Average night out

ORTH VAN’S Neil Lamb recently hosted 300 at a

celebration of the completion of Phase Two of the

upgrading of Zenith Graphics, the color house that
Lamb and partner Don Ogden have owned for 42 years.

Over the past six years, Zenith
has spent $2 million on new elec-
tronic imaging equipment. In the
advertising industry, as in any
other these days t guess, you're
oniy as good as your technology
(and your staff, of course), and
many of Zenith’s competitors have
sunk because they haven't kept
up.

Anyway, Lamb wanted to show
off the new stuff,'so he borrowed
the lobby of-a partially completed
_ downtown office building, added
"a bar and a band and, well, par-
‘tied.

xkkk

“West Van's s summer community
events were successful.

At Dundarave’s annual Family
Hoedown, a few hundred people

-came to eat, drink, laugh at the

_clowns and watch their children’s

-batloons disappear into the’sky.-:
-- And schmooze,.of course. -

| The 2nd Annual.Harmony Arts

Festival was more elaborate.
. Throughout the six-day festival,
.. West Van businesses provided
space for displays by North Shore
cartists and there were-daily ArtBeat
“tours, children’s activities and
‘nearly non-stop live music from
: Park Rayal to Dundarave Pier
(where, during a jazz perfor-

‘ “mance; ! saw my first rat — you .
_ know they’re there but you don’t
expect them to make an appear-
“ance: "= how rude):

“At the festival’s opening, the

Greek Connection’s. Robert Eadie -

bartended while the Salmori-

‘House served barbecued salmon.

>ané Soul Survivors provided the -
’-tunes (is this the’ only band avail. ;
. able, or iwhat?). 7
’.. "Mayor Mark Sager was there,
still waxing rhapsodic over his sail-
_ing race to Hawaii, and well-built
; MP Mary Coilins accepted a
‘Harmony, Arts Festival T-shirt,”

REALTOR “ASHLING Belahunt (left) with a possible future pzime

Louise Aird
BRIGHT LIGHTS

decided to put it on, then checked
out the size and thought better of
it. Good choice, Mare.

kak

Went down to Yuk Yuk’s to see
Saturday Night Live's Ellen
Cleghorne (you know’ her as the
annoying NBC page and Natalie
Cole singing with various dead
people). .

She was so-so funny. | hear she
has a rather large chip on her
shoulder. It shows.

Oddly, the headliner wasn’t
Cleghorne, but Branifard, Ont.’s
Roper Chandler (he and his name
don’t match —- see photo).

I can’t get Specific about
Chandier’s jokes (my editor won't
even let me use the ward “slob”

_ — 1 tried ence).

Suffice it to say that, since | was.
never taught about how bodily
functions relate to farm machin-

- ery, most of his jokes went directly

over my head. (Am ! missing a

meaningful part of life here?)

And the rest of his low-brow
routine focused on that part of the
male anatomy which, to him —

-and the men in the audience — is
the most important. Yawn.

The funniest performer was the
best — Calgary-born Vancouverite
Craig Campbell — who provided
a therapeutic laugh-till-you-can’t-

: breathe-and-you-have-mascara-on

; minister of ireland, her sister, Kairyn.

Zerith ‘Account executive Craig Harpey (lett) with the firm’s

president Neti Lamb and Hemlock Printers’ Trish Harper.

Wednesday, September 9, 1992 - North Shore News - 20

WEWS photo Paul McGrath

SALMON HOUSE chei Larry Ehrenholiz serves barbecued salmon at the opening of the- ‘Harmony

Arts Festival.

-your-forehead routine. (One
screamer was his bit about how it
takes so long to finish an icy-road
spin-out in Alberta that you can
discuss it while it’s happening.) -

Hopefully, we'll see Campbell!
on the Tonight Show soon. 1 the
meantime, the show was filmed by
West Yan's Michael Mead, pro-
ducer of The Performers, so look
for it on BCTV.

kk

People seem to be getting jaded

‘about AIDS benefits lately. They

don’t know where the money goes
or if it’s helping (we have yet to
find out what happened to the

- Freddy Mercury tribute concert

proceeds — or where his $16 mil-

lion AIDS-directed bequest is).
Anyway, Joe Average is a local

artist who has won hearts through

his generosity to the not-for-profit

AT YuK YUK'S with comedians Craig Campbell and Roge)

Chandier.

sector and through his andlessly -
cheerful personality.

He has many admirers (in-
cluding Princess Diana, who
once had him to tunch in Ottawa.
Fergie probably would have had
him forlunch), and when his T-
celf count recently dropped (he’s
been HIV-positive for 10 years),
his friends organized a fundraiser

ifically tor him, rather than for -

ti 1 battle against AIDS in general.

Many of the 4G0 guests grumbi-
ed about the $59 cost of attending
“An Average Night Out,”’ which
took place at the Diane Farris
Gallery, but they were missing the
point — the idea was to raise
enough money for Average to live
comfortably and to continue
painting when he actually gets
AiDS.

And, through ticket and art
sales, 2 tidy $50,000 was raised.

it was 2 nice party (the hors

d’oewsres were spectacular), al-
though | the crowd was a little, er,
different and there were major
fashion errers. ,

Ladies, one does not wear work

‘beots with one’s mini dress and if

you must wear a see-through
blouse with your tutu, don’t wear
a bra.

I spent the evening outside,
watching people come and go,
and chatting with West Vanners .
Penny Christie, Cameron Ban- — -
croft and Shannan Walker — and :
with Vancouver's Ashting «©
Delahunt and her sister, Xatryn,_-.
who was here for'a visit following
the American Bar Association
convention in San Francisco. |”

The next time you hear mention
of Katryn Delahunt, it may be in
the capacity of Prime Minister of -
Ireland. a

She's one of Dublin’s most
prominent and influential at-
torneys, a more ardent feminist.

“than (and a good friend cf) Presi-- -.
dent Mary Robinson, and she. has, :

strong political ties and aspira-
tions. : .

Join us Saturday,
Sept. 12 for the.
Edgemont Village:
Bavarian Festival. We
will have a special

i sidewalk display of

’ European gift idéas.

9080 Edgemont Bivd.
North Vancouver, BC.
4, 986-4862