22 - Sunday, December 31, 1989 - North Shore News

appy last day of the year
and happy last Sunday
of 1989! It's a time for

gentle reflection, to
promise to take better care of
yourselves so you can take care of
those near and dear to you, for
remembering good friends who

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have passed away over the last
year, to renew old acquaintances,
to visit the sick and help the poor
and the homeless, and to inake a
vow to assist in preserving the en-
vironment even into your day-to-
day home life.

It’s time to look at the many
things in your life that worked this
year and the few things that didn’t,
and to recall daily the Serenity
Prayer.

So, on the fina! night of 1989,
whether you're having a blast of a
big bash at one of the numerous
parties or a quiet evening at home
in front of the fire, make it a safe,
thoughtful and very Happy New
Year!...

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Very happy new year to West
Van's freckle-faced entertaining
rock star, Bryan Adams. Bryan
returned home from Surrey in
England, where he’s been working
on new music, just in time to
spend Christmas with his mother,
brother and the rest of the family

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in North Vancouver.

Those lucky folk also enjoyed
the company of Bryan’s favorite
lady, the glamorous Victoria
Russell, who joined them just in
time for the holidays.

Miss Vickie is the daughter of
the famed film director Ken
Russeli, and while she’s not really
an actress, she’s appeared in hun-
dreds of films, especially notable
as the bride in ‘The Rocky Hor-
ror Picture Show.’’ She works
mainly behind the scenes now in
movies and commercials.

According to her friend, jane
(Mrs. Bruce Alien) Macdougall,
Victoria is a lovely person who
always has a sense of festivity
about her, and is just perfect for
Bryan.

On Wednesday afternoon,
Bryan, Victoria, Bruce and his
assistant, Kim Blake, flew out on a
747 for a huge sold-out show far
across the Pacific Ocean. Bryan is
the headliner at the New Year's
Eve gala concert at the 60,000-seat
Tokyo Dome tonight. And he'll do
another repeat sell-out tomorrow
night in the same stadium.

Then he and Vickie and Bruce

will jump into another jet and
return home to Vancouver for
another couple of weeks. Kim
Blake is delaying her return home
as she is taking her annual two-
week holiday and flying off to
Australia. and the Land Down
Under...

Starting the New Year right is a
popular and jolly little fellow,
who, if he'd been of a bigger
build, would have made the ideal
Santa Claus! Veteran punster and
former items columnist with the
Vancouver Province, Himie
Koshevoy, celebrates his 80th bir-
thday on Wednesday, January 3rd.

The ageless Mr. Koshevoy lived
for many years on the WV water-
front with his wife, Katie, befure
moving to a pretty bungalow on
Hadden Drive. His new neighbor
was one of the founders of CHAN
Tv, now BCTV, Ch. 8, Art Jones.

For years, Art had had a grumpy
neighbor next doer to him so he'd
let the huge laurel hedge between
the properties really grow and
flourish. When the house was sold

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Home for the holidays ... our favorite local rock star, Bryan

Adams, spent Christmas at home with his family, but had to
keep a New Year's Eve performing date in Tokyo ....

‘‘Best integrated shopping
experience of 1989 ”’

Fashionable shopping in the

Sample Room

Fashionable dining inside

at Johni’s Bistro

Telephone: 685-8485
1000 MAINLAND

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and Himie and Katie moved in,
within a few weeks, Art got out his
chain saw and cut a large hole in
the hedge, just to be nearer to his
nice new friends.

Himie, known affectionately as
the jewish leprechaun, had his
bright and informative column in
the Province from August of 1961
until he retired in 1976, always
featuring the funny side of life,
with a joke or a quip and never
and unkind word. He epitomized
the Christmas spirit of good
fellowship all vear round!

For years, you'd see that unmat-
ched couple of journalists, big Bill
Good Sr. who is well over six feet
tall, and tiny Himie, who is barely
five feet tall, strolling the WV
seawall walk.

But he finally had to move
again. After years of trying to
manage alone, it became neces-
sary to get Himie’s wife, Katie, into
Evergreen’ House at Lions Gate

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Lonsdale Quay
Market

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Codorniu, Henkell,
Mumms and
other sparklers
to take you
into the 90's.

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925-3663

Hospital. So Himie sold their
Haddon home and moved over to
North Van to be closer to his
beloved Katie. He visits twice a
day every day, as loving and as
caring as the day they were mar-
ried.

it's a true love story, one from
which we could all learn. Happy
80th birthday on Wednesday,
Himie, and many, many morel...

Art Jones, besides founding Ch.
8, is also a former executive direc-
tor of Tourism Vancouver and is
currently operating his own con-
sultancy firm. In fact, it was Art
who was in charge of the promo-
tion and public relations for the
extensively revamped and updated
historic treasure which, when it
was opened, was the tallest build-
ing in the British Empire, the
Marine Building.

Art still lives in his attractive
tudor on Mulgrave in the Proper-
ties with his wife, Mary, and |

photo Cindy Goodman
Happy birthday! The almost-80-year-old Himie Koshevoy, shown with
a photo of his beloved wife Katie, will be celebrating another year on
Wednesday.

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