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STEVENS /
LANTZ -- Buck and Doe
Shannon STEVENS and Brady
LANTZ
Durham Community Centre, Saturday, June 14, 2008, 9.00 p.m. to
1: 00 a.m.
Age of Majority - DJ -- Door Prizes - Food Provided
Tickets: $8.00 advance / $10.00 at the door
Call (519) 334-3601 or (519) 986-4632 at Holstein General Stone and
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TRIFLER /
LANYS -- Susan and Gerry
TRIFLER, Sandi and Marty
LANYS
are thrilled to and announce the engagement of Alizah Rebecca
and Shawn Paul. Ecstatic grandmothers are Claire
CORDES,
Yetta
LANYS and Joyce
SONE.
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KROPF /
LAPARE -- Engagement
Doug and Jane
KROPF are pleased to announce the engagement of
their daughter Kelly Marie to Bruce William
LAPARE,
son of Barb
Abram and John
LAPARE.
The wedding will take place on June 3rd,
2006 in Waterloo. The couple will reside in the London area following
their marriage. Best wishes, we love you!
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DE GROOT
BOERSMA /
LAPRISE
Monica and Daniel, together with their parents Fred and the late
Nellie DE GROOT
BOERSMA of London and Judith and Sylvia
LAPRISE
of Grande Pointe are pleased to announce the forthcoming marriage
wich will take place September 20th, at the First Christian Reformed
Church in London.
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MELTZ /
LAPRISE -- Rita and Stephen
ESTRIEN,
Raymond and Maxine
MELTZ are proud to announce the engagement of their daughter
Natalie MELTZ to Shawn
LAPRISE,
son of Ken and Jeannie
LAPRISE
and Debbie and Jim
FITZGERALD.
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McLEOD,
Sam and Sharon - Happy 40th Anniversary
August 21, 2005
Dave and Mary Jane
LAPTHORNE
Cheers to Best Friends!
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LARIZZA,
John and Marilyn - 25th Anniversary
Thank you for the most memorable and happy days of our life.
Love you forever your wife and children Marilyn, Melissa and
Michael.
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HOCKING /
LARKIN
Gord and JerryLynn
HOCKING are pleased to announce the engagement
of their daughter Jennifer to Adam
LARKIN.
Congratulations!
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SCOTT,
Jack and Jean - 60th Anniversary
March 30, 2006
Congratulations and much love to Jack and Jean
SCOTT on 60 years
of marriage, from their children, Sandra and David
HODSON,
Dawn
and Brian MURPHY,
Bill and Lottie
SCOTT; grandchildren Amy and
Chris McCARTEN,
Paul and Lisa
HOPKINS, Scott and Cara
HODSON,
Shayne and Darren
LARSEN,
Ryan (and Casey)
MURPHY, Nicholas
SCOTT,
Drew SCOTT,
Shelby
HODSON, great-grand_sons Aidan
LARSEN and Dylan
HODSON.
Best wishes also from many nieces and nephews and Friends.
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LASH /
LEUENBERGER -- Forthcoming Marriage
Herb and Peggy
LASH along with Ernie and Marianne
LEUENBERGER
are pleased to announce the forthcoming marriage of their children,
Heather and Dustin. Their ceremony will take place Friday, July
14, 2006 at Precious Blood Cathedral in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
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LASHBROOK,
Nancy and Harley - 50th Wedding Anniversary
The family invites you to an Open House Sunday, September 21,
2003 1: 30 - 3:30 p.m.
Saint Mary's Parish Hall, West Lorne.
Best wishes only.
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LASHBROOK,
Ross and Irene - 50th Anniversary
Open House
Would like you to help them celebrate 50 years of marriage, Sunday
July 10, 2005 1: 00-3:00 p.m. at Bluewater Country Hall 5700 Blackwell
Sideroad, Sarnia.
"Best Wishes Only".
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Forthcoming Marriage
LATTA /
CAMMOCK
The families of Tim
LATTA and Lorraine
CAMMOCK wish to announce
their wedding June 14, 2003 in the garden of Ken and Janis' home.
