OUT TO salute a princess were West Vancouver realtor Sherrill
Shapiro and her friend Sherry Thompson.

Louise Aird
BRIGHT LIGHTS

SURPRISINGLY

large crowd of 150

appeared at sunny
Rogers Plaza for the May 23
unveiling of “North Shore
Rhapsody” and “‘Joe
Bustemente Trumpet,” two
bronze statues cornmission-
ed by North Vancouver City
and the North Shore Arts
Commission from Polish-
born sculptor Richard Wo-
jciechowski.

These pieces are the first from
the city’s Art in Public Places pro-
ject, and the committee was, I'm
told, fortunate to get Wo-
jciechowski with its budget — he’s
apparently quite famous in
Europe.

The statues’ them best
described by the artist: ‘‘In the
centre of the plaza, a woman with

a harp plays a timeless melody --
a North Shore Rhapsody. The
harp, covered with scenes of
North Van's history, also repre-
sents a ship. While the wind plays
the tune, the harp/ship sails
without worry of jog or direction
because Joe Bustemente’s trumpet
guides it to safety and announces
its arrival to the public.”

(Joe Bustemente was well-
known as the one-armed North
Van musician who, for 20 years,
trumpeted jerry captains to the
docks in bad weather.)

The statues are now there for all
to sev. Rogers Plaza, also newly-
completed, is located above the
Esplanade, right beside the Keg.

That night, there was another
packed party on the patio at Pep-
pi’s, when Roseway Travel, Travel
Experts and Whytecliff Travel
sponsored a salute to the Regal
Princess.

! arrived late but was told that
Peppi’s had done a fabulous job
with the hors d’oeuvres, and it was
obvious that a great deal of cham-
pagne had been happily consum-
ed.

West Van realtor Sherrill
Shapiro and her friend, Sherry
Thompson, also of West Van, are
leaving on their Caribbean cruise
this month — a gift to themselves

THE VERY
Henderson was also at Peppi's
to salute the Regal Princess.

for their ‘21st birthdays.’’ Also
there was SAGE Group’s Stuart
Henderson with his charming
wite Sheilah, executive director of
Endeavour.

The point of the party was, |
assume, to sell cruises to guests,
and the agents seemed to be doing
well. And just before seven
o'clock, the dolphin-shaped Regal
Princess sailed past and everyone
waved at it (although | think the
wobbly lady next to me, who'd
been there since five o'clock, was
waving at fwo ships.)

Several hundred Vancouver
Board of Trade members crowded
the Pan Pacific Hotel’s Crystal
Ballroom for the board’s May 28
Governors’ Banquet.

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SCULPTOR RICHARD Wojciechowski (top photo) poses with
North Vancouver City mayor Jack Loucks in front of his sculpture
North Shore Rhapsody, which was recently unveiled at Rogers’
Plaza. And luscious in black and white satin was West Van-
couverite Leona Burnett (photo above) and beau Richard Lindsey

The evening's theme was
‘North to Alaska’, so the guest of
honor was Alaska Governor
Walter Hickel. Also there was
Governor Viadimir Kuznetzov of

FORMER

LIEUTENANT—GOV. Henry Bell-Irving poses wit

Capilano-Howe Sound MP Mary Cullins at the Governor's Banquet

at the Pan Pacitic.

Primorye (don't ask), Premier
Mike Harcourt, Mayor Gorden
Campbell, Yukor, Commissioner
Ken McKinnon, the Capitano-
Howe Sound MP Mary Collins,
and Patrick Reid, (who provided
a laugh by dictating a lengthy
treatise to Vancouver Sun colum-
nist Mac Parry, who was on his
knees before Reid throughout}

Board of Trade managing direc-
tor Darcy Rezac was there with
his new wife, former West Vanite
Gayle Hallgren.

(Gayle and her sister Tara have
just transferred their energies from
Cookies By George to their new
restaurant chain O-Tooz, which
offers high-energy, healthy fast
food.)

at the Governor's Banquet.

Naturally, those best-dressed
were from the North Shore.

West Van's Leona Burnett, in
black-and-white satin, and beau
Richard Lindsey looked great.

Waterfront Hotel GM Michael
Kaile looked dashing as usual, and
formes lieutenant-governor, briga-
dier, the honorable Henry Bell-
Irving was smart in his tuxedo
with his Seaforth Highlanders tar-
tan cummerbund {although con-
sidering the shape that organiza-
tion’s in, I'm not sure that was a
good idea).

Can we get something straight
here ladies? The event was black

tie, but since it was a weekday,
gowns weren’t expected. But if
you're goiny out with your hus-
band and he’s wearing a tuxedo,
dsess up for Pete’s sake!

The Vancouver Board of Trade
labors to sell Vancouver as an in-
ternational city yet the women
show up at the Governor's Ball
dressed for cocktails in Sarnia.

(My favorite ensemble was the
marine-blue dress, black patterned
stockings and show-white pumps
— very nice. Or maybe, the
beaded-sequined-taffeted-chif-
foned-shortened-then-sprayed-
on-prom-dress