Cystic
Fibrosis Charity Cricket & Gala Day
From left- right:
Phil Jones (Tall Black), Paul Henare (NZ Hockey)
and Hayden Shaw ( Tall Black)
Lord
of the Rings -World
Premiere Photos
Although I was invited I could not go because of prior
engagement. Enjoy photos by Sam.
With Sam from Samuel Miller Films
1.Cartoonist
Tom Scott
2.Comedian Raybon Kan
3.TV Presenter,
Mark Sainsbury
4. TV3 Presenter,
John Campbell
5.TV1 Presenter,
Paul Holmes
David
Hartnell A Huge Hit In Christchurch
Hollywood gossip columnist David Hartnell visited Christchurch
briefly to launch his latest book:
David Hartnell's Hollywood Trivia
David
Hartnell and Sharon heading out to lunch
Max
Bygraves Concert
Christchurch
was fortunate enough to host two world renown and unique individuals:
entertainer
Max Bygraves
(left), and David Hartnell pictured
at Crowne Plaza with yours truly.
2003
Special Children's Christmas Party
Every year local businesses support over 2,000 very special Christmas
party for children at Westpac Trust Centre, Christchurch-including Crown
Limousines.
Carolyn & Jason (
What
Now TV Show ) heading to the party.
Zonta Christchurch Canterbury Christmas Dinner 2003
1.Having fun: the auctioned Christmas
cake just
been cut in half by Bob and Sharon.
"Garage Sale Angel" (hat on), Jenny, Bob (Sir Robert
Stewart) and yours truly.
2.Bob finally received his
Zonta certificate
Breaking
a record - marrying at 99 ?
I
was one of the guests today at
St James Rest Home, Avonside ,
privileged to witness a once
in a lifetime marriage between
a wonderful and beautiful 86
year old Dinah (Alberdinah)
Agnes Leech and a gentleman,
James Charles Gorringe.
The groom is 99 years old !
Photos by John Nichols of
Special Images
1.Making
a grand entrance in one of Crown Limousines' Rolls Royce
-son Kevin to give away
the bride
3.Signing
the marriage licence
4.The happy Bride (86)
and Groom (99)
Mike Albert as Elvis-all way from USA
Elvis Hits Christchurch
Child Hope Hoot
- Fundraising
1.Jason Gunn & crew
2.Jo Giles
3. Constable Keith & Dog "Sniff"
Positively Fabulous Fashion Show-The Chateau On The
Park,Christchurch
(A glimpse) of Sharon
On The Catwalk
World renown Magician visiting Christchurch
Mersmer the Magician
Your Day Trust Spring Wedding Bridal
Parade
Your
Day Trust Board
Zonta Fund Raising Dinner at The Casino
1.Chicago autographed t-shirt
2.Sharon at Zonta Dinner
David's Birthday
Winter Masked Ball- Jo Giles & James Daniels
Maharajah Restaurant Anniversary
L-R:
Dorothy Forbes, Sharon, Suzanne Bell &
friend
Cocoacabana In Christchurch
Where's Barry Manilow ?
1.Bolero Dancers
2.Havana Aye Coruba
3.Sweet Heaven
91ZMs Fijian Challenge
Lucky winners of 91 ZM's The Great Fijian Challenge
Francis Yip-world renown
songstress
Dennis Locorriere (Dr Hook)
Standing ovations by his ardent fans, Dennis brought the house down at
Christchurch Town Hall on Friday 13th- his birthday.Dont miss his show !
Comedian Michael Barrymore hitting town
Michael Barrymore
Outstanding performance
at Christchurch Town Hall, Michael Barrymore also spent a little time to
'unwind' with Cuban's Lo Maximo.
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Classic
Hits/ Crown Limousines/ Centra Hotel
Altrusa
Welcomes USA's Mary Check
Mary
Check
Irish
Singer Mary Duff
Mary Duff had a full house at
Palmerston North, then later at Christhurch, before she headed down
south to Gore Golden Guitar Awards.
Thai Ambassador,
Norachit Sinhaseni
from Royal Thai Embassy
visited Christchurch briefly to celebrate Thai New Year. ( Ambassador
on my right and his lovely wife on my left)
Golden Key
Awards Presentation
Presentation at Golden Key
Awards-Christchurch
(From left to right)
Jeanette Barson (Woman Today Magazine), Sharon, Jo Giles (Shopping
With Jo), Constable Keith de Dulin
Jimmy Barnes
Jimmy Barnes performed a
great concert at Civic, Christchurch.
