The dapper old chrome-dome had been in town 10 do some work on the North Shore on one of the best locally produced tele- vision series, The Commish, with star Michael Chiklis. Apparently the directors have now decided that Telly will make regular periodic appearances on the show — as a villain! ... Also spotted a couple of high- profile VIPs in the lobby of Le Meridien Hotel tast week. One was the very striking black model named Vanity. She’s only about 5°5°’, but she carries herself so majestically that you’d think she was much taHer. She’s probably best known as the ex-girlfriend of Prince. The other personality was the rotund, jolly actor, Charles Durn- ing. Charles plays either a lovable old character or an evil fiend. He’s one of the stars of the new television movie called When a Stranger Calls Again. The rest of the news from Louis Daniel's elegan: hotel was the in- troduction of ‘Tea Time Meri- dien-style’’ last Wednesday after- noon with the addition of tradi- tional oriental tea ceremonies, costumed servers and the psychic revealings of Kassandra... Still with ethnic excursion, we were almost in the Highlands of Scotland last week at the opening of the new offices of the prestigious Burnaby law firm of Doig, Baily, MacLean, Greenbank and Murdock. Their new company offices are located in the newly opened MetroTower 2, where the entire eighth floor has been taken over and turned into a mini-St. An- drew’s golf course. Founder and senior partner Harrison Doig thought it ap- propriate to invite the City of Burnaby and Burnaby Hospital SOMETHING THAT I forgot to mention is that just as we were exiting Vancouver International last Saturday night from our fantastic Caribbean cruise aboard the Regal Princess, we ran right into the rugged actor, Telly Savalas. Joy Metcalfe JOY TELLS ALL officials to join them as they cele- brated their 100th and 40th an- niversaries respectively. So it was a three-way fundrais- ing birthday party to celebrate 165 collective years of community ser- vice, The unique and fun fundraiser was indoor golf and law partners FRANK BAILY’S law firm ra funds for Burnaby Hospital. NEWS photo Mike Wakefietd ARTIST JANE Coulthard-Adams (left) and Karen Farus (right) submit works of art to Joan Anderson, president of the 27th annual Endeavour Auction to be held Nov. 14. and some 300 friends were literaliy ‘chipping in"* to raise funds for the Neo-natal Recciving Unit of Burnaby Hospital's maternity ward. There was Scottish music, Scot- tish tartan, a Scottish piper anda wee dram of the finest Scottish whiskey just to add to the am- bience of the event. In fact, all that was missing was the haggis! One of the proud, initial members of the law firm is West Vancouver’s Frank Baily, who was very happy welcoming celebrities like Burnaby mayor Bill Copeland, ex-Vancouver police chief Bob Stewart and resiaurant owner and former Liberal big-wig Sev Morin to the happy event. Best of all, the partners manag- ed to raise $3,500 on the chipping contest and then added a further $5,000 to the fundraising total. The evening was very nicely or- chestrated by North Van’s petite and pretty PR lady, Laura Van- driel... aee NEWS photo Cindy Goodman BARBARA JOE (left) sips tea with psychic Kassandra at Le Meridien last week. 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