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Louise Aird
BRIGHT LIGHTS

CT PARTY at

downtown's

Madison's Nightspot
June 1, when 500 seriously
hip guests gathered to cele-
brate the first birthday of
295.3 FM, English Canada’s
first dance radio station.

Madison’s used to be Systems,
but it's now a much more
dignified place to be seen, thanks
to the efforts of new owner Dale
McRitchie.

The room is large, open and
clean (nice change), and there’s a
huge dance floor and an excellent
sound system.

North Shoreites spotted among
the balloons included Marquis
Consultants’ brother-and-sister
team George and Rhoda
Rizkallah, North Van marketing
exec Ress Carriere and West Van
fireman Tom Attieh, with his sibl-
ings Rob and Julie.

There were rumors that MC
Hammer was to appear — he
didn’t — but 295, which prides
itself on encouraging local talent,
provided live entertainment for
most of the evening.

Best act was the West End
Girls who are really very good —
if, in fact, they were singing.

t couldn't tell if the other acts,
such as rapper Mike Desire and
Love ’n Sass were live or
Memorex, but Lisa Lougheed
pulled a Silli — er, Milli Vanilli and
did it badly — even missing words
in her lip-synching. There should
be a law,

Emmeline, who performed with
a spaced-out Gold’s Gym victim,
unfortunately did sing. Again,
there should be a law.

Great party anyway — the in-
spired and energetic Monday-night
crowd danced till 2 a.m.

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June 4 was the night of the 10th
Annual Western Magazine Awards
at the Hotel Vancouver, hosted by
the CBC's Vicki Gabereau, Bill
Richardson and Mark Starowicz
(executive producer of The Journal
and Midday).

After a day of industry-related
seminars, including one by Life
Magazine assistant managing edi-
tor Daniel Okrent, 200 gathered
for the banquet and awards cere-
monies.

The Western Magazine Awards
Foundation encourages editorial
excellence in Western Canada’s
magazine industry and, to that
end, presents 26 awards each year

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WEST VANNER Judy Johnson,
spotted at the Western Maga-
zine Awards at Hotel Van-

couver.

for writing, photography, ilustra-
tion and art direction.

North Shore winners at the
function, organized by the North
Shore's Tina Baird (West Van's
Sue Fisher, of Vancouver Maga-
zine, is the board president) were
Liberal MLA David Mitcheil, for
his B.C. Business article, The Fail-
ed Experiment, and Terry
McPhedran for her Van Mag arti-
cle Laok What They’ve Done to
My Neighborhood. Writer Terry
Gould was also a finalist in
various Categories.

it was a great party, with only
one flaw. My hand stil! hurts from
shaking hands with new Van-
couver Magazine editor John
Keyes (formerly of TV Guide).
Why do men do that?

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A good time was had by all at
the June 5 Vancouver Celebrity
Waiters Luncheon at the Water-
front Centre Hotel.

The luncheon was for the pur-
pose of raising money for the
Leukemia Research Fund, and did
they raise money. Serious dollars
— $100,000 in 2¥2 hours.

With that total, this luncheon —
Vancouver's first — moves into
the big leagues of fundraising
along with Endeavour, whic
raises about $800,000 in seven
hours. We won't talk about the
amount of time it takes to put
these things together...

To be realistic, though, Rich-
mond Lexus donated a car. That's
$60,000 right there: however, it
was sold in under five minutes so
people really came prepared to
spend.

Other popular items included
sports weekends, jewelry, a two-
seater Hovercraft, a Mickey
Mantle-signed baseball, the op-
portunity to cream your waiter
with a pie, and most memorably, a
six-foot stuffed Mickey Mouse,
which was auctioned off by nine-
year-old leukemia survivor ‘Sam’
after he sweetly thanked everyone
for their generosity.

Thanks to Sam’s irresistible
adorableness, Mickey sold for
$6,000. Perhaps auctioneer Barry
Scott would like an apprentice?

The luncheon tock place among
organized pandemonium created
by ebullient waiters CP Hotels
regional VP Michael Lambert,
West Van’s Michael Kaile (GM of
the host hotel), West Van Mayor
Mark Sager, jacqui Cohen,
BCTV’s Norm Grohman, B.C.
Lion Jamie Taras, Bob Kadlec,
Peter Legge, John Cassils and
Avtar Bains from the business
world, and Whistler Mayor Ted
Nebbeling, among others, most of
whom were dressed in costumes
ranging from Southern Belle to
Rastafarian to Swiss Mountain Boy
to Sultan,

While guests lunched on
mushroom soup, salad and
chicken/prawn kebabs, violinists,
guitarists, B.C. Lions cheerleaders
and a Marilyn Monroe imper-
sonator roamed the room en-
couraging people to ‘tip’ (read:
write cheques) and bid.

Those who did not spend were
presented with a rock in water in
lieu of soup, half an onion instead
of salad and a rubber chicken for
the main course. So people spent.

Among the North Shore big
spenders were Steven Funk, new
dad Harald Ludwig, Bob
Solioway, Biil McFetridge and
Frank Bernard (who says he rues
the day he sold the Park Royal
Hotel).

And among the donors was the
most hyper politician I’ve ever
seen, Mayor Sager, who donaied a
dinner for four on his sailboat,
prepared by Hizzoner Himself.

Bids on his donation were slug-
gish so Sager got up on the stage,
grabbed the mike and, looking all
those developers straight in the
eye, drummed up his own bids —
to a selling price of about $2,000 !
believe,

Organizer Brooke de Boutray
and her volunteers did a fabulous
job with this function — they'll
have no trouble topping their suc-
cess next year I’m sure.

Wednesday, June 17, 1992 - North Shore News — 34

THE CREW of Z95.3FM (photo above) headed up the crowd at
Madison's Nightspot, June 1, to celebrate the new dance radio
station. North Shore partygoers included Rob, Julie and Tom At-
tieh (phote left).

photos Louise Aird
MICHAEL LAMBERT (left) and Michael Kaile contributed to the

organized pandemonium at the Celebrity Waiters Luncheon at the
Watertront Centre Hotel.

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