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North Shore exec wins prestigious

VERY SPIFFY awards party last week af the Four Seasons
as the sales and marketing executives of Vancouver
honored the 1993 Marketing Executive of the Year, Cen-
tury 21 and Uniglobe Travel's Gary Charlwood.

The leading North Shore
businessman is the co-founder,
chairman and chief executive of-
ficer of Century 21 Real Estate
Canada Ltd. and founder chitir-
ian and CEO of Uniglobe Trav-
el, two of the leading franchise
operations in the world.

The first Century 2! franchise
office opened in B.C. in 1976,

The business now spans the
country and has gross annual sales
of $8 billion.

Gary Charlwood’s other ven-
ture, Uniglobe Travel, is the larg-
est travel franchise company in
the world, with $1.9 billion in
sales during 1992.

Previous winners of this
prestigious award are Jim Pat-
tison, Ron Marcoux, Patrick
Reid, Mick Muttagh and Peter
Legge.

Ray Townsend of the Townsend
O’Leary Advertising Agency in
California flew in to emcee this
§ special award ceremony for his
# good friend.

Also applauding were SME
president Jim Bail and pals Ralph
Kison, Cris Garvey, Kiaus Priebe,
Brian Scharf and Tor Bengtson.

Besides his heavy business load,
Gary is also the consul for Gam-

2 bia and is very involved with
# Easter seals promotions.

He also loves things Latin, so

they had Kathy Kidd’s trio playing
4 Latin music and dined on Chicken
Salsa...

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. Meanwhile over at the Canadian
Craft Museum there was a packed
crowd of 450 guests sipping and
supping on delectable treats from
the Hotel Vancouver's catering
department under boss Daniel
‘ Lalonge.

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{t was a dazzling benefit even-
ing for the museum called Ice and
sponsored by De Beers to cele-
brate diamonds and the exquisite
craft of jewelry design,

There were frosty ice sculptures,
chilled Absolut vodkatinis and
sparkling champagne.

Chairman of the museum board
Jane Butler looked fabulous in
slim pink and a zillion-dollar
diamond bracelet.

De Beers’ Cathy Sproule was
cool in soft olive green and an el-
egant sparkling diamond brooch,
and Julie Molnar glittered from
head to toe while Joanne Hous-
sian shimmered in her Swedish
Jeweler creations.

Award-winning Mary Ann Buis
of Catbalue Goldsmiths, Andrew
Costen of Bustopher’s
Goldsmiths, Jane Parker of
Brinkhaus Jewellers, Karl Stiggen,

ATTENDING THE

Carl Torode, Terry and Cindy
Bubb, Joha and Susan Evans and
Davina and Paul Zatesky were
also on hand.

The good news is that this icy
affair raised $45,000.

Finance Minister Glen Clark,
Senator Pat Carney, the Zajac
Foundation's Garry Wong and the
Neurological Foundation’s Dou
Selman were the special guests
who cut the ribbons to officially
open the Neurological Centre of
B.C, last week.

A very proud Mel Zajac was
there, as were Clark Bentall,
Lestic Peterson, lrene and Corrine
Zajac, Century Plaza Hotel's
Sergio Cocchia and his wife Wen-
dy Lisogar Cocchia, Patrick
Oswald, Frank Guistra, Frank
Gigliotti, Greg Douglas and Dee
Webster, Percy Lapinsky, the cen-
tre’s PR Barbara Willett and their
most accomplished emcee,
CKNW’s Hal Davis.

Cheers star Kirstie Altey did in-
deed host her own private Cheers
party last Thursday night in the
Gerard Bar at Louis Daniel’s Le
Meridien.

She and her husband, Parker
Stevenson, who is so sweet, had
invited all the other stars and
directors in town to drop by and
celebrate. And they did!

Kirstie wore the same long
black-and-white, off-the-
shoulder gown that she was wear-
ing in the final episode of the
long-running TV series.

The bash went on until the wee
small hours.

The spot that she did on Jay
Leno's Tonight Show that night

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ribbon-cutting ceremony at the new

Neurological Centre of B.C. last week were Frank Gigliotti (left)

and Mei Zajac.

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Photo Tor Bengtson Photography

RAY TOWNSEND (left) of Laguna, California flew in to emcee the
award ceremony for Gary Charlwood, the marketing executive of
the year.

had been taped at Le Meridien the
day before and Kirstie was backed
by our local and talented Sam,
Carla, Woody, Norm, Lilith, Cliff
and Fraser look-alikes...

And finally, do not miss Live- -
Ent’s Joseph and the Amazing
Technicolor Dreamcoat, which
opened in spectacular fashion
Thursday at the QET with Donny
Osmond starring.

Donny, Johnny Seaton as the
pharoah and Janet Metz as the
narrator are simply perfect and
the show is a dynamic dazzling
delight!

{t's fabulous popular enter-
tainment packed with colorful
spectacle — a $4 million, two-
hour-plus production of solid lav-
ish entertainment ... Cheers!

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