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FANNY KIEFER ... hosts CBC’s
Almanac show at 12 noon.

Fanny Kiefer was nominated in
the category of Communications
and Public Affairs.

THE MORNINGS are
“crazy’’ in the studio, says
West Vancouver’s Fanny
Kiefer, but it all comes
together at 12 noon — the
moment she goes on air as
host of CBC radio’s

Kiefer has hosted the show,
which concentrates on environ-
ment, health and consumer issues,

Fanny Kiefer,
radio show host

since Gail Hulnick went on mater-
nity leave in December.

Her fill-in Almanac post is the
latest in a series of broadcasting
positions which include her own
open-line talk show on CJOR and
television work on CKVU’s Expose
show.

With more and more [isteners

Alix Granger, businesswoman

Alix Granger was nominated in the category of Management and the

Professions.

ALIX GRANGER, vice-president and director of Pember-
ton Sécurities, remembers during her childhood dreaming of

becoming a forest ranger.

But her father objected to her
taking biology and so their com-
promise was that she enrolled in
economics at university.

Today she is a respected leader
in. Vancouver's investment industry
who has been nominated for the
YWCA Women of Distinction
Award.

Although her father may have
steered Granger away from her
first dream, she credits him with
encouraging her to be an achiever.

“Anything less than an A or a
First at school was the subject of
great displeasure,’’ she recalls.

But perhaps it was that upbring-
ing that gave her the determination
to make it in a man’s world,
becoming one of the first licensed
portfolio managers in B.C.

**This industry is still very much
dominated by men. You do the job
as best you can, but it can take
longer for a woman to be
recognized,’’ says Granger.

Still, she encourages
women to enter the field.

“Clients are not prejudiced
against women if they do a good
job, and it is rewarding to help
people in an important aspect of
their lives.”"

The fast five years have included

other

ALIX GRANGER ... vice-presi-
dent and director of Pemberton
Securities.

times of great success for Granger,
although she has had to give up
some of her past activities.

Several years ago Granger wrote
a regular column for the Financial

Post and gave a daily broadcast on
her industry for CJOR.

She also wrote a book entitled
Don't Bank on it, and co-authored
a book on financial management
for non-profit socicties.

In 1987 she was appointed by
the Prime Minister to the Econom-
ic Council of Canada as chairman
of the council’s Advisory Commit-
tee on International Finance.

The committee’s report, now
coniplete, was recently profiled in
the Globe and Mail.

“We have been looking at where
the Canadian financial industry
has prospered or failed to prosper
in light of the tremendous interna-
tionalization of markets....What
we've found is that Canada has
fallen back and become less com-
petitive,” concludes Granger.

She is also busy as the current
chairperson of the Pacific District
of the Investment Dealers Associa-
tion of Canada and a director of
the Canadian Institute of Financial
Planning.

Despite the more exciting finan-
cial picture back cast, Granger has
no plans to leave her home in West
Vancouver, which she has shared
with her husband and daughter for
about 20 years.

Spare time, as rare as it is for
Granger, is spent on her favorite
hobbies, kayaking and
photography or volunteering with
the United Way and the Vancouver
YWCA.

Joy Metcalfe, columnist

Joy Metcalfe was nominated in the category of Communications and

Public Affairs.

IN THE media world of hard-core competition for a story,

“My whole being is the word
‘scoop,’”?. she emphasized at a re-
cent interview. ‘‘I take great pride
in being the first one with the
news.”” ‘

Metcalfe writes a social and
business — some would call it
gossip -— column for the Van-
couver Courier, Richmond
Review, and the West Vancouver
Villager.

She is also a twice-daily con-

“tributor — at 8:35 a.m. and 4:45

p.m. — on. CKNW, where her
morning spot boasts 100,000

. listeners.

Metcalfe has | scooped . other

media on such items as marriages .

of well-known locals, celebrity ar-
tivals in Vancouver, and proposed
business deals. . :
But to be the first with the news
necessitates a demanding social

: schedule.

‘columnist Joy Metcalfe is a front-runner.

JOY METCALFE ... well-known
columnist and radio personality.

On the day of her interview with
the Villager, Metcalfe — who
doesn’t drive a car — had five dif-
ferent evening engagements.

The next day, she was going out
for lunch, then judging the Sea
Festival poster. contest, opening
Seasons restaurant in the after-
noon, opening Cafe Splash for
dinner and- attending the cocktail
party launch of the Vancouver
Opera’s Night of 1,001 Dinners.

Items for her columns are also
gleaned through an intricate net-
work of “‘spies,’’? who have proven
very reliable over the years. “‘I
have said I will go to jai) rather
than reveal my sources,’’ Metcalfe
noted.

While getting a good scoop is
one of Metcalfe’s: primary goals,
another main objective is to pro-
vide an alternative to the ‘‘doom
and gloom”’ often found in the rest
of the news.

‘I'm after the good part of the
news ... whatever it is,’’ she said.

See Metcalfe
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tuning in to the environment issues
of the day, Kiefer says she gets a
“good response from all over the
province” during the open-line
hour of the program.

“It’s a sexy issue. rigkt now,”
she said. “By covering the en-
vironment, we are covering most
of the major stories.””

But while she enjoys her role as
a. current affairs program host, she
aimits it has its challenges: ‘It’s a
job that doesn’t go away,’’ she
suid. ‘‘To keep current takes a
tremendous amount of research if
you don’t want to make a fool of
yourself.’* .

’ Her job clso brings with it a
vcananding social schedule, mean-

Distinctive women garner honors

ing that she can’t spend as much
time skiing, playing golf or tennis
as she would perhaps like.

And as a single parent of two
teenagers, she often arrives home
after a long day’s work just in time
to ‘‘put out all the fires that
started during the day.””

Work aside, however, Kiefer
and her family enjoy strolling
own at the seawalk, and dining

*. O1 “Vist Vancouver is another
yawn os. Vity.

~bity tute her future, Kiefer

seys she would like to do more
television work, perhaps on a
leading-edge health show, but says
she enjoys radio and will always be
able to do it when she’s “‘old and

“(On the radio), no one cares if
you have the perfect hair or perfect
nose,”’ she laughed.

Kiefer donates her time to a
number of charitable activities,
such as the Variety Club telethon,
and local residents may have seen
her at the North Shore Counselling
Centre auction or acting as MC at
the North Shore Family Services
Winter Ball.

THE CORPORATION OF THE
DISTRICT OF WEST VANCOUVER

Barbara Brink
Alix Granger
Fanny Kiefer
Judi Korbin
Joy Metcalfe
Ann Sturrock

On behalf of the Council and
Citizens of West Vancouver, I
would like to extend Congratula-
tions on your successes and for
being nominated for the Women
of Distinction Awards.

DAS. Lanskail,
Mayor .. :