Joy
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JOY TELLS ALL

THIS HAS to be one of the
most exciting times in the
life of our very own super
rocker, Bryan Adams, who
has just been nominated for
an Oscar.

His nomination for an
Academy Award is for his hit
song, Everything I Do (I Do It
For You) in the category called
Best Achievement in Music for an
Original Song.

The Oscars will be hosted by

BRYAN ADAMS will perform

his Oscar-nominated song dur-
ing the Academy Awards cer-
emony on March 30.

funnyman Billy Crystal, and takes
place in Los Angeles on March
30.

Bryan has already been
nominated for six Grammies (the
American music awards show
which takes place Tuesday night),
and for seven Junos which will be
presented on March 29 on the day
before the Oscars.

The rest of the news is that
Bryan will not only be there, he'll
perform his award-winning song
from the movie, Robin Hoad
Prince of Thieves...

Recent business news is that a
fairly new-to-the-market health
food snack has snagged one of
Canada’s heroes for endorsement
of the product.

Nutty Fruit Health snack bars
say they have low calories, are
additive-free, taste good, and are
good for you. They're made right
here locally!

Somone who was also made
here locally is the soccer world’s
Bobby Leonarduzzi, the ‘“‘Mr.
Clean”’ of pro sports. Bobby is a
perfect role model for today’s kids
and he’s put his endorsement on
this product and will act as the
spokesman. The snack food, like
Bobby, is good, healthy and natu-
ral — and a little nutty!

Sounds like a perfect pairing.
With those great teeth, I think
Bobby could also sel!
toothpaste!...

If you happened to watch
CBC-TV’s Evening News early
last week and saw reporter Alyn
Edwards’ story about Lorie Hud-
son, there is a North Shore con-
nection.

Lorie is a former exotic dancer
who was caught in a drug deal in
South America and spent 414
years in a Peruvian prison. A
good part of the story’s research
tapes came from the files of West
Van filmmaker, Gary Payne.

Gary met Lorie some time ago
and has acquired the movie rights
to her story. He’s already been
talking to several interested movie
companies, including Tri-Star,
about doing a TV movie called
Sin For A Season.

Gary’s just back from Calgary
where they premiered his award-

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TONY PARSONS... one of the
Wall Centre arts display
judges.

winning film, Kootenai Brown
during the Canadian Film Cele-
bration. Kootenai Brown was an
Alberta folk hero. Ticket sales
were so good that the premiere
has had to be moved to a much
larger theatre! Reviews were ex-
cellent.

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Last Tuesday morning was the
official unveiling of the Wall Cen-
tre’s community, charity, and arts
display hoarding and ground-
breaking for their massive devel-
opment at 1000-block of Burrard.

Some months ago, Peter Wall,
with a good deal of creative
assistance from Brian Calder, of-
fered signage space on the hoar-
ding, which surrounds the build-
ing project to non-profit,
charitable groups.

ECTV’s Tony Parsons, The
Sun’s fan Haysom and | were ap-
peinted as judges to peruse and
choose from the hundreds of
submissions. The first 22 eight-
by-eight signs are now up, thanks
to General Paint and Griff Build-
ing Supplies.

Special guests that morning

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were Premier Michael Harcourt,
federal Justice Minister Kim
Campbell and Mayor Gordon
Campbell.

Of particular note is the fact
that DERA (Downtown Eastside
Residents’ Association) had famed
artist Robin Ward volunteer to lay
out their sign with 11 students
from Strathcona School painting

it.

The Make-A-Wish Foundation
signage was done by the very
popular artist, Joe Average.

Both artists were also at the
unveiling along with about
another 300 shivering guests in-
cluding architects Gerald
Hamilton and Bruno Freschi,
West Van’s Bob Lee and
Hildegarde and Toni Cavelti.

Toni was just awarded one of
the City of Vancouver's Heritage
Awards in recognition of the res-
toration and adaptive reuse of his
Randall Building at 555 West
Georgia.

Wall Financial's new building
project includes an office tower,
apartments, retail shops and
businesses and a 350-room hotel.
It is worth a very cool $250 mil-
lion! No wonder they even had
fireworks...

And congratulations go out to
the new president of the Real
Estate Board of Greater Van-
couver, Satnam Sidhu, manager
of the Royal LePage offices in
North Van.

He was elected Tuesday night at
the 73rd annual meeting at the
Hotel Vancouver. The Real Estate
Board’s charity is the Multiple
Sclerosis Society.

Over the past 14 years, they
have managed to raise $1.4 mil-
lion for the society.

It was the retiring president of
the board, Rosemary Barnes, who
presented a welcome cheque to
Multiple Sclerosis Society VP,
Bob Tulk. The checue was worth
$102,059.67... Cheers!

SATNAM SIDHU... new presi-
dent of the Real Estate Board
of Greater Vancouver.

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