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JOY TELLS ALL

WHILE IT was a happy
holiday for most of us last
weekend, it was something
of'a bad dream for BCTV
assistant news director Keith
Bradbury.

His long-sought-after star from
U-TV, Suzette Myers, had just up
and left BCTV after just one week
at the station. Apparently BCTV
had been wooing Suzette for some

‘time and were © quite ecstatic when

Someone who was having a
much better day was North Van’s
Greg Athans, photographer of
note, the winner of four snow-
skiing titles and 15 water-skiing
championships.

Greg has just been invited as
one of the select athletes to cele-
brate the 25th anniversary of the
Canada Games. A gala benefit
party is planned for Quebec City
on Friday, Sept. 18.

Greg Athans is the only person
to win gold medals in both
Canada Summer and Winter
Games, He’ll be joining other
sports celebrities like speed skater
Gaetan Boucher, high-jumperGreg
Joy and track star Diane Jones-
Korihowski.

Meanwhile Greg is just finaliz-
ing the dates and his star lineup
for the second annual Greg
Athans Children’s Hospital Ski
Camp fundraising weekend.

Last year’s two-day event raised
$12,900. He promises that this
year’s event will be ever bigger,
with more skiers and celebrity
coaches.

He continues to rack up honors
at the same time for his advertis-
ing photography. His food
photography for Bud Kanke’s

Cannery Restaurant Cookbook

és Greg Athans is the only person
to win gold medals in both Canada
Summer and Winter Games. 99

they finally got her.
But apparently, the bloom went
. off the rose rather quickly for the
statuesque blonde, and Sunday
morning, she abruptly turned in
_ her cellular phone, her pager and
*. her security card and said good-
“bye.
As always, bad news traveis.
quickly and this development was

-.. the talk of the industry.

. In the meantime, Suzette has

-. had further talks with Keith and
station GM Ron Bremer; their
differences have been smoothed
over and misunderstandings

- resolved, although Suzette hasn't |
decided exactly where she wants to

" be as yet...

A GREAT turn-out for the
Gréek celebration in honor of
the Vancouver: Art Gallery’s
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Rehearsals are under way for
the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre
Co.’s season-opener and the
launch of their 30th season.

And they’) do it with great
style and panache with George
Bernard Shaw’s comedy, The Mil-
lionairess. British writer, director
and Shaw expert Denise Coffey
returns from England to direct
this landmark production.

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Reprising her critically acclaim-
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It was a great turn-out to cele-
brate the launch of the Vancouver
Art Gallery’s waterfront con-
dominium lottery, sponsored by
the Canadian Hellenic Congress of
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It was a fun “Greek Night’?
celebration with special guests
Nick Panos, the president of the
Hellenic Congress; Greek vice
consul Alex Dimitropoulos; Jack
Blaney, the vice-president of SFU;
and the VAG’s top man, Willard
Holmes, all sipping and supping
on the Greek specialities like
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FRENCH HCTELIER Sucques Omnes cf West Vancouver will
take over as the new general manager of the Coast Plaza Hotel

at Stanley Park.

Also spotted Solid Gold’s Vida
Crawford and VAG PR lady
Caren Reynolds chatting with ar-
tist-pianist Raymond Chow and
CFUN news director J.J. Richards
while QM/FM’s Merk Burns
made a delightful and intelligent
emcee.

The gocd news is that they’ve
already sold 1,000 lottery
tickets!...

Lots of comings and goings in
the local hotel industry over the
pasi couple of weeks.

There is a new general manager
of the Coast Plaza Hotel at
Stanley Park. He’s the former
GM of the Coast Airport and, un-
til last week, was the vice-presi-
dent of sales and marketing for
the company.

West Van’s charming French
hotelier Jacques Omnes takes over
immediately. the position left va-
cant by departing hotel veteran
John Oram.

John has left the hotel business
to pursue other interests.

The business scoop is that Coast
Hotels executives have just hired
former North Vancouverite Bergie
Wilsun to handle Omnes’ sales
and marketing job. What a nice

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Bergie is well known in the in- .
dustry, having worked for the
Four Seasons Hotel, the Mandarin’
Hotel and Le Meridien before
leaving for the Palliser Hotel in
Calgary. .

I'm delighted that Bergie’s
returning. She’s a bright, in-
telligent and very positive person
and she's dying to get back to
North Van...

And congratulations to the big-: -
winners of the PNE’s Youth Tal-
ent Competition which was held
on the Coca-Cola Stage last week. |

‘The singing a capella quartet of
Tan Lee, Trevor Guthrie, Simon |
Gienna and Morgan Pendleton of
North Van swept the judges off
their feet with their talent and
were awarded the grand prize
miedal and $500.

They will now go down to
Memphis, Tennessee, to compete
in the National Youth Talent
Contest later this month. That’s
where they have a chance of win-
ning $5,000! Fingers crossed! ...
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