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Town Talk: Artists' gifts make million for gallery
Vancouver Art Gallery director Kathleen Bartels and art auction co-chair Hank Bull prepared for the event to raise a reported $1.2 million. The Guardian Whale triptych Trace Yeomans donated to the VAG...
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Town Talk: All calm on the Opera front at annual gala
Six-year Vancouver Opera board member Julia Kim feted James Wright who will retire after 17 years as the company’s general director. WRIGHT FROM WRONG: Chaired by Cindy Richmond and Chantelle Wong,...
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Town Talk: Book recounts triumph over two mutually aggressive diseases
CASE CLOSED: Corporate executive-turned-management consultant Kathy McLaughlin wasn’t quite 40 when her trials began. Nor were they the kind twin Carol Baird Ellan handled as chief provincial court...
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Town Talk: Frances and Sam Belzberg receive SFU President's Award
Frances and Samuel Belzberg received Simon Fraser University’s President’s Distinguished Community Leadership Award this week. Former chancellor Morris Wosk and fellow benefactor Jack Diamond, seen in...
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Town Talk: Reborn Aston Martin stars at All British Field Meet
WAY, WAY TO GO: Answering fellow Briton Petula Clark’s pop-song song, John Fairclough does know the road to San Jose. He followed it in 1985 to acquire “the bits” of a 1934 Aston Martin Mark II Ulster...
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Town Talk: Pamela Anderson In The Buff Benefits Beauty Night
Beauty Night benefit participants Mana Erfani and Kiana Sandres made their relationship as mother and daughter difficult to discern. BEYOND BAYWATCH: Not everyone lounges in a pool wearing only Jimmy...
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Town Talk: Mel Zajac stays up to help knocked-down kids
SHOW AND MEL: The scene turned upside-down for 600 guests arriving at a recent Terminal City Club event that benefited the Zajac Ranch for Children. That’s because their first glasses of wine were...
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Town Talk: Vancouver polo players finally get a full field
CHUKKER TIME: During his 15 years in England, investment-biz chap Tony Tornquist acquired wife Claudia and a consuming passion. They both did. It was polo, a sport played on 30 fields near their London...
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TOWN TALK: Pamela Anderson takes the dive from Baywatch into her own wine
Parkes is reminded of his wife of 17 years Christie by her mermaid tattoo on his forearm.PAM DOES PINK: Ladysmith-born actress Pamela Anderson launched a self-named wine at Yaletown’s West Oak...
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Town Talk: Fancy hats and frocks at a different Hastings Racecourse party
YOU BET: Hastings Racecourse regulars are accustomed to the Deighton Cup party (July 16 this year) bringing snappy chappies and snugly dressed young women out for a sunny afternoon with the gee-gees....
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Town Talk: Warship the star of Fourth of July celebration in Vancouver
DOODLE DANDY U.S. Consul General Lynne Platt’s Fourth of July party was actually held on the fifth. That allowed guests to celebrate alongside and aboard USS Gridley at North Vancouver’s Burrard Dry...
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Town Talk: Ryan and Cindy Beedie and Huey Lewis entertain 3,000 at Malkin Bowl
ROCK ON: The Beedie Development Group reached billion-dollar status after adopting California’s “tilt-up” wall technique for erecting commercial buildings. As for raising the roof, company founder...
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Town Talk: Deighton Cup brought out the spiffy and the sunshine
DEIGHTON DAY: Promoters Dax Droski, Jordan Kallman and Tyson Villeneuve’s lucky streak seemed to be over when rain threatened their eighth annual Deighton Cup event at Hastings Racecourse recently. It...
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Town Talk: Pride presenting sponsor TD Bank commits to three more years
PRIDE INSIDE: TD Bank Group senior VP Mauro Manzi got his usual jump on Pride celebrations by hosting a week-before reception at Celebrities nightclub. As Pride’s six-year presenting sponsor, the bank...
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Town Talk: Folk who pleased us in Augusts past
Pride’s rainbow has faded for another year. The Honda Celebration of Light? Flash, bang, sayonara. B.C. Day? Back to work everybody, or hit the road in hopes of finding a campsite. But most of August...
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Town Talk: Polo fans find food, drink, cars, homes and romance
HEAVEN’S ABOVE: When naming an enterprise further up Main Street, Rachel Zottenberg could have cribbed the MainStreet group’s song, My Main Girl. Instead, the co-owner of the Emerald, Narrow and Uncle...
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Town Talk: Cypress Challenge ride tops $2 million for pancreatic cancer
Cyndi Ankenman greeted Myriam Glotman at a reception for the Cypress Challenge that has raised $2 million to help fight pancreatic cancer. KEEP GOING: Betty Ergas’s death to pancreatic cancer resulted...
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Town Talk: Christ Church Cathedral bells commemorate Jack Poole
CHIME TIME: Christ Church Cathedral dean Peter Elliott took bronze recently. Almost five tonnes of it, in fact, in the form of four bells from the family-owned Paccard Bell Foundry in Annecy, France....
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Town Talk: Fishing hooks $820,000 for autistic kids
NET GAIN: Past and present hockey players and front-office types attended a Fishing for Kids reception on the Hotel Georgia’s Reflections patio recently. Later, 42 partiers, including Canucks Derek...
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Town Talk: Auto dealer Moray Keith added bounce to new Cadillacs
HIGH FLYERS: Dueck auto dealer Moray Keith held a showroom party recently to launch Cadillac’s XT5 and CT6 models. Symbolizing manufacturer General Motors’ revival from government bailouts and decades...
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