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beautiful,
beautiful

SPREADING GOOD will at
the Hugs for Hope bali at
Le Meridien were (photo
left, left to right ) Stan
Smy!, Jim Sandlak and
Sandra and Pat Quinn. The
party raised money for
Canuck Place, a hospice
or children operated by
the Hugs Children’s
Hospice Society in part-
nership with the Canuck
Foundation and the Van-
couver Sun Chiidren’s
Fund Society. Also gracing
the ballroom were Michelle
Ross (photo bottom left,
feft) and West Van catering

Louise Aird

BRIGHT LIGHTS
BIGNIEW KUPCZYN-
SKI fans will be inter-
ested to know that his

new series is out.

His Keep Our Planet Green ex-
hibition, featuring lively new
paintings (which also can be had
on T-shirts and greeting cards),
opened May 28 at the Kupczynski
Gallery.

Among the guests at the party
were QC-about-town Rodney
Ward, II Barino owner Laura
Markin, designer Lois Milsom,
who was on her way to Rio for the
Earth Summit, and North Van
producer/director Walter
Daroshin, who has just finished a
piece on the Kupczynskis (Eva is a
respected tapestry artist) for the
CBC.

(Speaking of Eva, if you find an
emerald Karl Stittgen ring, please
call.)

wk

Mahon Park was the site of the
May 30 Variety Club Celebrity Dog
Walk-Athon.

About 100 people and 50 dogs
showed, and, aside from one
minor altercation between a New-
foundland Hound and a Bull
Mastiff, everyone had fun and tons
of great prizes were given out.

Pictured here with West Van's
Art Jones, who is chief barker/
president of the Variety Club of

B.C. (the Variety Club uses circus
parlance), and his most charming
“mom” Cathryn, is celebrity
guest Aristotle Evans, the famous
pooch who cannot currently be
called ‘Brew’ because Labatt is
hedging on contract renewal.

(This is strictly rumor, but a reli-
able source told me that Labatt
pulled its popular beer commer-
cials because Kokanee is now
more popular than Labatt’s Blue
and, since the company plans to
close the Creston brewery, it
wants the demand for Kokanee to
drop.)

Qh, yeah — what was the deal
with the officious guy from the
SPCA? He was walking around
with his ticket book and regula-
tions manual asking owners to
keep their dogs from piddling.
Hello in there? Dogs piddle. And
these dogs were raising funds for
charity. Give ‘em a break.

ak *

May 30 was also the date of one
of the nicest parties I’ve been to in
ages — the Hugs for Hope ball at
Le Meridien.

The purpose of the evening was
to raise money for Canuck Place, a
hospice for children operated by
the Hugs Children’s Hospice
Society in partnership with the
Canuck Foundation and the Van-
couver Sun Children’s Fund Socie-

ye
Naturally, there were Canucks

A DOG DAY afternoon was had at the doggie walk-a-thon fund-
raiser in Mahen Park. Cathryn Evans and pooch friend Aristotle estry artist Eva Kupezynski and fi! Barino owner Laura Markin.
(aka ‘‘Brew"') pose with West Vancouver's Art Jones.

there — Stan Smyl, Jim Sandlak,
Ryan Walter, Pat Quinn, Arthur
Griffiths Jr. — but most of the
guests were from the Spring Ball
list, which means they are from
the UBC class of '84. Handsome-
and-single developer Ward
McAllister (Ledingham-McAllister
is now the owner of the West Van
Odeon) told me that the ex-
classmates have been hosting
charity balls for about five years
with increasing success.

And they did a great job, thanks
to the organizer, Le Meridien
catering director and West Van

director Tina Vriak.

native. Tina Velak.

First of all, 130 people made for
more fun — no sea of bodies to
wade through — and everyone,
well, almost, was elegantly coiffed
and beautifully done up in tuxedos
and short fancy dresses.

The decor of the hotel's
ballroom is so elegant that decora-
tions aren't necessary and the food
was fabulous: carrot soup; veal,
salmon or chicken; and the hotel’s
famed chocoate bar, The cham-
pagne was seemingly unlimited,
the table favors were beautiful
(perfume and cosmetics — French,

DESIGNER LOIS Milsom was
Rio bound on the night of the
Kupezynski exhibition.

of course) and the band was ex-
cellent. Tres bien, Tina.

kk

Prior to going upstairs to the
ball, we gathered in the hotel’s
Gerard Lounge, where we had the
pleasure of speaking with Quan-
tum Leap’s Dean Stockwell, who
was in town filming A Memory of
Murder, a movie-of-the-week
which co-stars Shelley Long
(Stockwell plays a cop).

What does the Master Thespian
think of Vancouver? ‘A beautiful,
beautiful, beautiful city,’’ he said.
‘Course, he was staring at Heather
Belzberg as he spoke ... What a
charmer.

SPOTTED AT the Keep Our Planet Green exhibition were (left to right) Mr. QC Rodney Ward, tap-