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Christmas fundraisers under way to help kids

IT’S BEEN a very busy week for most of the hotel GMs about town,

Joy Metcaife

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JOY TELLS ALL

At the Four Seasons VP and GM Ruy Paes-Braga, Children’s Hospital's Stephanie Southam Carlson and festival chairman Nigel Brown welcomed about 150 guests for the reception launch of their fundraising Christmas tree- lighting ceremony for the Children’s Hospital's cighth an- nual Festival of Trees.

Also met the hotel’s new PR woman Maureen Richardson, who was chatting with the generous benefactors such as executives of the Red Robin Restaurants, the Paris family and Starbucks’ Roly Morris while a brass quartet

* played wonderful Christmas music to get everyone in the mood]...

At exactly the same time GM Louis Daniel and manager Pat

« Clairmont of Le Meridien Hotel were lauaching their eighth annual Yuletide Lights of Hope to benefit the HIV Children’s Care Unit at

_ Children's Hospital with the help of the airline industry.

The entertainment was provided by the tuneful young ladies of the Noel Vocal Trio.

Kiss FM’s Dale Buote, Mary and Ashley Ford, Ecky and Sylvia

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Priebe, Kerry MePhedran, Frank Ogden and Carol Baker, Alan Daniels and Japan Airlines’ Met Seatt were all enjoying the festivities,

Great to meet Le Meridien's new PR director Judy Ahola, who began new job a month aga...

Despite the fact that the han- dreds of delegates to the 69th an- nual B.C. and Yukon Hotels Association convention were din- ing ea masse in his hotel, the dashing general manager of the Waterfront Centre Hotel, Michael Kaile, decided to skip out. But he did have a very good reason,

He wanted to celebrate his 19th wedding anniversary with his lovely wife Diana in a lovely quiet spot, far from the madding crowd where they could enjoy a superb yet romantic dinner.

The Playhouse also hosted a reception to preview some of the International Wine Festival's wines in the Timber Club of Hotel Vancouver.

Wine fest chair Kathy Swanguard introduced New Zealand Con. Gen. trvin Paulin and American consul Bill Fleming and German consul Marcel Tan- cre,

Hit of the evening was the Playhouse's very witty boss, Susan Cox, and her musical trio. The festival will take place Mar. 2, 1994, with 14 countries and 116 wineries taking part.

And for the first time, South African wines will also be on the bill...

Beaujolais Nouveau parties took place at Vintage Consultants where PR woman Diana Barkley was being serenaded by North Vancouver’s Leo Aquino while over at the Coast Plaza Mary Collins chatted with Jamie Maw and Mike Rogers and Lynn and Kerry Dix sampled the wines...

It was also a very emotional evening at Mark Armstronp’s Delta Place Hotel as the Make-

with Lynn and Kerry Dix at the International Wine

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THE SEVENTH annual Crysta! Balt attracted a glittering crowd, including Mary and Franco Iglesias

(left) and Bergie Wilson.

a-Wish Foundation celebrated its 10th anniversary.

Make-a-Wish president Rickie Wylie saluted the sponors, volun- teers and most especially, the wish families.

Some of those on hand for the celebration were WestCoin presi- dent Ted Smith, Canuck Founda- tion's George Jarvis and singer- composer Paul Jang and his pretty

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They wrote and performed a song especially for the charity called Some Hearts Reach High back in 1987...

The seventh annual Crystal Ball, a sold-out glittering affair at the Four Seasons, attracted some 350 dressy guests like John Turner and Edgar Kaiser, Vancouver mayor Philip Owen, West Van mayor Mark Sager and his pert wite

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Kathy, the Grits’ Gordon Camp- bell and his Nancy, Bob and Lily Lee, Carol Taytor and Art Phillips, Mary and Franco Ig- tesias, Bergie Wilson, Bev van Hatten, Kerry and Lynn Dix and the auctioneer, Barry Scott.

West Van's Terry Alexander won the Harley Davidson motor- cycle for $26,500, while zillionaire Peter Wail outbid everyone fora large painted giraffe. Peter paid a whopping $26,500 for the tall toy. ... Cheers!

MAKE-A-WISH president Rickie Wylie (left) with the Canuck Foundation’s George Jarvis at the Make-a-Wish foundation’s 10th

anniversary.

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