December 31; 1980. |

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MOM’‘S NIGHT OUT

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The magic hour of midnight is nigh and three
luxurious limousines pull up In front of Viva’'s.

Several young swingers strolling out of the classy

rendezous are in

trigued by the six stylish young

men and 10 fashionable, though obviously older,
women who emerge from the chauffeured

vehicles.

“Those women must have
moncy,” scoffs one cynical
sophisticate.

Not quite. What these 10
women do have is six sons or
sons-in-law who decided that
Moms’ Day in May is in-
sufficient’ reward for. the
ladies who loved them all
their lives.

The six men, all from
West Vancouver and all in
ther mid-30s. have beeen
Inends since they were
(cenagers. So have their
wives “We thihk of our-

selves as the dirty dozen,”
said Susan Ogden, once of the
six wives who stayed home

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that night.

Nor are the moms and
moms-in-law strangers to
one another or to any of
their six escorts. “The boys
are all like our sons,” said
Don Ogden’s” mother,
Yvonne. “If our own sons
weren't around, we could
turn to any one of the others
ina (ime of need.”

The idea germinated when
four of the men and their
wives were dining at The
Mansion on Davie Street and
they got tg reminiscing
about one of the fathers who
had passed away.

“We decided,” Bill

north shore

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McEachnie explained, “that
life is so short, we'd like to
do something for our
mothers.”

It would be a surpfise,
they’d split the entire bill six
ways — and the sky was the
proverbial limit. Two wecks
later, two moms were flown
out from Toronto, one from
Kamloops and the stage was
set for what was to be one of
the best nights the 16 had
ever spent. ~

Clad in “their finest and
prinked with the corsage
each received, the mothers
were ready when the limos
arrived. “That was the first
surprise,” said Yvonne
Ogden. “We knew we were
going out and that we'd be
picked up but that was all
We had no idea where we
were going.”

First stop was The
Mansion -—~ where none of
the ladies. had ever been

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It’s a whole different evening

By CAROLE STAFFORD

before. “We had our own
room, the tables were set
beautifully with a gardenia at
every mother’s place — and
what mother doesn't want a
gardenia!

“All the mothers were on a
high — everybody was up,”
Yvonne continued. “And all
the ‘mothers looked lovely
that night; it wasn’t what we
wore so much as how we felt
— radiant.”

The wine was flowing and
the food was ‘good, though
Yvonne can't remember
what she ate. “I think they
could have = served us
sauerkraut and weiners and
we'd have enjoyed it. We
were so excited ['m not sure
we even tasted what we were

eating.”

“It was oan emotional
night,” recalled Bill
McEaghnie They had

reminisced and shared a lot

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