Without blinking, the clerk reached under the counter and put a pretzel package in the bag with the beer. "Here," he said. "Don't forget the curlers."
Jon Beckett's Axe Productions handled the sound and light for Nickelback's mini-concert in the WestJet hanger in Calgary last week. He left with an autographed Nickelback guitar.
Yesterday, Mike Yasinski and his new Edmonton Pub Crawl Company offered a giant dinner/pub crawl for his Standard, Union Hall, Armoury and Hudson's On Whyte pubs and clubs.
It's all up for auction, Nov. 1 to 3, in the Edmonton Sun and at www.CampusAuctionMarket.com. Hundreds of other donated packages will also be highest-bidder-bound. Think Christmas!
If you can help with a donation, please call me at 468-0290 or e-mail hickson6@edmsun.com. With your help, we hope to raise $200,000, $50,000 each for the United Way, Catholic Social Services' Sign of Hope, the Christmas Bureau and the Stollery Children's Hospital.
Nightclub owners are often portrayed as irresponsible louts out to make as much money as possible by pouring as much booze as possible down their patrons' impossibly open throats.
OK, it's half true. But the recently formed Old Strathcona Hospitality Association (OSHA), headed by The Attic's Morris Blayways and representing 22 Old Strathcona pubs and clubs, belies the myth.
Some recent accomplishments of the OSHA: Consultation with community leagues, litter controls, minimum drink prices, raising safety and security standards, promoting responsible patron behaviour and raising $25,000 for Old Strathcona charities.
When Iren Bartok launched into Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again (from Phantom of the Opera) at the Voices for Hospices benefit concert in the Winspear Centre earlier this month, chills ran up and down the spines of the 800 in attendance.
In London's West End in the early '90s, the Grant MacEwan musical graduate sang the role of Christine in Phantom of the Opera several times a week over 2 1/2 years.
Marc's now three. Iren was ready to return. Friends introduced her to the Pilgrim's Hospice. She volunteered to organize the musical side of the benefit concert. And she performed in concert for the first time in ages.
- Big smiles all around yesterday, with the provincial government giving Northlands a $35 million cheque to get on with building its new exposition hall - essentially an AgriCom II.
If anybody complains about giving Northlands money, let it be known the non-profit society puts far more into this city than it takes out - like subsidizing Rexall Place for the Oilers.
- Former Oiler/New York Rangers marketing director Trish Kerr is back in the saddle as one of Northlands' assistant managers, in charge of business development. You may remember the story of Trish and her husband Vance Macdonald surviving the 9-11 tragedy in 2001. They lived in the shadow of the World Trade Center at the time.
- Parking will be easier at Northlands, as the new southeast parking lot from 112 Avenue north alongside Wayne Gretzky Drive is just about ready for business.
How'd you like to have his Rolodex? Financial adviser/charity king Angus Watt was "arrested" yesterday at the Canadian Cancer Society's annual Jail N' Bail. His "bail" was set at $7,000.
The draw for the Hicks on Six/Chicago (the musical) Contest happens today at 2 p.m. The winner has four tickets to Chicago Nov. 8 at the Jubilee, dinner beforehand at Koutouki Taverna South and limo service in Blue Sky's Black Monster Hummer.
To enter the Hicks on Six/Chicago Contest, please answer these questions: 1. In the movie Chicago, who were the two leading actresses and what roles did they play? 2. Before the movie Chicago, another film had the same plot. What was the name of that film? 3. Who played Roxie?
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