GREAT TURNOUT Wednesday evening at south side of Park Royal Shopping Centre in West Van.

This was the festive “Evening of Fabulous Food and Fashions.”

Ithink the thing that struck me most as | wandered by the stalls and displays of tasty tidbits and select wines was that it was such a genicel, civilized soiree, well theught-out and very well orga- nized, as well as being a pleasant family affair.

Mingling among the guests was the attractive owner of Heather ingtons, Sandi Graham, who supplied the classic fashions for women and orchestrated the fashion show which also featured Dunn's Tailors and the baby shop Welcome To The World, a place of great interest for new mothers Wendy Lisogar-Cocchia and Kathy Sager, wife of West Van mayor Mark Sager.

Pivotal in making the event a fundraising success for the North Shore Family Services were five locai wineries and 16 leading. North Shore restaurants.

One of those helping to make the whole area look so attractive on Wednesday night was Pat Rekert of the ‘‘In Any Event”’ company, with creative designs for any occasion.

Pat does a jot of corporate and film work and is very involved in TV and movies. She also just lhappens to be married to the star of the television series Neon Rider, the dimpled Winston Rekert.

Anne Eliot, Susan Evans and Ariene Gladsione should feel very satisfied!

It was a lovely, though breezy, garden party Thursday afternoon, hosted by the gracious general manager, Stephen Darling, in the gardens of his Pacific Palisades Hotel. .

We started the festive affair in the reoftop herb garden where chef Aune Milne displayed her thriving herb gardens along with the freshest tomatoes and cucum- bers before moving down to the courtyard for a sumptuous barbecue.

For me the highlight of the menu were Anne’s crab cakes and corn relish. Just excellent!

Now it turns out that we were just a breath away from two pairs of extremely well-known newlyw- ‘eds who also happen to be top-_ drawer Hollywood stars.

The brush-cutted, tough-guy actor who had a change of pace as

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Sunday, September 20,

COCKTAILS & CAVIAR

Peppi’s Restaurant on the Dun- darave waterfront in West Van, the Verdicchio’s are alive and well and opening again!

This time around it won’t in- volve Joe and Alfredo and it won't be in West Van.

The new owners will be Franco and his wife Sharon, who just hosted a quict, soft opening of their new Italian restaurant on 4th Avenue in Vancouver.

It’s in the old Grapevine’s Res- taurant location and which they’re calling, quite naturally, ‘‘Verdic- chio’s’’

Joy Metcalfe

: e s Best wishes to Helene Zupan, a 20-year-old blonde accountant with Atlas Interiors of Surrey, who was the happy winner of Monday night’s Miss South Western National Pageant at the

JOY TELLS ALL

NEWS photo Cindy Goodman GRACIOUS HOSTS at a recent media garden party were Stephen Darling (left), general manager of the Pacific Palisades and Kathy Graves, the hotel's director of safes.

Centennial Theatre. There were an original 51 en- tries whittled down to 12 finalists. Helene wins a $5,000 scholar- ship to the N.I.A. acting and modelling school, a $3,000 schol- arship to the Columbia Academy of Broadcasting, denim fashions, crystal dishes, photographs and Fitness World prizes.

She'll also represent Canada in the Miss Frontier International

the star of the TV series The A- Team, George Peppard, has been in town for the past while, bed- ding down at the Palisades with his new bride of one week.

They departed with fond farewells early Wednesday morn- ing ... At the very same time and at the very same hotel, ac- tor-director Martin Sheen was en-

honeymoon with his relatively new wife.

Martin also managed to slip in some location scouting for a new film, some of which he hopes to do on the North Shore!

1 understand that the crab cakes were also a favorite of George Peppard’s!...

eee After 26 years of operating

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MEWS photo Mike Wakefieid

FRANCO AND Sharon ‘Verdicchio are now serving up italian

cuisine in a Vancouver location.

Pageant in Mexico in July of 1993. Sharon Ramditti of Coquitlam, a 22-year-old paralegal, was the _runner-up, while 18-year-old

' Tammy Widner of Courtney was

chosen as Miss Personality...

And congratulations, too, this morning to that deceptively youthful advertising agency execu- tive, Rob Whittle of West Van.

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ATTENDING THE annual indy party were Fran and Emerson Short appearing here with entertainer Juliette (right).

PALMER JARVIS president Frank Paimer (left) recently unveiled 4 new company logo 2s weil as announcing seme promotions and a four-month coniract with creative consultant Ron Woodail.

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