Louise Aird BRIGHT LIGHTS FTER JUMPING through a zillion hoops, | managed to get a ticket to the Babylo- nian Society's june 5 Trop- ical Fever party at the Van- couver Rowing Club. The Babylonian Society is, | gather, a group of Dalhousie giraduates/lawyers who have par- ties twice a year to raise money for charitable organizations. This year, thanks to their efforts, the Boys and Girls Clubs will receive about $6,000 to send otherwise home- bound children to summer camp. The party was absolutely jamm- ed with at feast 300 people, mostly lawyers, making it a little awkward to mingle. Two West Van hunksters were spotted, though — accountant Brandon Fahy and lawyer Peter Brasso, who was there, he said, “to meet girls.’ So, bachelorettes, don’t despair — there are still good-looking single men out there who are capable of intelligent conversa- tion. You just have to look under the right rock. Typical of lawyers to make it supremely difficult to get tickets to their own fundraiser, but it was worth it. Everyone had a great time and the band ‘‘Stripes’’ was fabulous as always. it's hard to describe a party like this. Think of thirtysomething meets Animal House. No, just imagine your lawyer, dressed in a Hawaiian shirt and holding a glass of rum punch while dancing to “Vm Too Sexy For My Car.”’ . kkk . June 7 was Boaters’ Day ‘92. I'm still not precisely sure what it was actually for — something to do ‘with celebrating B.C.’s boating heritage and reminding people about Boat Safety Week. Whatever it was for, about 700 boats met to take part in the False Creek boat parade, the weather was absolutely perfect, and everyone seemed to have a marvellous time. } was fortunate to be invited to attend the rally by the Shriners, who have their own yacht club and who were represented by. WEST VAN piper Hugh Aird (photo above) serenaded False Creek on Goaters’' Day ‘92 while Shrine host-ship captain Bob Orr (centre, photo above ight), West Van piper Charley Henry (left) and North Van- couver drummer Jerry Holbrook rallied inside the Owaissa. Orr hosted the 20- piece Shrine Pipe Band members (10 are from the North Shore) much to the. delight of spectators and beaters at Granville island/ False Creek. several boats in a sort of Shriners armada. Our host was Shrine member, Vancouver businessman and low-key gentleman Bob Orr who, along with wife Grace and a few friends, hosted the Shrine Pipe Band members (10 of whom are from the North Shore) and their wives, much to the delight of the throng of spectators and hundreds of boaters at Granville Island/Faltse Creek. | don’t think many people have seen a 20-piece pipe band in full regalia playing on the bow of a. huge yacht. Nearly caused a stampede on the deck at Bridges. Orr's yacht was something to behold. The 95-foot Owaissa (the name is Indian for ‘bluebird’ and comes from The Song of, Hiawatha) is magnificent. ft was built in Vancouver three years ago at a reported cost of $4 million: and is a work of art in birds-eye maple and navy kid skin. It has five bathrooms — they're too big to be called “‘heads’” — and a kitchen most North Shore homeowners could only dream about. There is bevelled, frosted glass everywhere, inscribed with the word “‘Owaissa’’ and every SOAKING UP the rays onboard the Owaissa were (left to right) North Shore women frene Henry and Grace Reeves. Wednesday, June 24, 1892 — North Shore News - 29 conceivable convenience. The cost of fuel? Hf you have to ask... kkk Congratulations to Craig and Trish Harper on the birth of their daughter Stephanie, who was born at Lions Gate Hospital June 2. (Trish Harper was Trish Max- well-Smith of the British Properties clan.) A few months ago, | had the temerity to suggest to Stephanie’s Photos Louise Aird father, while he was tossing around boys’ names, that he may have a daughter this time (son Sam is three). And although he’s my very good friend, | nearly doused him with his beer for his astonishingly chauvinistic reply: “don’t make girls.” Well, he — they — made one, and Craig is aksolutely thrilled with his new little girl who, was born on his birthday. FELLOW BABYLONIAN Peter Brasso, of West Vancouver, was at the June 5 Tropical Fever party at the Vancouver Rowing Club “to meet girls.”