42 - Sunday, October 31, 1999 — North Shore News
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Moke) BRIGHT LIGHTS 2e0
audate benefit raised spirits and money

LAUDATE Singers was tounded in 1995 under the direction of
anio and hay fist built a reputation Ghat has spread trem the

r Mainiand as far as Europe. Lazare is Latin for praise, and

the name had its genesis in work that embodied the need to
praise or celebrate lite, it could equally sum up the reaction that
the 24-voice ensembic has garnered wherever it has pertormed.
Tuesday night the casemble cast a spell over guests at the Capilano

Golf and Country Clab,
included a splendid dinn

The occasion was a findraiser that
4 silent auction and a raffle. [It was a

fabulous evening that nerted Laudate $21,000 — a huge suc

UBC Chanceller Bob Lee and his wife Lily were in atten-
dance. Lily went home with a lovely ceramic urn contain-
ing a white and purple orchid she bought in the silent
auction.

Bright Light's dinner companions Eric and Leslie
Turcotte were two of the more active participants in the
silent auction.

Laudate Singer's Diane Kindree (boitom left) was
pleased to weicome Lori McDowell (counter-clockwise),
Kerstin Loesch, and major sponsors (of the next CD)
Shafiq Nazerali of ZMax Capita! Corp., Victor J.
O'Conner of the law firm McCullough, O' Connor, Irwin
and John Thompsan of Union Securities.

Clubhouse manager
Horst Plaster summoned
the guests to dinner with a
winning smile and a polite
hand bell.

danet Najendie iocked
oleased with the instant
addition to her family she
bought in the auction.

NEWS photos Martin tillerchip

There was just no room to fit in all of Laudate Singers, so Ana Peh (from left), Mark De
Silva, Alex Good, Brenda Blakely, Darren Mahe, Andrea Bajo and artistic director
and composer Lars Kaario represented all of those wonderful voices.

Board member Irene
Leviton and Laudate
Singers’ publicist Anne
Kaarto do a lot of work for
the organization behind
the scenes.

Sandy and Terry
Sklavenitis of Giorgio’s
Men's Wear donated the
wool blazer in the back-
ground to the silent auc-
tion.

Inaugura! Laudate. mem-
bars Ingrid Faik. (left) and
Susan Larkin were
patiently waiting to wel-
come tate arrivals. ~-

West Vancouver Foundation’s Tom Bailiie had some fun
posing with his “harem*: (irom ight) Jeri Krogseth,
Judy Baillie and Vat Wieczorek.

Proud Laudate board members were; (from left) presi- -
dent John Mingay, vice president Disne Kindzee aid
doard member and Capilano Golf Club president Hans
Kreutzer.

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