See more details of his NZ tour on Concert Page
Valentines Ball
1. The Presentation by
Sharon
Valentines Ball For the Unattatched
2.Comperes: Jono and Kystal from ZM
3.Winning Couple
: (
Crowned ) Alison Dundass
& Murray Steele
4. Guests dancing the night
away !
5.The Entertainers:
Vague As Brothers
6. Event Professionals: (
L-R : Belinda Kay Williamson, John Carson, Suzanne Carson ( Manager),
Rebecca Parker
Your Day Trust Signing
As a Board member,Sharon signing the
Trust Deeds
Celia Lashlie's Book Launch-
Who Goes To Prison And Why-
Celia's Book Launch
Zonta Club Presidents, Celia
Lashlie & Sharon
Denyse Saunders
( MC) at
Degustation Dinner with some guests
Entertainer
Dave Dobbyn
in
Christchurch
Slice of Heaven
in Christchurch
The Drifters
(singers)
Many hit songs including Saturday
Night At The Movies
Garageland ( Popular Band)
Band Garageland visiting
Christchurch
Hayley Westenra- Early days
New Zealand's teen
sensation, who even has international contract !
Hot Chocolate
Several hit songs including You Sexy Thing
Jackie Clake, Darryl
Lovegrove & Tina Cross
CSO Special Guest Entertainers at Christchurch
Town Hall
The Searchers
Hit songs include Needles
and Pins
Sharon& David, Anne & Robin
Stubbersfield
Three
Tenors
Three Irish Tenors
& Friends
I
was one of the invited guests of Christchurch Casino and Three Irish
Tenors on St Patricks Day luncheon at the Casino.Guests were entertained
by the world renown Tenor, Brendan Locke with Patrick Fisher and
Brian Tucker.Also Karen Bruce, who could easliy be one of the world's
best sopranos Glenn, of course was a great pianist.
New Zealand welcomes His Exellency,
The
Governor of Sarawak
I was very priviledged to meet The
Governor of Sarawak.
This is His Excellency's first visit here and he enjoyed our lovely
country !
Irish Country
Singer, Daniel O'Donnell marries Majella
Let me
be the first to congratulate Daniel and Majella who tied the knot on 4
November. Due to some technical problems, I can not show you the wedding
photos but I promise to put them online very shortly. I can tell you
that they are the most happiest and adorable couple on the planet!
Click
here for the Daniel's wedding photo.
Business In The
Community Mentors' Function
Christchurch's
end of the year function was attended by the Mayor,Garry Moore,CDC
CEO,Chris Pickrill,patrons and mentors at Mayoral Lounge on Friday.It is
great to see how much we have achieved in helping Canterbury business
community.I needed to be in two places at once so I had to leave early
but enjoyed my hour there.
Louise Robertson
Jill Taiaroa
New Zealanders welcome
Pope of Alexandria's first visit
Pope Shenouda
111,spiritual leader of the ten million Coptic Orthodox Church from
Egypt received a warm welcome in New Zealand.While in Christchurch, the
Pope delivered a lecture at Canterbury University and consecrated the
Coptic Church in St Albans, one of the three in New Zealand.
Stay
tuned for photo.
Lion
Cubs at Orana Wildlife Park
Orana
Park staff welcome the arrival of two healthy Lion cubs, the first to be
born at the Park in 13 years! The chubby wee cubs are adapting well to
their surroundings. A public naming competition is planned for the
Christmas holiday period. To find out more about this be sure to
visit Orana Wildlife Park. Ph +64 3 359 7159.
Click
here for a photo of the cub. Have a great family day out.
Trade Card Ball - Aged
Concern Fundraiser
Huge success with raising funds for "Age Concern Canterbury".
Lynn & Jo,
Sharon
L, Sharron R & David
Author Celia
Lashlie's book celebration- a huge success-thanks to Zonta Clubs of
Christchurch
" The Journey to
Prison - Who Goes and Why ? "
Click
here for photo
Historical
Riccarton House Re-Opening Cocktail Party
I was one of the invited guests at Riccarton House last
evening, where a major renovation has taken place recently. Dame Tizzard
did the re-opening of Riccarton House. The grounds are well manicured
and the house has been restored to its former glory.
I strongly recommend that you take your family and friends there, either
for guided tours or to book your meal there including Christmas dinner !
You will be missing a very important part of history, art and the fact
that the famous Deans Bush is right next door (you would need
comfortable shoes). There is simply no other place in Christchurch with
such setting as river running in front of the historical house, the
acreage virtually within Christchurch city boundary ( you can actually
see and hear fan tails and other birds and the smell of bush
........ well you really have to experience it to understand ).
