HIS YEAR’S Halloween festivities were interesting.
There were too many parties and not enough

revellers to go around.

| made it to four parties and all
were sparsely populated because
everyone else was going to 10 par-
ties. But making the rounds in
costume is part of the fun ...

A good crowd showed for a B.C.
Breast Cancer Research Founda-
tion Halloween fundraiser at
Ichni‘s Cafe in Yaletown.

There were many North
Shoreites there and ali went toa
lot of trouble with their costumes.

North Van’s Sandy Drew icok-
ed like she was fresh from a per-
formance of Cats, West Van's
Susan Salo was very Lady
Godiva-ish, North Van's Ellen
Higgins won a prize for her Viking
costume and West Van's Johni de
Groct was tres chic as ‘‘Mrs.

Viad the Impaler.”

Johni, by the way, has decided
to focus her energies on her
clothing business and has gone in-
to partnership with North Yan's
Zee Satal, who will run “Johni’s

DENNY BOYD was given a hard
time by old pal Sen. Pat
Camey at the Webster Awards.

on the Edge” (of Yaletown) while
he’s also running his new restau-
rant ‘‘Zee’s on the Edge” (of the
water), which used to be Cafe
Splash.

Zee and his wife Mona used to
operate the concession and cater-
ing company at North Shore Stu-
dios — now she’s running the
catering company and is opening
“Carpaccio,”’ an Italian cafe in
Kitsilano:

Life in the restaurani business
can be very confusing ...

And while his fiancee, Dusty
Martell, emceed the party, | spoke
with West Van cop Shane Barber
about his latest sideline as, of all
things, a doll importer.

For those of you who are sick of
having your daughters presented
with someone else’s impossible
idea of ‘‘perfect womanhood,”
there is the “Happy To Be Me”
doll, a physically correct female
doll with normal clothes — kind of
like ‘‘Barbie Meets Reality."

Talk about initiative — Barber
spotted the doli on 48 Hours,
called the American owner, ac-
quired the Canadian distribution
licence and within a week of
receiving their allotment, he and
Martell, who each have one
daughter, have sold out.

The dolls go on sale today at
North Van’s Save-On Foods and
there are just 80 available, so if
you want one ...

kx *

The Sixth Annual Jack Webster
Foundation Awards dinner at the
Trade and Convention Centre was
great fun.

Louise Aird
BRIGHT LIGRTS

“Websters’’ are awarded for
outstanding work among B.C.
journalists and, since the tounda-
tion’s creation in 1986, subrnis-
sions have increased substantially
— as has the prestige attached to
the awards.

The evening began with a
private reception, at which guests
were greeted by foundation
chairman Kyle Mitchell, founda-
tion trustee and Molson’s VP for
public affairs Robin Milward (of
West Van) and an extraordinary
jovial Jack Webster, who !ooked
hale, hearty and thoroughly hap-
py.
Not toa much happened at the
reception. Women tripped over
themselves to get at CTV’s Keith
Morrison (he’s quite handsome),
and | watched the very aggressive
Senator Pat Carney giving her old
pal, Vancouver Sun columnist
Denny Boyd, hell.

She was really reaming him —
something about a letter to the ed-
itor that, she felt, fell into the
wrong hands ...

Boyd was unperturbed: “‘No
hig deal, Pat — you should be
chillin’.””

Downstairs, | spotted West
Vanners Tam Walker, the execu-
tive director of Tourism Van-
ccuver, and author Peter C.
Newman, zs well as Justice
Minister Kim “Zounds!-She-
Has-Shoulders!’ Campbell (why
wasii't she invited to the private
recepition?).

Foliowing a hilarious perfor-
mance by Vancouver's
Theatresports troupe and a very
nice dinner, West Van's Peter
Jones emceed the awards cere-
mony.

The winners, in five categories,
were Teresa Mallam of the
Cariboo Observer, CBC reporters
Terry Donnelly and Margo
Harper; and the Vancouver Sun's
Margaret Munio and David
Bains (f know what you're think-
ing, but the judges made their

decision long before the threat on
Bains’ life).

After a special tribute to Sun
cartoonist Len Norris, of West
Van, and a videotaped message
from 60 Minutes Mike Wallace,
Webster spoke about his state of
“somnolent retirement’ and
tried not to show his pride at the
awards, saying, “‘if ’'d known the
awards were going to last six
years, I'd never have gone along
with the gag.”’

And he told a very funny joke,
which t can’t print, 2bout Tim-
buktu — use your imagination.

Keith Morrison spoke at length
about his long ordeal — that ap-
pears to be the best way to
describe it — with KNBC in L.A,

Morrison, who told me he’s
thrilled’ to be home, said that
the state af journalism in the U.S.
where everything is “trivialized,”
made him “heartsick.”

He then compared the CBC toa

FEDERAL JUSTICE Minister
Kim Campbell! did not appear at
the private reception preceding
this year’s Webster Awards.

“dog who takes the bone from

the burglar and chews on the meal
while the house is being ransack-
ed.” :

Good thing he’s happy at CTV...

kkk

Christmas is one ruonth from
today. It’s nore of my business
what you buy for your loved ones,
but if you want a pet, please go to
the SPCA oy a local breeder — not
a pet store (the object is to put
puppy mills and crooked bird im-
porters out of business).

And it’s totally uncool to shop in
the States.

Located at Taylor Way and Marine Drive, West Vancouver.

Wednesday. Nov. 25, 1992 - North Shore News - 29

photos Louise Aird

ELLEN HIGGINS (left) won a prize for her costume, and Sandy
Drew looked fercciously fine at the B.C. Breast Cancer fundrais-
ing Halloween party.

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