ery happy Easter to West Vancouver’s Wayne MacKay, senior vice- president of marketing and membership services for Van- City — he’s having a very gocd week! Joy Metcalfe tells all ... His company, VanCity Savings, has just been named by the Finan- cial Post as one of the Best 100 Businesses in Canada, and it’s the VanCity senior vice-president of marketing and membership services Wayne MacKay is seeing green. 15 - Sunday, April 15, 1990 - North Shore News COCKTAILS ga CAVIAR second consecutive year that Van- City has been so honored! But never one to rest on his laurels, Wayne and his enthusiastic team have developed an entirely new program for their company. It’s called the VanCity Enviro Fund, where in return for your once-a-month use of your VanCity Visa card, a donation on your behalf will be made to this special fund. They’re now using china mugs, and recycling all their paper, and they've created their own cloth Enviro bags, and The Green Sheet, which lists 20 easy, logical steps to a green future and can be picked up any time. And the future is certainly what Wayne was thinking about last Wednesday night as he sat at his big desk working away diligently, long after everyone had gone home. It just happened to be his dirthday!... wee Speaking of honors, some peo- ple $} didn't mention who were at Peter Legge’s gala TV Week Awards dinner last week were leg- endary businessman, Frank Grif- Photo submitted ae fiths, his wife Emily, and their family. Hardly anyone even knew the chairman of the board of Western International Communications (WIC) was in the audience, which is not that surprising as he always keeps a very low profile. That cer- tainly will not be the case on June 16 at the Vancouver Trade & Con- vention Centre! That’s the night the Who’s Who of Business and Industry will gather to honor the West Van res- ident as he is presented with the Variety Club’s most prized Golden Heart Community Achievement Award for his legendary good works within and without his organization and throughout the community... eet Another fellow who was just saluted by his peers in almost as grand a party was Chartwell’s popular CKNW = sports broad- caster, Tom Larschied. More than 190 guests packed in- to the Centre Ice Restaurant, in- cluding son, Bob, and daughter, Candice, to roast/toast the youthful Thomas on his important S0th birthday! The evening's emcee was BCTV's witty weatherman, Norm Grotmana, with celebrity guests like the Properties’ heavy-duty businessman Harry Moll and his gorgeous wife Susie Moll; Herb Capozzi, who was Ellen-less; gen- tlemanly Wally Dezura, and Mur- ray Pezim, who had a blind date, courtesy of the always-tanned, almost-ageless playboy, Basil Pan- tages, who was there with his Jawyer-brother, West Van's Tony Pantages. in fact, the banker's banker, Nick Massee, leaned over and ask- ed Basil if he was going to get a finder’s fee, especially when the Pez announced he was in love again with the lady in the blonde braids. I’m told that the happy twosome disappeared quickly after the toasts and the buffet dinner to retire to the Pez’s mansion for a late-night swim. I'm sure he needs the exercise!... Canuck's Bob McCammon and Darcy Rota were there, along with “. Photo submitted Stock promoter deluxe Murray Pezim and his latest blonde bombshell at Tom Larschied’s roast/ioast. the B.C. Lions’ Joe Kapp and his wife... And, of course, his fellow sports guys were also on hand to give him a bad time, like ‘NW’s Sim Rob- son, J. Paul McConnell, BCTV’s Bernie Pascall, even his old team from the University of Utah flew in for the party!... This wasn’t just another birth- day party, cither. A few years back, Tom's beloved wife, B.R., died from diabetic complications and she was in everyone’s mind that night. So it was most ap- propriate that the funds raised that night, some $1,380 will go to the Canadian Diabetes Association. Tip of the hat to Greenwood’s Ingrid Traviss, a close friend of the family’s, who put the party together and managed to really surprise the stunned Mr. WOODWARD'S Good things. Good prices. Larschied... ane Over the past 20 years, West Van movieman Bob Grey has been in the forefront of film-making in British Columbia. From the early days of J. Arthur Rank’s massive technicolor ex- travaganza, The Trap with Rita Tushingham and Otiver Reed, the first major movie to be shot here, to B.C.’s Film Commissioner, to production manager of the big budget American Love Boat TV series that had him travelling all over the world, he’s done it all. But the big news about Bob last November was that, for the first time in his career, he had also More Joy Page 16