BRIGHT LIGHTS MORE THAN 3,200 athletes hailing from 66 nations will compete in the XV Commonwealth Games. The financial assistance and encouragement they receive from supporters such as the North Vancouver Chamber of Commerce gets them there. Athletes with disabilites will participate for the first time. BRIAN FREESTONE of Enterprise West Promotions joins the NEWS’ Shelley Williams and Peter Kvarnsirom (photo teft) while ICBC’S Bill Heese (photo right) and wife Linda took in the soiree at the ICBC table. PAST PRESIDENT of North Vancouver Chamber of Commerce Graham Reid and wife Lorna Reid (photo left) attended the afiair as did (photo right) Kirby Cammunications’ Jacqueline Kirby and Compu Cable Communications’ Jim Jackson. THE NORTH Vancouver Chamber of Commerce spon- sored last Friday's Celebration '94 — Sweetheart Ball at the Internationa) Plaza. The event, dubbed “Adopt an Athlete,” raised money for participants to go to Victoria's Commonwealth Games in August. Pictured here are (L-R) treasurer Bill Heese, manager Judy Ainsworth, past presidents Graham Reid and Naomi Yamamoto, president elect Sadru Mitha, [CBC PR person Darlene Hyde and president John Lakes. AMONG THE supporters pitching in te help out the “Adopt an Athlete" benefit for the ‘94 Commonwealth Games were (L-R) Chamber of Commerce president elect Sadru Mitha, Gulshan Mitha, Walter Thoma and his wife Kirsten, all of them of Sussex Realty.