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Christmas fundraisers under way to help kids

IT’S BEEN a very busy
week for most of the hotel
GMs about town,

Joy
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JOY TELLS ALL

At the Four Seasons VP and
GM Ruy Paes-Braga, Children’s
Hospital's Stephanie Southam
Carlson and festival chairman
Nigel Brown welcomed about 150
guests for the reception launch of
their fundraising Christmas tree-
lighting ceremony for the
Children’s Hospital's cighth an-
nual Festival of Trees.

Also met the hotel’s new PR
woman Maureen Richardson, who
was chatting with the generous
benefactors such as executives of
the Red Robin Restaurants, the
Paris family and Starbucks’ Roly
Morris while a brass quartet

* played wonderful Christmas music
to get everyone in the mood]...

At exactly the same time GM
Louis Daniel and manager Pat

« Clairmont of Le Meridien Hotel
were lauaching their eighth annual
Yuletide Lights of Hope to benefit
the HIV Children’s Care Unit at

_ Children's Hospital with the help
of the airline industry.

The entertainment was provided
by the tuneful young ladies of the
Noel Vocal Trio.

Kiss FM’s Dale Buote, Mary and
Ashley Ford, Ecky and Sylvia

Oh ate

MIKE ROGERS (left)
couver’s Timber Club.

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GORDON CAMPBELL

Priebe, Kerry MePhedran, Frank
Ogden and Carol Baker, Alan
Daniels and Japan Airlines’ Met
Seatt were all enjoying the
festivities,

Great to meet Le Meridien's
new PR director Judy Ahola, who
began new job a month aga...

Despite the fact that the han-
dreds of delegates to the 69th an-
nual B.C. and Yukon Hotels
Association convention were din-
ing ea masse in his hotel, the
dashing general manager of the
Waterfront Centre Hotel, Michael
Kaile, decided to skip out. But he
did have a very good reason,

He wanted to celebrate his 19th
wedding anniversary with his
lovely wife Diana in a lovely quiet
spot, far from the madding crowd
where they could enjoy a superb
yet romantic dinner.

The Playhouse also hosted a
reception to preview some of the
International Wine Festival's
wines in the Timber Club of Hotel
Vancouver.

Wine fest chair Kathy
Swanguard introduced New
Zealand Con. Gen. trvin Paulin
and American consul Bill Fleming
and German consul Marcel Tan-
cre,

Hit of the evening was the
Playhouse's very witty boss, Susan
Cox, and her musical trio. The
festival will take place Mar. 2,
1994, with 14 countries and 116
wineries taking part.

And for the first time, South
African wines will also be on the
bill...

Beaujolais Nouveau parties took
place at Vintage Consultants
where PR woman Diana Barkley
was being serenaded by North
Vancouver’s Leo Aquino while
over at the Coast Plaza Mary
Collins chatted with Jamie Maw
and Mike Rogers and Lynn and
Kerry Dix sampled the wines...

It was also a very emotional
evening at Mark Armstronp’s
Delta Place Hotel as the Make-

with Lynn and Kerry Dix at the International Wine

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THE SEVENTH annual Crysta! Balt attracted a glittering crowd, including Mary and Franco Iglesias

(left) and Bergie Wilson.

a-Wish Foundation celebrated its
10th anniversary.

Make-a-Wish president Rickie
Wylie saluted the sponors, volun-
teers and most especially, the wish
families.

Some of those on hand for the
celebration were WestCoin presi-
dent Ted Smith, Canuck Founda-
tion's George Jarvis and singer-
composer Paul Jang and his pretty

Dazde Her!

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of Estate Jewellery

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wife Beth.

They wrote and performed a
song especially for the charity
called Some Hearts Reach High
back in 1987...

The seventh annual Crystal Ball,
a sold-out glittering affair at the
Four Seasons, attracted some 350
dressy guests like John Turner and
Edgar Kaiser, Vancouver mayor
Philip Owen, West Van mayor
Mark Sager and his pert wite

pei

Kathy, the Grits’ Gordon Camp-
bell and his Nancy, Bob and Lily
Lee, Carol Taytor and Art
Phillips, Mary and Franco Ig-
tesias, Bergie Wilson, Bev van
Hatten, Kerry and Lynn Dix and
the auctioneer, Barry Scott.

West Van's Terry Alexander
won the Harley Davidson motor-
cycle for $26,500, while zillionaire
Peter Wail outbid everyone fora
large painted giraffe. Peter paid a
whopping $26,500 for the tall toy.
... Cheers!

MAKE-A-WISH president Rickie Wylie (left) with the Canuck
Foundation’s George Jarvis at the Make-a-Wish foundation’s 10th

anniversary.

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