Stag and Doe May 31st at the Lucan Community Centre, 8pm-1 a.m.
Please come and send your wishes to the bride and groom.
P.S. Happy 30th Birthday to Tim, May 30th.
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LAU m@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-01-15 published
Nancy LAU and Jeremy
TAMM
By Judith Tenenbaum, Saturday, January 15, 2005 - Page M6
'What's a girl like me doing in a place like this?" was the thought
that flitted through Nancy
LAU's mind as, numb, drenched and
exhausted, she and boyfriend Jeremy
TAMM forged the slithery
slopes of Mount Washington in New Hampshire. At 6,288 feet, the
inhospitable peak is reputed to have the world's worst weather
and winds -- and a trail marked with memorials. So for Ms.
LAU,
a cosmopolitan Toronto native, the ascent was tough.
"Before I met Jeremy, my only experience with the outdoors was
hailing a cab on King Street," she says.
The pair became painfully aware that the rosy view that had seduced
them as they motored a paved road to the peak a few years earlier
was an illusion. On this hiking trip, in late June of 2003, they
encountered a harshly different reality. "We were expecting it
to be like the Bruce Trail, dirt and some boulders, but the whole
thing is rock and steep. You are stepping up boulder after boulder,"
Ms. LAU says.
"It was 30 degrees at the base, beautiful, sunny," Mr.
TAMM adds.
"But it started raining, we hit clouds and at the top it was four degrees."
His idyllic vision of conquering the mountain and presenting
a ring dimmed, until a bedraggled Ms.
LAU plunked herself down on an outcropping.
Seizing the moment, the deflated Mr.
TAMM rallied. "This is the
first place we visited together... and it has been a long journey
to get back," he told Ms.
LAU, and despite her desultory staccato
responses of "yes... yes," he persevered and proffered the ring.
Suddenly, in a spectacular tour de force, a revivified Ms.
LAU
dynamited to the summit and dashed down the mountain to call
her parents, with Mr.
TAMM in dogged pursuit.
It was the Canada Day long weekend, and her diamond, a Canadian
stone, was especially meaningful to her. "It's really significant
that I am first-generation Canadian, and it's symbolic that something
I'm going to wear all the time comes from my birthplace," Ms.
LAU says.
Equally important was the fact that it wasn't a "blood diamond."
"I wanted it to come from a place where I knew nobody was going
to die because of it," she says.
Happenstance brought the two together in June, 2000, when Mr.
TAMM, now 32, joined the Information Technology firm that employed
Ms. LAU, a civil engineer. She offered up her PowerPoint savvy
to help sharpen a presentation he was doing, and after a quick
bite that turned into a four-hour conversation, their working
alliance evolved into a starry liaison.
The outdoorsy Mr.
TAMM, an avid snowboarder, sailboarder, mountain
biker and climber, soon realized his interests differed from
those of the sedentary Ms.
LAU.
But by Christmas, confident she
was made of stern stuff, "and she'd persevere," he outfitted
Ms. LAU for powdery slopes.
"Before I met Nancy, I was a committed bachelor," Mr.
TAMM says,
noting, "She became a constant companion and it became important
to share my life with her."
"I took a couple of lessons, went to Blue Mountain [near Collingwood,
Ontario], and had just learned to carve [turn] when he took me
to Banff," she says. "I was totally intimidated. Being out West
is a big deal for a snowboarder and I wanted him to embrace his
environment, not babysit me."
Mr. TAMM, however, recalls with a laugh that when he careered
black diamond runs for entire days, leaving her behind to tackle
the easier green runs, "there was some serious pouting."
The venturesome Ms.
LAU has since taken on another challenge,
switching careers to pursue a chartered accountant designation.
"Being my age, 33, there is always that conundrum: It's too late,
I've got to start over, and will be taking a five-year hit. But
in the end I know it will be worth it."
Mr. TAMM, meanwhile, has moved on to a position as senior sales
specialist with Telus.
