Stervinou CORPORATE ANNUAL meetings sometimes deliver the drama of takeover bids and shareholders’ revolts, and Vancouver-based Shato Holdings Ltd. could swallow most of these firms in one gulp. Its annual meeting attracted top executives from many companies, including the international brass of PepsiCo, but there could not be controversy. ‘‘We only have one sharcholder and he is com- ing,” an insider told me. Shato has 7,000 employees in North America. Its sales are greater than the Canadian reve- nues of Kelloggs’ or Coca-Cola. One estimate last year is that one person in four in North America _has consumed a product produced by a Shato subsidiary. In B.C., Shato is the White Spot (and until recently Kentucky Fried Chicken), the British Col- umbia Club and ICL Services (in- dustrial caterers). It owns Winchell Donuts in the United States, Rolling Pin Manufacturing Co. in San Fran- cisco, Gaines pet foods in Canada and several industrial food pro- duction factories: Just about every restaurant chain and catering ‘facility in Western Canada except McDonald's serves hamburger patties produced by,Shato sub- sidiary J.D. Sweid of Burnaby, and many of them use Sweid poultry: products as well. This is the world of Peter C. Tolgo, the Powell River native whose deal-making exploits have been relentless. Mercifully past the controversy that enshrouded his friendship with Bill Vander Zalm, Toigo has been putting together @ head of- fice organization to complement his own entreprencurial zest. Within the past few months, Me Ny ‘OPEN LINES Larry Bell, formerly chairman of BC Hydro and president of the tortured Westar Resources, has become chief executive officer. Dale Parker, a noted banker throughout his career, and chair- man of the Financial Institutions Commission of B.C., has become Shato’s chief financial officer. Several members of the Toigo family are active in cither their own ventures or associated activi- ties, but Peter R. Toigo (‘Peter Jr’) is a key Shato executive, Despite the enormity of the business realm, a $15,000 item was foremost in the mind of the founder at the recent annual meeting. The Louis Stervinou Memorial Award was given a fitting tribute at a banquet. Stervinou became famous in Creative ideas to beautify your home within your budget. The designer quality you've come to expect from JAROT Window Designs now has an added bonus, our lowest price - guarantee. Shop April 18th to May Ist and your purchase will f be protected. Should you find the ‘same product advertised 4 elsewhere for less, JABOFwill refund the difference. 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Nat Bailey’s- on-the-Plaza became a pivotal address at the World's Fair. The intensity of Expo and the daily parade of world leaders and eelebrities forged an amazing friendship between the brusque and burly Italian-Canadian, Pete Toigo, and Louis, a native of France's Brittany, The sudden death of Louis Stervinou in 1990 was.a shock to everyone, but it had a profound impact on Toigo. “To my dad, he was likea brother,’’ Peter Jrtofd me recent- ly. Not long after Louis’ death, it was decided to create a food sciences scholarship as a memorial to him. The provincial govern- ment said at the time it would match whatever sum was raised for the purpose. Earlier this year, Jeanie Ster- vinou, Peter Toigo Jrand Steve Melntyre (president of the White Spot) had junch with Vancouver Community College officials, and a tour of their impressive food sciences operations. Peter Toigo’s personal $15,000 donation, matched by the pro- vince, has created a $30,000 en- dowment. The interest on this will be divided into two awards each Sunday, April 18, 1993 - North Shore News - e lives on in foo year. And the Stervinou name will continue in local food circles. “There is no doubt but that at the time of his death, Lonis was the number one restaurateur in this city ... and maybe even as significant in local history as Nat Bailey was himself,** Toigo Jr. said. ‘This award solidifies who he was and it solidifies the ex- cellence he stood for,’” And this leads us to plug a superb book about another deceased prominent citizen, Dun- can Bell-irving. Harbor Publishing has produc- ed a small coffee-table hook writ- ten by Bell-Irving's daughter, West Vancouver's Elizabeth O'Wiely. It is titled Gentleman Air Ace. “tm not wild about the title,"”’ Mrs, O’ Kiely suid, ‘But they (publisher) did a good job."" Insiders know that the Seaforth Highlanders of Vancouver is a story dominated by two families: the Clarks and the Bell-Irvings (the last Colonel was a Clark, the current CO is a Bell-frving). Duncan Bell-Irving (an uncle of former Lieutenant-Governor Henry) went overseas as an infan- tryman.in the First World War, but he soon made it into the Royal Flyings Corps. He shared the fate of many Canadian heroes: his extraor- dinary feats were overshadowed by the fame of Billy Bishop. Mrs. O’Kiely’s book is a handy portrait of one of this province’s great families. Another air force book is wor- thy of a sccond mention in this space. Jourgais!: Ted Barris wrote SAVE $100.00! SONY 4Pce. 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