32 - Sunday, he hottest rumor buzzing around the Nosth Shore is that a certain wealthy and high-powered businessman recently hired a real estate agency under a cloak of deep secrecy to assemble a certain block of houses for him to purchase. Joy Metcalfe tells all ... There are apparently seven houses involved and they are in the heart of the top-dollar British Properties! Seems that this gen- tleman plans on building a com- plete family compound and money was no object whatever. He never even saw one of the seven places. In fact, one of the houses in the middle of the block, worth $1.6 million, had just undergone a $500,000 renovation program. When he learned of this fact, the generous anonymous buyer then told the house owners to take whatever they wanted out of the place, to strip it clean, as it would be bulldozed anyway! Stay tun- wee Even in the midst of that dread- ful weather and heavy snowfall last week, when the electricity was off for almost seven hours and when there was no light, no heat, and no buses running in the Pro- perties, something very nice hap- pened to a happy yourig couple. Because of the terrible weather conditions, Francesco Aquilini had an overflow of hotel guests at his newly-opened Coast Atrium Hotel on Hastings near the PNE. Airline passengers who were grounded by the storm were buss- ed out from the airport to any and all available hotels and he and his staff were rushed off their feet. That’s exactly the time that his very pregnant wife, Dusty Martell of BCTV fame, decided that she’d better make for the nearest mater- nity ward. Aware that alf this activity was taking place at the hotel, she knew that Francesco couidn’t get home, so with the help of her mother, who'd flown in from Toronto just before the airport closed down, they managed to put chains on the February 18, 1990 - North Shore News COCKTAILS ga CAVIAR car, forgot about any dea of trying for Grace Hospital and headed Straight to Lions Gate Hospital through the treacherous blizzard. Just about the time that the lights came on, Dusty gave birth to a lit- tle seven tb., six oz. Alana Francesca Aquilini. According to the proud new mother, “Alana has the Aquilini bones and the Martell eyes.”’ Congratulations, floor-walkingt... and happy een Congratulations, too, to North Shore restaurateur, Buz Fuller. Last week he and his hard-working Earl’s Restaurant's crew col- laborated with U.S. Consul Gen. Sam Fromowitz in hosting a magnificent evening of wining and dining, a true Winemaker’s Dinner at Earl’s Cafe Fish on Broadway. The VIP guest was the person- able John Parducci, owner and operator of the Parducci Winery of California, and only the fourth recipient of the World of Wine’s DUSTY Martell ...get me to the hospital on time. Lifetime Achievement Award for Winemaking. We were fortunate enough to sample several wines including six special vintage selections from his private cellar. It was a very memo- rable event! But the big news from Chairman Buz Fuller and his Ear!’s Tin Palace empire is that, on Wednesday, they'll be making their first entry into the United States of America. They'll open restaurant number 32 on Wednesday, Feb. 21 in the heart of downtown San Francisco. The West Vancouver-based din- ing chain now has 15 locations in B.C., 14 in Alberta, two in Saskat- chewan and one in Manitoba. Their feading designer, the in- credibly gifted David Vance, wili be on hand at the gala San Fran. opening, along with Stewart Fuller A CINDY Goodman (left) and Karin Fischer ...will help direct new Vancouver Society of the Photographic Arts. and the general manager of the new restaurant, Brian Froese. The rest of the news is that this is a joint effort between the Fuller folk and Edmonton's Allard fami- ly... eee Very happy Sunday to four very important gentlemen, West Van‘s Ray Peters, former president and CEO of Western International Communications; W.V.'s B.C. Hydro Chairman, Larry Bell, who is also campaign chairman for the United Way; Vancouver Police Const. Kash Heed; and Firefighter Capt. Rick Loughran, who is a North Van resident. These four men were selected as recipients of the Jaycees 10th An- nual Awards of Excellence. They were honored last night at a gala dinner dance at the Coast Plaza where the newsmen’s newsman, BCTV anchor man and news director, Tony Parsons, emceed... Ray was also feeling very happy about the fact that his son and the Variety Club’s Chief Barker, Rick Peters, returned home last week from a New York Hospital where he'd been treated after collapsing in the Waldorf Astoria in the Big Apple. He was admitted into VGH for a couple of days and has now been discharged. He’s back in his own PLEASE HELP US... to provide milk, bread, fruits ; and vegetables, etc. «FEED THE HUNGRY IN OUR COMMUNITY © $20 helps us buy a weekly bag of groceries for one family » $60 helps sustain a family for one month © $720 assists that same family for a year Please help those in need. All donations are tax deductible. 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