At Vaughan Estate on September 5, the couple recited vows, modified
from Reverend Otto
SEEGERS's template. Attendants rewrote tradition
in the recessional by following the newlyweds "in single file
as we appreciate each one as an individual," Ms.
LAU explains.
In lieu of wedding favours, a donation was made to the Jenny
Lau Memorial Award, established when the bride's younger sister
died suddenly of meningitis in 1996 while a student at the University
of Toronto. The award is presented annually to a graduate of
outstanding character in occupational therapy, Jenny's discipline.
"I miss Jenny deeply. My only wish is that she could have known
Jeremy," Ms.
LAU says.
"I loved our wedding. I could relive that day, every day for the rest of my life."
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Victoria Mireille
HOCKIN and Craig Arthur
LAURENCE -- Match:
By Judith TENENBAUM,
Page▼ M6
After▼ dating for five months, Victoria
HOCKIN and Craig
LAURENCE
were still proceeding cautiously until a trip to Boston for a
U2 concert propelled their romance to the next level. There,
as they strolled through an outdoor market, past a coterie of
buskers, she describes "a turning point for both of us. One busker
was playing, All You Need Is Love, and a group of kids were clapping,
singing along. As Craig and I walked by, he stopped, pointed
and said, 'There's a couple in love, right there!' He said, 'Kiss
her,' and the kids went, 'Kiss her! Kiss her!' Craig grabbed
me, kissed me and did one of those little dips you do when you're
dancing."
"It was a poignant moment. I'll never forget it," adds Mr.
LAURENCE.
Each of them had recently become disentangled, when they met
in January, 2005. Mutual Friends arranged a double date with
the two, only to opt out at the last moment and leave the couple
to their own devices. After a long revelatory evening "out for
pints," Mr.
LAWRENCE, who is a Chartered Accountant and a graduate
of Queen's University and the University of Windsor, was enchanted
-- in awe of Ms.
HOCKIN's accomplishments and taken with her
humour. "It left me wanting to get to know her more," he admits.
Sadly, the following morning she was spirited away to the Palm
Springs Film Festival where her Last Mogul documentary on the
legendary Lou Wasserman premiered as a smash hit. (It would later
be featured in New York and Toronto, as well.) "Craig e-mailed
for the whole weekend, checking in and taking a real interest
in what I was doing, which was really nice," she recalls. "I
gave him a call when I got back."
Products of an idyllic adolescence, the couple had grown up in
Aurora, spending their summers at Muskoka camps and cottages.
He was an accomplished guitarist and she was a pianist. Together,
they saw music "as another language that we speak." She laughs
as she shares Mr.
LAURENCE's recurring fantasy: "He'd like to
say 'rock star,' but he's not."
Their▼ parents knew each other, and Mr.
LAURENCE, now 36, had
attended St. Andrews College, where Ms.
HOCKIN's father had earlier
been headmaster. "There aren't that many girls who can talk about
what it's like to grow up in a boys' boarding school," she chuckles.
With a B.A. in English from University of Western Ontario's Huron
College, Ms.
HOCKIN, now 34, is the executive vice-president
and a partner at Endeavour Marketing. There, over the past six
years -- enlisting her business partner, Barry
AVRICH, as a writer
and director -- she has produced documentaries.
In September, 2005, Mr.
LAURENCE, a new business-development
corporate strategist at Canadian Tire Corp. Ltd., planned a Positano
getaway for the two of them. Ms.
HOCKIN's aspirations soared.
But then, in a riveting performance (citing insufficient time
to seek her parents' permission, let alone choose a ring,) Mr.
LAURENCE
provided the reality check: "I just need you to manage your expectations.
It's not going to happen in Italy."
"I really bought it," Ms.
HOCKIN admits, determined not to be
disappointed. She was subsequently astonished, then, on the balcony
of their villa in Amalfia -- as they chatted over wine and the
dinner she'd just made -- when Mr.
LAURENCE proffered the ring.
On February 4, 2006, at St. Paul's Anglican Church on Bloor Street,
the Rev. