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Town Talk: Internment-born Robert Banno honoured by Japan
Cathy Makihara saw husband Robert Banno receive Japan’s Rising Sun award for promoting mutual understanding and friendship. HONOUR DUE: Consul General Asako Okai conferred Japan’s Order of the Rising...
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Town Talk: Large but little-known Persian art collection revealed
FULL HOUSE: One of the more striking contemporary-art collections hereabouts has nothing to do with Michael Audain, Bob Rennie and suchlike. Its close to 1,000 pieces that have so filled Iran-born...
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Town Talk: Vancouver's Cause We Care Foundation reaches out to single mothers
WORKS OF HEART: Donors filled the Equinox Gallery again recently to raise a further $232,066 for the Cause We Care Foundation that Andrea Thomas Hill launched in 2007. With a resounding splash, too, as...
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Town Talk: Local movie addresses boxing peril
At a 2009 screening of Facing Ali, Muhammad Ali inspired Ben Ratner and Aleks Paunovic to make Ganjy, a short movie dedicated to him. RINGING SUCCESS: Sixty-seven professional bouts led to the...
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Town Talk: Chor Leoni's sweet sounds not so for a neighbour
BEGINS AT HOME: City police arrived at Southwest Marine Drive’s Casa Mia recently to answer a noise complaint. It didn’t involve an ear-splitting party like the ones where beer baron-rum-runner George...
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Town Talk: Gift of Time gala raises $1.1 million for Canuck Place
Emily Lazare and Shanni Eckford chaired the Gift of Time gala that reportedly raised $1.1 million for Canuck Place Children’s Hospice and a 12-year total exceeding $9 million.WORDS TO LOVE BY: Emily...
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Town Talk: Night to Dream benefits Ronald McDonald House
Aprilynne Haqq, Jordan Chin and Jana Wollesen backed Lindsey Turner when the Night to Dream gala she chaired reportedly raised $415,000 to benefit Ronald McDonald House. HAPPY MEAL: Banished in the...
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Town Talk: WE Day founders attend the Segals' pool party
UBC President Santa Ono hoped his 61,000 students might benefit the WE Day organization Marc Kielburger founded with brother Craig. Singer Paula Abdul attended the traditional pre-WE Day dinner at the...
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Town Talk: An ill wind eventually blew Arts Umbrella much good
HIGHER AND DRIER: Arts Umbrella took a $125,000 bath when wind warnings forced the rescheduling of its annual art auction, fittingly named Splash. The arts organization for youngsters didn’t want 600...
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Town Talk: Architect foresees wooden towers higher than the tallest trees.
Self-styled “carnivore” Sahra Samnani fittingly congratulated vegetarian companion Michael Green when the wood-promoting architect received Vancouver magazine’s Power 50 endorsement. THE NEW FIFTY:...
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Town Talk: Crystal Ball earned record $4.4 million for Children's Hospital
Thirty years after founding the Crystal Ball and chairing it many times, Isabelle Diamond attended the recent running with husband Charles. Cindy Beedie and husband Ryan, the Beedie Development Group...
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Town Talk: Santa's coming sees happy dogs support ill-treated others
BETTER WATCH OUT: Any milk and cookies would have vanished as dozens of dogs awaited Santa Claus at Grandview Highway’s Tisol store. That’s where Love On A Leash dog-care firm founder Tammy Preast’s...
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Town Talk: The Odd Squad enjoys a financially fruitful evening
Odd Squad Productions Society director Jim Byrnes and Paul Pigat entertained when an event raised over half the squad’s basic annual budget. EVENING THE ODDS: Composed of off-duty police officers, the...
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Town Talk: Consul General Asako Okai celebrates Emperor Akihito's birthday
WOMEN FIRST: Consul general Asako Okai hosted a reception recently to mark Emperor Akihito’s impending 83rd birthday on Dec. 23. Senior diplomats of two other major nations present were the U.S.A.’s...
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Town Talk: The Wall Ball drew 250 humans and one donkey
HAVING A BALL: A decorated ballroom, elegant tables, a banquet with bountiful beverages, musical entertainment and dancing made this year’s Wall Ball look like a full-dress charity gala. But it wasn’t....
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Town Talk: Year Today, Gone Tomorrow
With the old year bowing out, we’ll resurrect some of its unrealized bright hopes and dark fears for 2017. As for warm memories, the 33 folk pictured here were among hundreds seen in this column whose...
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Town Talk: Hospitalized kids partied as Canucks drowned Ducks
Steve Funk’s party guests included Faris Abdulwahab, who has a brittle-bone ailment, and Gabriella Gingran with a benign brain-stem tumour. ALL CANUCKS: Steve Funk’s adult pals could have joined him in...
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Town Talk: Obakki fashion firm's Treana Peake brings clean water to South Sudan
EAU YES: Water Street is where Treana Peake produces her wholly owned Obakki firm’s womenswear which is carried by Holt Renfrew and other North American retailers. But water delivery is her great...
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Town Talk: Vern Bethel's 'secret compound' holds many collector cars
TIRE-KICKIN’ TIME: Thousands of car collectors attended the Barrett-Jackson auction in Scottsdale, Ariz., this week. Fewer discovered False Creek Automotive principal Vern Bethel’s “secret compound” in...
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Town Talk: Chinese community raises $2.5 million for B.C. Children's Hospital
HAPPIER LUNAR NEW YEAR: Some 480 folk entered the Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel’s ballroom recently to dine on cured salmon, wagyu beef shortribs and poached lobster. When they left, they’d reportedly...
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