A2 The Edmonton Journal 8unday, September 27, 1998 Olympian as fast with a vacuum as on a bobsled Nick Lees That bubble of macho charisma surrounding Edmonton's Olympic bobsled gold medallist 4 Pierre Lueders has been broken by k) his wife of one month. "He does windows and he does toilets," says former Canadian national sprint cyclist Sandra Eeglon. "Don't forget the vacuuming," says Lueders. "I'm also good at that" The couple Friday night attended Edmonton's third annual Wine Auc-tion and Gala Dinner at the Westin Hotel and helped raise about $25,000 for the Food Bank. But Lueders.
who spoke from the heart about helping the needy, revealed that he seldom drinks and knew little of the wine being auc-J; tioned. "Most of the champagne I come across is being splashed by winners," says the big, square-jawed, 6-feet-2-1 inch tall, 220-pound all-round athlete. "That's a great thing to do with it. I don't particularly like the taste." Lueders seldom drinks, but admits to having had "a few beers" at his wedding. "It took me a long time to get over them," he said.
"I've just never devel- i'' oped a taste for alcohol." u' His bride, who retired from competition four years ago, did sip each of four wines served with dinner and the liqueur that followed. Lueders, back training hard smce 0 May, has just returned from a "push" competition in Monaco and will com- pete in the first World Cup race of the season, to be held in Calgary this November. Nick Lees, 77m Journal Bobsled Olympic gold medallist Pierre Lueders and wife, Sandra Eeglon, revealed at a Weston Hotel gala dinner that he is a role-model husband "Sandra and I had known of each other for several years, but we 'officially' met at Calgary's Canada Olympic Park In 1995," says Lueders. A bobsled ride for two donated by the Olympic medallist brought anxiety to Sandra Doyle, who along with her husband, Trent, paid $1,800 for the ride. "We wanted it for our 11-year-old son, Chad," said Sandra, of Lendrum Liquor Merchants.
"But Pierre says you must be 18 years of age for insurance purposes. I will have to go. But I'm not at all athletic." Lueders has generously donated bobsled rides to local charity events during the last few months and has helped to raise some $14,000. The Cool Cats of the Evening award from the wine auction must go to the table that bought a three-litre bottle of 1983 Robert Mondavi Cabernet Sauvi-gnon Reserve for $410 and then promptly opened it. "It seemed like the proper thing to do," says Rob Filipchuk of Cristall's Wine Market.
Filipchuk last week outbid Don Nick Lees, The Journal Scott Parker uncorks a $41 0 bottle of 1983 Robert Mondavi Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve bought at auction Shiraz Karmali of Big Daddy's co*cktail Lounge, a longtime supporter of the Food Bank. After donating a couple of limo rides to Big Daddy's for dinner, he paid $450 for an autographed Mark Messier hockey jersey and another $600 for a rare Bordeaux wine. A wine-tasting for eight hosted by Mayor Bill Smith and Economic Development Edmonton boss Jim Edwards went to Frank and Bev Farkas of Dales Jewellers, for $375. One of the "big hearts" of the night was Don Byrne, who bought a nine-litre bottle of Perequita unseen. "Jose Maria de Fonseca assures us die bottle is at sea and is even now Wheaton Jr.
at Blu's Womenwear's Threads of Hope fund-raiser for WIN House and walked off with a couple of return air tickets to Vancouver, a stay and dinner at the Pan Pacific Hotel and tickets for the musical, Rent. But even though he paid $2,700 for the gala at the Citadel Theatre, he wants it known he is not applying for Daddy Warbucks' job. "I could probably have got the same package for about half the sum," he says. "But I was heavily involved in the event and supplied the wine for it. This was my way of contributing right back to a very good cause." Also in on the Mondavi deal was steaming towards us from Portugal," says Marie Goulet, the committee gala chair who represents Liquor Select.
She adds, "It was a great evening. But I believe with more corporate involvement, we could next year help Edmonton's needy even more." Matching Macho It's 'Move over, men' as women take to surf J0jmf niiirii winw iiuw. VJ Inside TODAY Canada Ottawa plans a coordination centre for crime victims.A3 World Georges leaves a trail of wreckage on the Florida Keys.A4 Alberta A prominent friend of medicare can't attend a key meeting on private hospitals.A5 City Development of substitutes for blood got a big boost in recent city artery bypass surgeryVAl 1 Opinion Canadians deserve a coherent federal plan to meet the Kyoto emissions target, says The JournalJAAA Extra Scientists are racing to conquer Spanish flu, history's worst killer diseaseVBI Entertainment Alex Salkever Special to the Christian Science Monitor Sunset Beach, Hawaii When Rochelle Ballard takes off on a wave on Oahu's North Shore, everyone stops to watch photographers, the media, sponsors and even the men who have until recently monopolized the spotlight in this traditionally macho sport. As the second-ranked female professional surfer in the world, she is part of a gung-ho group of "surfer girls" who are bringing glamour, prestige and popularity to surfing. No longer content to sit on the beach and watch their boyfriends surf as their mothers did, young women are increasingly taking up the board.
