DOCTORS AND murses from Lions Gate Hospital swapped lab coats and stethoscopes for spring
. fashions and accessories at Designs on Doctors and Nurses, a fashion fundraiser heid recenity at

the Lonsdale Quay Market. Making their modelling debut (from ‘eft to right) are: doctors Peter
Africa Gicha! Culsure oad Gauche Deaigne: ne urse Sheona Cartwright in fashions from Out of
Africa Global Culture snd Gauche Designs.

Merchants had designs on LGH st

OVER 400 fashion enthusiasts
fellowed doctors’ orders and at-
teaded a fundraiser for the Lions
Gate Hospital (LGH) Wedresday,
Apri 7 7 at the Lonsdale Quay

Fashion: Reporter .

Designs'on Doctors and Nurses

was billed as an evening of fcod,

‘fashions and five entertainment

guaranteed .to fill the prescription
for fun.

_- The event, co-spoasored by the“
North Shore News and Lonsdale
‘Quay, and the brainchild of News

marketing services manager. Trixi
_Agrios, had ‘some of the North
'. Shore community’s finest medical
_ personnel leaving Isb coats. and
1 O.R. pastels at the office and
donning instead high-spirited |
- Spring fashions from the shops at
. Lomsdals Quay.

" Doctors Les” Sanz, . ‘chief of
staff, and Stew Miadill, vice-

president of medicine, in casual
pants and short-sleeved -shirts
from J.. Gregory Men’s Apparel,
scored a perfect 10 from the

_ Self-appointed front-row judges.

A natural onstage was the
dashing doctor Nick Marinatos, a

general vascular surgeon at LGH,
_ who. also received «high | marks

from the enthusiastic crowd.

And nurses Nan Martin and
Patti Hearn, in clothes from
Casanova and accessories. from
Zulaika and Melrose Place, could
have given any international
supermodel a run for her money.

Wearing fun fashions from
Please Mum were several children
of LGH doctors and nurses.

in announcing the door prize,
emcee. Kate. Ross of Faces
Cosmetics quipped that the winner
would receive ‘‘an overnight stay
and breakfast for two at Lions
Gate Hospital.”’

The lucky - recipient, Eleanor
Monill, wife of Dr. Stanley Mor-
rili, was relieved to discover she’d
won instead a night for two at the

- Lonsdale Quay Hotel with a

choice of breakfast in bed or at
the Q Cafe.

Before and after the show, par-
ticipants were free to browse
through the shops to the accom.
paniment of live calypso music.
The Lonsdale Quay Hotel provid-
ed hors d’oeuvre, desserts and
coffee.

Melanie Mahlman, director of
development for the LGH Foun-
dation, said she was ‘‘just thrilled

‘at the fabulous tumeout’”’ at the

fundraising event which need
approximately $6,000 for the hos-
pital.

Funds raised by the foundation
through events such as Designs on
Doctors and Nurses are put
towards the purchase of capital
equipment — ‘* ing from
hospital beds (at. $5,000 each) to .
sophisticated imaging equipment
(upwards of $250,000 for a CAT
scanner),’” Mahlman explained.

For more informatica on the
Lions Gate Hospital Foundation,
please phone 984-5785.

Spring is blooming

at Vancouver Centre

April 19th through 23ard.

Join us to celebrate

with great savings.

lunchtime entertainment

and over 4000 roses

to give away.

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Sunday, April 18, 1993 - North Shore News - 17

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