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Fanny Kiefer was nominated in the category of Communications and Public Affairs.

THE MORNINGS are “crazy’’ in the studio, says West Vancouver’s Fanny Kiefer, but it all comes together at 12 noon — the moment she goes on air as host of CBC radio’s

Kiefer has hosted the show, which concentrates on environ- ment, health and consumer issues,

Fanny Kiefer, radio show host

since Gail Hulnick went on mater- nity leave in December.

Her fill-in Almanac post is the latest in a series of broadcasting positions which include her own open-line talk show on CJOR and television work on CKVU’s Expose show.

With more and more [isteners

Alix Granger, businesswoman

Alix Granger was nominated in the category of Management and the

Professions.

ALIX GRANGER, vice-president and director of Pember- ton Sécurities, remembers during her childhood dreaming of

becoming a forest ranger.

But her father objected to her taking biology and so their com- promise was that she enrolled in economics at university.

Today she is a respected leader in. Vancouver's investment industry who has been nominated for the YWCA Women of Distinction Award.

Although her father may have steered Granger away from her first dream, she credits him with encouraging her to be an achiever.

“Anything less than an A or a First at school was the subject of great displeasure,’’ she recalls.

But perhaps it was that upbring- ing that gave her the determination to make it in a man’s world, becoming one of the first licensed portfolio managers in B.C.

**This industry is still very much dominated by men. You do the job as best you can, but it can take longer for a woman to be recognized,’’ says Granger.

Still, she encourages women to enter the field.

“Clients are not prejudiced against women if they do a good job, and it is rewarding to help people in an important aspect of their lives.”"

The fast five years have included

other

ALIX GRANGER ... vice-presi- dent and director of Pemberton Securities.

times of great success for Granger, although she has had to give up some of her past activities.

Several years ago Granger wrote a regular column for the Financial

Post and gave a daily broadcast on her industry for CJOR.

She also wrote a book entitled Don't Bank on it, and co-authored a book on financial management for non-profit socicties.

In 1987 she was appointed by the Prime Minister to the Econom- ic Council of Canada as chairman of the council’s Advisory Commit- tee on International Finance.

The committee’s report, now coniplete, was recently profiled in the Globe and Mail.

“We have been looking at where the Canadian financial industry has prospered or failed to prosper in light of the tremendous interna- tionalization of markets....What we've found is that Canada has fallen back and become less com- petitive,” concludes Granger.

She is also busy as the current chairperson of the Pacific District of the Investment Dealers Associa- tion of Canada and a director of the Canadian Institute of Financial Planning.

Despite the more exciting finan- cial picture back cast, Granger has no plans to leave her home in West Vancouver, which she has shared with her husband and daughter for about 20 years.

Spare time, as rare as it is for Granger, is spent on her favorite hobbies, kayaking and photography or volunteering with the United Way and the Vancouver YWCA.

Joy Metcalfe, columnist

Joy Metcalfe was nominated in the category of Communications and

Public Affairs.

IN THE media world of hard-core competition for a story,

“My whole being is the word ‘scoop,’”?. she emphasized at a re- cent interview. ‘‘I take great pride in being the first one with the news.”” ‘

Metcalfe writes a social and business — some would call it gossip -— column for the Van- couver Courier, Richmond Review, and the West Vancouver Villager.

She is also a twice-daily con-

“tributor — at 8:35 a.m. and 4:45

p.m. — on. CKNW, where her morning spot boasts 100,000

. listeners.

Metcalfe has | scooped . other

media on such items as marriages .

of well-known locals, celebrity ar- tivals in Vancouver, and proposed business deals. . : But to be the first with the news necessitates a demanding social

: schedule.

‘columnist Joy Metcalfe is a front-runner.

JOY METCALFE ... well-known columnist and radio personality.

On the day of her interview with the Villager, Metcalfe — who doesn’t drive a car — had five dif- ferent evening engagements.

The next day, she was going out for lunch, then judging the Sea Festival poster. contest, opening Seasons restaurant in the after- noon, opening Cafe Splash for dinner and- attending the cocktail party launch of the Vancouver Opera’s Night of 1,001 Dinners.

Items for her columns are also gleaned through an intricate net- work of “‘spies,’’? who have proven very reliable over the years. “‘I have said I will go to jai) rather than reveal my sources,’’ Metcalfe noted.

While getting a good scoop is one of Metcalfe’s: primary goals, another main objective is to pro- vide an alternative to the ‘‘doom and gloom”’ often found in the rest of the news.

‘I'm after the good part of the news ... whatever it is,’’ she said.

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tuning in to the environment issues of the day, Kiefer says she gets a “good response from all over the province” during the open-line hour of the program.

“It’s a sexy issue. rigkt now,” she said. “By covering the en- vironment, we are covering most of the major stories.””

But while she enjoys her role as a. current affairs program host, she aimits it has its challenges: ‘It’s a job that doesn’t go away,’’ she suid. ‘‘To keep current takes a tremendous amount of research if you don’t want to make a fool of yourself.’* .

’ Her job clso brings with it a vcananding social schedule, mean-

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ing that she can’t spend as much time skiing, playing golf or tennis as she would perhaps like.

And as a single parent of two teenagers, she often arrives home after a long day’s work just in time to ‘‘put out all the fires that started during the day.””

Work aside, however, Kiefer and her family enjoy strolling own at the seawalk, and dining

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seys she would like to do more television work, perhaps on a leading-edge health show, but says she enjoys radio and will always be able to do it when she’s “‘old and

“(On the radio), no one cares if you have the perfect hair or perfect nose,”’ she laughed.

Kiefer donates her time to a number of charitable activities, such as the Variety Club telethon, and local residents may have seen her at the North Shore Counselling Centre auction or acting as MC at the North Shore Family Services Winter Ball.

THE CORPORATION OF THE DISTRICT OF WEST VANCOUVER

Barbara Brink Alix Granger Fanny Kiefer Judi Korbin Joy Metcalfe Ann Sturrock

On behalf of the Council and Citizens of West Vancouver, I would like to extend Congratula- tions on your successes and for being nominated for the Women of Distinction Awards.

DAS. Lanskail, Mayor .. :