Symphony of Fire wraps up this wee SOME OF my super-sneaky spies were guests at a sur- prise wedding last Friday. It turns out that these were the nuptials of the president of Palmer Jarvis Advertising, that roly-poly ad man, Frank Palmer. JOY TELLS ALL ‘Frank tied the knot with his *, lovely Marika in a very quiet wed- ding ceremony on Vancouver _ Island. - They’re not able to 20 off ona honeymoon right now because it’s too busy in the ad world. Marika _is supposed to be very beautiful ‘and very intelligent! This definitely raises the question, how does he do it? This wedding will be a surprise for the guests Frank has invited to his new home party in West Vancouver next Saturday night when he’ll introduce the new. Mrs, P... . Benson and Hedges’ PR man from Toronto Doug MacPherson ‘and his wife Sally hosted an ele- ‘gant dinner.party for the sponsors '. and special guests last Sunday — evening to officially kick off this -isimmer’s ‘‘Symphony of Fire’ pyrotechnical extravaganza. «The dinner party was held in the ‘Katharine Hepburn suite at the RoseEllen apartments in the West End. BCTV producer Michzel -Mead of ‘‘The Performers’ was ‘on hand, as were Peter and Lori Enright. from Benson & Hedges, ‘Peggy and Bob Foster of the Ramada Renaissance, Steplianic and Raymond Greenwood of fireworks fame, and James and Julie Prescott. Julie’s the publicist, for Benson & Hedges and James is publicist for the revitalized Vogue theatre. Lori Clarke, Beth Layton and Bill Nelson were there from CKNW, while Judy Dahl was there from the Sun. The fourth annual fireworks competition began on July 31 with . Italy front and centre, followed by » France on Aug..4 and Canada last night. The culmination of this year’s _ competition will be the three countries participating in the grand finale on Wednesday, Aug. !1. The weather couldn't have been better last Sunday for Ann and Laurie Frisby’s third annual gathering of the Hidhurst Cro- quet, Pimm’s, Swimming and Bermuda Rum Swizzle Society at their beautiful British Properties home. They had more than 100 guests, Susan and Ron Whittaker and Ginny and Des Barrett among them, playing croquet at their spacious estate. The game, of course, is the party, accompanied by the musical beat of Ashley Luckey and his Steel Drum Band. One of the many guests taking up a mallet was one heck of a- golfer, Mel Zajac and his favorite lady golfer, Wendy Brain. Mel had just returned from a visit to the home of another well-known golf. fanatic, Bob Hope. Mel and Wendy were there for the many parties celebrating Bob’s 90th birthday. ‘Apparently Bob Hope has re- covered well frorn the recent shoulder injury he suffered during a fall and he’ll be off to Ireland in a few days!... It was definitely a party crowd last week as the heads of the Spectra Food Group, Peter Son- ner and Wayne Hoims, launched . their latest Milestones Restaurant on Robson. Milestones is in the former iocatinn of Milieu and Splendido and is the fifth Milestones in the chair. Peter and Wayne are top pro- fessionals in the restaurant in- dustry and have had such success with their other operations like the English Bay Cafe, the Bread Gardens and the Boathouses, that you can just see what a winner this new place will be. Lots of party people were on hand like Charles Campbell, the editor of the Georgia Strwight, PR man Dune Holmes and his ’ daughters Jennifer and Tracey, Peter Ladner of Business in Van- couver, B.C. Lions stars Ray Smith and Lui Passaglia, Kilbey and Gerdon Gibson, concierges _ Charlene Rose and Diane Dillon, as well as NW’s Barb Welsh, - Sherry Henshall, and Rick and Gale Hongy. BCTV’s Barry Houlihan, in SPECTRA PRESIDENT Peter Bonner | Photos submitted MORE THAN 100 guests turned up at Laurie (centre) and Ann (right) Frisby’s British Properties gathering, including Susan Whittaker (left) and her husband Ron. BENSON & HEDGES PR man Doug MacPherson (left), Vogue theatre publicist James Prescott, BCTV producer Michael Mead and fireworks man Raymond Greenwood gathered to kick off the Sym- phony of? Fire. tight pants, was kept very busy televising the proceedings. I cer- tainly didn’t notice whether his trousers were snug or not but a couple of more observant females certainly did! 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