38 - Wednesday, April 7, 1993 - North Shore News ‘M NOT the parading type so | passed on the Interna- tional Women’s Day rally. t did, however, attend a lun- cheon held to observe the day. West Van‘s Gulistan Shariff, who's on the Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women (CACSW) and the YWCA board, orga- nized the event, for which 80 women gathered at the Bayshore. North Van’s Marsali Maciver, chairman of the Social Planning Advisory Committee, there with her mother Marjorie, tells me she’! be running for North Van City Council; and West Van‘s Denese Izzard looks terrific and is back in track-and-field training after recovering from foot surgery. {sat with Dr. Salvi Parpia, who's just returned to North Van after completing a fellowship at New York State University (she’s a professor of pharmacology). Salvi, there with her citizenship judge mother Kkatoon, says she desperately missed the North Shore and is happy to be home and working on another fellowship, awarded her by the Medical Research Council of Canada, through which she'll conduct a study on drugs and pregnancy. The focus of the luncheon was a speech by MP Mary Collins, wearing one of her three hats — minister responsible for the status “of women. Collins had much to say. She first talked about the recent ap- pointment of Ardyth Cooper as VP western region for CACSW, i me ft DENESE IZZARD back on track after surgery.. Louise Aird BRIGHT LIGHTS pointing out that Cooper is the first woman of aboriginal origin to receive such a position {it’s also CACSW‘s 20th anniversary). Collins went on to say that, since the first International Women’s Day was observed in New York in 1910, Canada has risen to take a position of leadership in women’s rights advocacy. Canada has put forward legisla- tion regarding violence against - women, even though many coun- tries refuse to discuss the matter, and Collins hopes that the UN adopts the resolution so that its member countries will be obligated to face the problem. She said that Canada’s goal is MP MARY Collins spoke at luncheon. the global elimination of violence and that we're telling the worid that we will not stand for it (I'm sure that a few thousand unwill- ingly pregnant women in Basnia-Herzegovina will be just thrilled to hear that). Collins went on to say that the new legislation regarding sexual predators andi stalkers is being drafted, noting that ‘we're creating balance and a new socie- ty but we have to help men, who are confused by fundamental societal changes.” You can say that again. There are no flies on this woman. When confronted by “Other Mother” rights advocate Yvonne Brown about the rights of non-Canadian nannies, Collins swiftly pointed oui that labor standards are established by the provincial governmeni; that the PCs did put forth a proposal which childcare groups vetoed; and that no one from the Filipino Women’s Association or the Childcare Workers’ Association bothered to attend the luncheon. Definitely not your typical bor- ing politician’s speech. Nice change. nx *& As wine lovers have noticed, Featherstone & Co., Le Meridien and the Vancouver Museum did not hold their wine auction this year (it will be held next spring). But the auction’s honorary host, Baroness Philippine de Rothschild, did come to Van- couver to tout her Mouton Cadet _ and its newly designed labels. A small group showed at Le Meridien for the presentation, dur- ing which the bubbly baroness explained, in her perfect, rapid-fire English, the design of the new labels. Of the six Mouton Cadet wines, two now carry gold labels. The other four are tan, red, green and blue. The latterbear curtains, reflec- ting Philippine’s former acting ca- reer, and the same four bear the family crest of five arrows through a crown, signifying the five Rothschild brothers who branched out through Britain and Europe (as - Philippine’s English great-grand- father, Nathaniel, married a French woman, Philippine has the THE BARONESS Philippine de Rothschild with Featherston & co. vice-president Werner Schonberger. privilege of claiming two arrows). The baroness didn’t redesign the labels just so they’d look pretty. For the first time, French wines are in a position of true interna- tional competition. Mouton Cadet, created by Philippine’s father, Baron Philippe, in the ’30s, is the best- selling Bordeaux in the world and they want to keep it that way. kak Next week is Hunger Awareness Week. The main event is the Third An- nual Taste of the Nation, which takes place next Thursday at the Hotel Vancouver. Forty of our finest restaurants, plus local wineries and breweries, will offer their fare, with the hoped-for $150,000 going to buy two refrigerated vans for Food Runners, which picks up food _ from hospitals, hotels and restau- rants and delivers it to the needy. (Last year, hearts were broken when Food Runners’ old beater broke down Christmas week.) The event is great fun — you should go. For tickets, call 684- 1234, You'll get a tax receipt for your. $85, and the $1,506 corporate tables will buy great PR ~ plus hot breakfasts for 6,000 kids. / You can earn between $50-$100 per month delivering the. North Shore News either Sundays, Wednesdays or Fridays. There are no collections so it leaves you plenty of time to do the things you want. NO COLLECTIONS v DELIVER AFTERNOONS WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY, AND UP TO 1:00 A.M. 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