Four generations of Dean's family.
Lady Salsa attracts packed houses two nights
in a
row at Christchurch Town Hall- Don't miss this
show
It is hard to believe
that a 70 year old lady can be so active not to mention the amount of
pleasure she has given over the years dating back to war days.
It's
got everything you need for a wild night out , high energy dancing that
takes your breath away ,hot Cuban beats from a great Salsa band and some
most gorgeous dancers you would ever dream of seeing.
Christchurch, New Zealand's Women's Lifestyle Expo
-Most successful - Peacock Promotions Ltd
The Women's Lifestyle Expo is the original Expo for
women and has been a successful event in the North Island for over 6
years. Now planned as an annual event for Christchurch, the first Expo was
held on 5 & 6 October 2002 at WestpacTrust Centre.
The Expo brought together a variety of services and products aimed at
today's women, featuring ideas, information and items to buy. Featuring
almost 200 exhibitions with active hairdressing, fitness, food
& wine sampling and beauty sites. Large Art Court and Garden Court
was also included. Great fun for all !!
Each adult visitor received an Expo Goodie Gift Bag on arrival. Great
feedback from both the exhibitors as well as
visitors.
Also Anne
Stubbersfield QSM was @ the show.
Free parking
and flexibility were the key to the success of this very well received
show ! If you are contemplating participating in the next show,
Website
or
email
Men's Lifestyle Expo next ?
Trade Card Ball
Huge success with raising funds for "Age Concern Canterbury".
Lynn & Jo,
Sharon
L, Sharron R & David
Spring
Wedding Show by Your Day Trust- huge success
Huge thanks to all members of the community
(some travelled some distance), all exhibitors, media, and Rydges
Christchurch.Your Day Trust also thanks Actress Anna Wilding, Denyse
Saunders, MC -Constable Keith de Dulin, Richard Caves, webmaster Glenn
Campbell, all models (male & female), all volunteers from the Royal
New Zealand Foundation for the Blind for their time and effort.
With such team effort from everyone, we managed to raise over $4,600 for
two worthwhile charities, Child Helpline & the Royal New Zealand
Foundation for the Blind.
Exclusive Cocktail Party
-Jan Savarre (left)
Movie-The Last Viking production of Denmark.Uffe
Ziemelis was also at the function.
-Thomas Frank (right)
Austrian actor and screen writer
Betsy
with actress Anna Wilding & Sharon
at an exclusive Film Cocktail party
Ronan
Keating
Featured at WestpacTrust Centre, with a
majority female crowd. Great concert, packed house.
National Party Christchurch
Central Cocktail Evening
Amongst the guests to celebrate the business
success in the city were
-Peter Townsend
-
CEO of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce
-Nicky Wagner
-
Christchurch business woman and recently elected National candidate
for Christchurch Central
-David
Lingham - Crown Limousines
-Roger
Sowry - Deputy leader for the National Party
-Sharon
Lingham - SharonLingham.com and Crown Limousines
Commissioner
Shaw Clifford- NZ Salvation Army
At Christchurch airport off to
open Youth Awareness Programme
Daniel
O'Donnell
Daniel, of course is a great Irish singer and sang many of his own songs
as well as other singers' like Neil Diamond and does it so well. Even
after 4 hours, the audience did not seem to have enough of the wonderful
duo....I had great pleasure in meeting Daniel's fiancee, Majella and
what a delightful person she is
too !
Gene
Pitney
The crowd just loved Mr Pitney the moment he came on stage. Hit
song after hit song-Twenty four hours from Tulsa, Something's gotten
hold of my heart......then to some of the songs he wrote which
other people sang....... Well, I am not the one to tell you too
much-you'll have to go and check it out yourself ! All I can say is that
you won't be disappointed.
Check out Gene Pitney's tour dates
: www.gene-pitney.com
Bill
Sevesi and David Lingham
I met one of the most amazing and talented Billy Sevesi (78yrs old) who
has composed 200 songs, has over 20 LPs to his credit, was the
first to record Yandall Sisters and singer Annie Crummer when she was an
unknown 16 yr old. He was awarded QSM for his life long contribution to
music. And backed wonderful artists like Gene Pitney,
Everly Brothers & Clarence "Frogman" Henry.
Long
White Clouds is one of songs.
I felt like a princess as his invited guest but due to other commitments
,I left early - much to my regret that I missed out on his
speech about me with TV 1 doing the coverage. (Whatever you
said, I hope it was all good, Bill!).
