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YES, INDEED that was Nancy Greene Raine stand- ing in fine and paying for her own hamburger at the Whistler Lions Club volun- teer’s stand in Whistler Village last Saturday.

. She was one of hundreds of people who bought burgers and hot dogs to support the new Whistler Health Care Centre’s capital cam- paign. This past weekend’s event that marked the start of construc- tion of the Whistler Village Centre. Whistler Village Centre is a $40 million development that includes retail, recreation and condominium elements. It’s being developed by West Van’s Larco Investments. Larco celebrated getting approval of their development and building permits by announcing a pledge of $25,000 to the Health Care Centre. It was the Larco company which also undertook the costs for musi- cians, food and soft drinks for the. barbecue that was organized by the Whistler Lions, Others at the party included the Mayor of Whistler, Ted Nebbliag, the President of the Whistler Lions, David DeKraker, Lorne Hildebrand and Debbie O'Mara of Whistler Health Care . and project manager Gary

’. Murray. Nancy, the former Olympic ski champion, who can proudly boast that she has now bro- ker 100 on the golf course, is the co-chair of the campaign along with developer, West Van.’s Jolin Evans...

Elegant clothier Troy Straith _ and his wife, Giza of Straiths in the lobby of the Hotel Vancouver are just back from a whirl-wind tour of the fashion capitals of the world including Saltzburg, Diisseldorf, Frankfurt, New York, Montreal, Las Vegas and Beverly Hills. Tony reports that next fall, we'll see slimmer lines in pants for day wear -and lots of chiffon for evening wear. Skirts will be short, skinny pants will be worn under % length blazers, there’ll be lots of riding jackets and colorful crushed vel- veteens for evening events. Colors

to look for this fall are burgundy, loden green, tweedy shades and brown is back ina big way!

The fashion news doesn ‘t say anything about tartans but certainly The Plaids are here to stay for quite a while. That's as in the musical production, Forever Plaid, which opened officially on May 19 at the Starlight Theatre. The evening before the official opening, zillion- aire Peter Thomas hosted a fund- raising affair at Forever Plaid asa fundraiser for the Kids Help Line. The four Plaids — Robert Miller, Neil Nash, Kevin Scott Markle and Eddie Glen are in fine form, especially after they had their ears lowered @ /a the 1950s hair styles at Miracles on Denman...The gala opening after-party was hosted at the Pacific Palisades Hotel on Robson by General Manager Stephen Darling and the cham- pagne flowed like water. The place was packed with more than 400 happy first-nigkters who couldn't stop congratulating the hit musi- cal’s three daring entrepreneurs, producers Jeffrey Latimer, Lawrence Follows and West Van.’s Tina VanderHayden. As they say, the town’s “glad to be plaid!”...

Business news of note is that Pauline Buck is leaving her posi- tion as Vice President of Miller and Leonard Public Relations. The Miller in that title is West Van’s Dean of PR, Dean Miller while the Leonard is John Leenard of North Van who was very much behind the very successful NABS gala evening al the North Shore Film Studios last Saturday night. Pauline now plans to work as an indepen- dent PR consultant from her new home office in downtown Vancouver...

Someone else who’s making a major change in his life is jovial Jef€ Snowball. Jeff and his charm- ing wife, Mary Snowball, have been the founders, managers and sparkplugs, behind the Vancouver Media Club for the past 12 years. Personally, ! can’t believe that these two high-level individuals have had the club operating that long. How time flies! Last Friday evening there was a giant farewell and thank you party for the Snowball’s with all the original and current members attending. It was a wonderful tribute to these two people who are going to be leaving their home on the Capilano River to retire to live a life of ease and relaxation on Gabriola Island at the end of the month. I want to wish both Mary and Jeff Snowball the very best! They’re really good people ... Cheers!

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Photos Joy Metcalfe

CLOCKWISE FROM top right: At the National Advertising Benevolent Society grand ball were CISL’s Red Robinson, Justin Hanley of Marketing Magazine, and NABS’ Tom

Peacock, John Leonard and Tom Haibeck.

Media club founders and managers Geoff and Mary Snowball

are leaving the North Shore.

Forever Pizid producers Tina Vander Hayden, Jeffrey Latimer and Lawrence Follows attended the party at the Pacific

Palisades Hotel.

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