Fuelling the boom is a wave of media attention and a new set of role models that have made surfing cool for both sexes. These wave-rideing women say they are helping to tone down aggressive attitudes among male surfers. "Women bring a good feel to surfing out in the lineup," says Ballard, a Kauai native. "We're out here to have fun. For the most part, guys are stoked we are out in the water." "Surfing is a hard sport, and you have to be strong," Ballard says.
"It's much different from the past, when a typical girl would starve herself and not have any muscles." While endorsem*nts and fees for women surfers still lag the men's, "they are catching up pretty quickly," says Jodi Young, international media manager of the Association of Surfing Professionals which says the average annual winnings for a surfer on the women's world championship tour was $30,000 in 1997 compared with about $31,000 for the tour's male surfers. A few top female surfers earn six figures. Industry attitudes toward women dramatically improved in the early 1990s when a lithe, blond surf queen, Lisa Andersen, arrived on the scene. Part poster girl and part high-performance surfer, she won four world championships in a row. She entered a male professional contest and humbled several young pro surfers before being eliminated.
Women around the globe began imitating Andersen. Surfing has not always been a male-dominated sport. In ancient Hawaii, where the sport originated, kings often took to the waves accompanied by their queens. But in the 1960s, despite a crop of kitschy movies portraying surf queens like Gidget, few women left their beach chairs to paddle out to the waves. Women wave-riders have found a mouthpiece: Surfer Girl, a magazine launched in July out of Santa Cruz, has attracted almost 50,000 subscription requests, while the online version receives 10,000 hits a day PEOPLE Fame mixed blessing for businessman prince Changing his name hasn't helped Britain's Prince Edward, 34, to deflect fame.
To get people to focus on his small film company, Ardent Productions the Queen's youngest child calls himself Edward Windsor. "The very fact that people always ask me about my title, means that they're still hung up about it. They're not looking at the programs we make, they're only looking at the title," Edward is quoted as saying Saturday in the Washington Post. While he admits his family's fame has helped, "probably the cons outweigh the pros," because people see him as a prince, not as an artist or businessman. Gershwin's 100th feted: Carnegie Hall has marked the 100th birthday Saturday of music genius George Gershwin in a gala.
From An American in Paris to Porgy and Bess, his pop tunes-turned-classics still tug at the U.S. soul. His music opened the Carnegie season this week as part of a worldwide celebration marking the centennial. Jazz singer Betty Carter dies: Betty Carter, 69, a Grammy-winning singer who worked with jazz greats like Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie and later became known as the godmother of jazz for nurturing young musical talent, died Saturday of cancer. She was best known to fans for her signature singing style daring improvisations and unusual approaches to songs that included scat-singing around every tune and bouncing syncopations against every offbeat but the expected one.
It's the style that helped catapult her 1960 duet with Ray Charles, Baby It's Cold Outside, to a jazz classic. President Bill Clinton gave her a National Medal of Arts award in 1997. All in a day's work: What a day for veteran Victoria cabbie Glenn Schmidt. He picked up a fare to take Bucking a trend, a movie- The Canadian Press THAT'S A DOZEN Mrs. Theresa Gallant, sponsor of HMCS Summerside, prepares to christen it Saturday at the Halifax Shipyards.
The ship is the 12th and final one of the Kingston-class vessels built there for use primarily by the naval reserve on coastline patrols. him to a bank, where the fare went in and got back in the cab with a package. "As soon as he sat down a big red cloud of smoke burst out of the money pack, inside my taxi," Schmidt said Friday, aware the man had robbed the bank. In moments Schmidt had hauled the man out, the man had run around and tried to drive off, Schmidt had "schmucked him one in the mouth" and finally ended sitting on him until the cops arrived to lay a robbery charge. Flattered by Diana: Former England rugby captain Will Carling said Saturday that he loved Diana, Princess of Wales.
Speaking for the first time publicly about his friendship with the late princess, Carling told London's Mail newspaper he fell for Diana's flirtatious charm when they met at a posh London health club in 1995. "I did love the princess. I was flattered by the princess's attention. I'd defy any man to say he wouldn't be," Carling, 32, recounted. "I found her incredibly attractive and she had this gift of sensing unhappiness in others," said Carling, who met Diana as his marriage to television presenter Julia Carling was in trouble.
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