Joy
Metcalfe

JOY TELLS ALL

WHILE THE 77th annual
Pacific National Exhibition
is over for this year, I hard-
ly think that it was lucky
77

Even without the downpour
during the final week, attendance
figures were way down. The good
news is that someone who is way
up on cloud nine is the North
Shore’s George Jacobs. He and
his wife, Christine, and their three
grown children live right on the
border between North and West
Vancouver. They were the ecstatic
winners of the 1991 PNE prize
home.

Their phone went crazy im-
mediately after their win was an-
nounced. The item is that George
and Christine had no idea of their
good fortune until CKNW news
called. They hadn’t attended the
fair or even seen the architectur-
ally designed house!

The winning ticket was bought
for them by a close friend who
happened to be vacationing with
them. You can bet that she'll
always be a welcome guest.
George tells me that since they al-
ready have their own home, they
plan to sell their newest acquisi-
tion...

Lions Bay resident, author and
broadcaster Terry Moore and his
son, Pan Pacific Hotel chef
Patrick Moore, attracted great
crowds to their Celebrity Cooking
Show at the PNE. Terry says that
some 15,500 people attended the
72 shows over the course of the
fair.

They created tasty tortellini
dishes, using some 70 pounds of
tortellini and 80 pounds of Flet-
cher’s ham, and turkey and Etalian
spicy sausage.

Sunday, September 8 8, 1991 - North Shore News - 19

COCKTAILS & CAVIAR

Besides dilty dill bread and B.C.
seafood chowder, they also
created a molle of turkey, beef
and sausage with the secret ingre-
dient being Purdy’s semi-sweet
chocolate!

The only disappointment for
Terry and Patrick was that they
almost had Brian Mulroney on
Stage, cooking up a storm. The
prime minister had agreed to
make a surprise appearance last
Thursday but the heavens opened,
the rains came down, and the PM
cancelled.

The good news is that, through
their 12-hour day efforts and even
washing their own dishes, Terry
has been approached by cookware
manufacturers and cook book
publishers for some new business
opportunities ...

Someone who rarely fishes, and
this particular time, really wishes
he hadn't, is a fellow who has
been a fixture in the world of
advertising and communications
for the past 20-odd years, Sentinel
Hill's Neil Soper.

The executive vice-president of
Canada Wide Magazines, Neil
almost drowned in a serious
boating accident, during the Ex-
port A Salmon Showdown at
Sonora Lodge a couple of weeks

WILLY BRUECKEL has recently
added a Heart Smart menu at
the Ambleside Inn.

ago. He was there merely as part
of the promotion team with the
Vancouver Sun and CKNW and
decided at the last minute to try
his luck with the rod. He was
fishing with pharmaceutical exccu-
tive, Wing Chu, when their boat
hit a deadhead dead on!

As they smashed into the log,

- Neil’s hip was fractured and they

were both thrown into the water.

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As he went ever the side, Neil's

foot caught in the Boston whaler’s

Tizging.

Fortunately he was wearing a
full floatation outfit. But he did
suffer a broken femur, as well as
a severed artery and badly cut

right hand. Wing Chu was OK but

suffered a cut face.
Again luck was with Neil. A

doctor was nearby and there was a

helicopter at the lodge to whisk
him away immediately to hospital
in Campbell River. About ten
days ago, Neil was transferred to
University Hospital at UBC. (As
he quipped to the nurses there,
he'd always wanted to go to
UBC.)

i'm happy to report that he’s
recovering very nicely..

Speaking of treasuring your
good health, restaurateurs Willy
and Marta Brueckel of the charm-
ing Ambleside Inn have just in-
Stituted an interesting new facet to
their dining experience. It's their
new Heart Smart menu — delec-
table, eye-appealing and so
healthful!

The menu has proved to be a
big hit with their regular custom-
ers. As has their other heart-smart
ideas of having dancing on Friday
and Saturday nights, tripping the
light fantastic being the very best
form of exercise for your heart
and for your mind. So good on
you guys! ...

Kudos, too, to the manager of
the Maplewood Farms in North
Vancouver, April Johnston. Last
Saturday night at the height of the
electrical storm, one of the cows
began to give birth. She didn't
have time to try and locate the vet
so she handled the situation alone
with the lights flickering, the
lightning flashing and the thunder
booming. At ihe end of a very
tough night, Maplewood Farms
had a new but very large baby
bull calf. Because he was born
during the raging storm, they’re
considering calling him Stormin’
Norman ... Today, Sept. 8, is the
fourth annual Vancouver SPCA
Walkathon along Stanley Park's
Seawall. The fundraiser starts at
Brockton Oval with registration
beginning at 10:30 this morning.
I’ll be there hosting this event
along with U-TV’s Douglas Miller
of Lions Bay. So bring along your
kids and your canines and please
join us! The SPCA does such a
worthwhile job, caring for those
that can’t help themselves! ...
Cheers!

Photo submitted
PNE PRESIDENT Morgan Thomas pours some celebratory bub-

bly for the North Shore’s George and Christine Jacobs, winners
of the PNE prize home.

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