Kevin
Kennedy, Gray Barlett, Brendon Dugan and Jodi Vaughan
All The Best- Coronation Street star, Kevin Kennedy (Curly
Watts) joins our Kiwi trio-Gray Bartlett, (renown guitarist) Brendon
Dugan & Jodi Voughan (both Country singers). Very successful New
Zealand tour. (I did not know that Kevin could sing so well,
particularly,
Lying In The Arms Of Mary
-when I had the CD played live on TV, we had lots of comments
about it and the CDs are selling extremely well! Child Cancer
Foundation t-shirt autographed by the wonderful team - photo by
Gilbert W-from
The Star.
The Supremes
(A tribute group)
Singers, The Supremes-(Tribute Group) classic soul chicks, delighted Christchurch
Concert goers. Somehow they remind me of Destiny's Child (younger
version). A couple of their hits are : Stop!
In The Name Of Love and
You can't
Hurry Love
Back
Chat
Billy
Hinche with Sharon
Jeffrey Foskett, Andy
Kim and Billy Hinchse - Hokitika Wine & Foof Festival
(Left-Right-Jeffery,Sharon,Andy,Billy
NZ Entertainer:Ray Columbus At Warners Hotel Concert
Ray Columbus
Singer
Andy Kim with Sharon (Ted Haglund operator in the front)-
After television show
Former Beach Boys,
Jeffrey
Foskett &
Billy
Hinsche were invited to sing during Hokitika Wild Food Festival and
when I learnt who they were - of course I did my usual ambassadorial
routine - taking them to radio, television stations as well The Press
for more publicity. Naturally, they proved very popular in Hokitika
talk-back shows ringing hot as
Surfin'
In USA and
Help Me
Rhonda.
They loved New
Zealand so much that they decided to come back with two of their friends:
Andy Kim
-Sugar Sugar
and
Rock Me Gently
soloist/song
writer,
and Robert Lamm-
Saturday Night In The Park -
also founder of
Chicago Band. (Robert is missing from this photo).
Last minute concert was arranged at Warners and it was absolutely
packed! We all hope it will be an annual event for these guys !
My Favourite
girls- Beth & Hanna
Beth & Hanna & Sharon
I had
great pleasure in introducing two of Barbershop - Backchat girls - Beth
Campbell & Hanna Calder and former Beach Boys, Jeffery
Foskett & Billy Hinsche as The Beach Boys & Surfer Girls
on television - this of course was the World's first announcement.
The former Backchat vocalists are from Cashmere High School in
Christchurch, New Zealand also were support singers for Jeffery &
Bill last year (Hokitika)
and the boys were so impressed, they invited them to perform at Carl
Wilson Benefit Concert in Santa Monica last year. And as I imagined it,
the girls were named the world champions at Sweet Adelines
International Rising Star Barbershop Contest in Texas. This December
will see the foursome - (Jeffery, Billy, Beth & Hanna) feature an
album
:Do You Know What I Know.
Make sure you get a copy
Don
Estelle (Lofty)
Don is renown for "Lofty" in popular
British comedy
It Aint Half
Hot Mum.Also in Whispering Grass. He
performed two shows- Sing Lofty
for
Christchurch Theatre Workshop and Casino. He seduced the audience withIf
I told you, You had a beautiful body.Not only
could he sing it so well-he was so hilarious with it !
Stella
Boh Runga (best female vocalist and song writer of
the year) along with Andrew Maclaren (drums), Chris Van de Geer (guitar)
and Kurt Shanks (bass). Credentials: Hitting no 1 in New Zealand charts
& charting "Mix" for 6 months, 5 platinum-making it NZ's
2nd biggest selling album by a local artist EVER. (Boh comes from
Christchurch, of course!). 5 top 20 singles in one year and boasting of
3 sold out national tours !!
The band Stella performed at Westpactrust Centre last summer along with
country other top bands. Violent
and
Undone are my favourites !
Little
River Band
(LRB)
Their trip to New Zealand was memorable as
they dedicated the song
Cool
Change to a wee Cancer patient.
Lady
is another
hit song.The band currently has Stephen Housden, Wayne Nelson, Glenn
Reither, Greg Hind and Kevin Murphy. As you can see,they are fun
loving team!
Rubicon,
Feelers, Silverchair and Tadpole
Recently performed for The Edge Radio at
Queens Wharf Event Centre Wellington, Westpactrust Centre Christchurch
& Hamilton - sellout at all centres !
(Rubicon
sings- Bruce)
