks color commentator. She's practised all her life — her dad, Deep Cove’s Bill Vance, was REPLACEMENT NATIONAL BRAND CONTACT LENSES * CLEAR * TINTED * UV PROTECTION *mos! daily wear 65°" *mast {lax wear UP 16 * Order with Confidence. We guarantee you'll get the exact same lenses your doctor prescribed and we guarantee 95°" all lenses are factory fresh. * Eliminate Insurance Britannia’s PE department head. Courage isn’t short-on sports ex- perience either. He's aces at foot- all and baseball, and he’s always wanted to do play-by-play. So the two have put Canucks play-by-player Jim Robson and West Van color commentator Tom Larscheid on notice — when the latter get around to retiring, it is hoped that their jobs will be filled by The Bill & Jody Show. Hear that, Arthur? kkk You have until Oct. 3 to see De- signer Home ‘93, presented by the Junior League and the Interior De- signers’ Institute. The 84-year-old house, which is “modest by Shaughnessy stand- ards," is on Laurier at Granville. You can’t miss it — someone painted it “mango.” It belongs to lawyer Ron Argue SAM LENARDUZZI (left) with Park Royal Hotel's Mario Corsi at’ Q the Hotei’s gardon party. and his fundraiser wife Cathy Howden, who were planning on renovating anyway. ; They may now keep everything in the house — if they pay for it. Since nothing is anywhere near bargain basement, it’! be inter- esting to see what remains. Certain things will have to go — the bed in their 10-year-old’s room is precisely as Jong as a 10-year- eld;.and | can‘t imagine anyone planting their six-year-old in a “vegetable garden bed” every night. On the other hand, Jordan’s won't have much use for the hand-painted wallpaper in the dining room (they made the most exquisite drapes) and Cathy has grown fond of the TV room chairs — but they’re $3,600-2ach... The Junior League’s Sue Lewis and the 1MI’s Ellen Collison and Jane McCutcheon enlisted 19 design firms, and there are inter- esting innovations — a chicken- wired playroom for hockey; dismantling the fireplace and using. the bricks fora new patio; and my favorite, waxed walls — they‘re feok'an’ but waxing makes them ook and feel like marble. & You'll have to see it for yoursel Admission is $10, it’s open daily from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., and pro- - ceeds go to the Junior League’s' * children’s literacy program and its ostecporosis prevention program, _ NOTICE TO MOTORISTS PORTEAU BLUFFS ROCK SCALING PROJECT. . SEA-TO-SKY HIGHWAY 99 The Ministry of Transportation and Highways advises that there will be 20 minute’ delays and two and a half hour closures on the Sea-fo-Sky Highway 99 at Porteau Bluffs, 25 km north of Horseshoe Bay, until Friday, October 8: 1993, The delays: ° ‘and closures are needed for rock scaling work and will be in effect as foitows: . 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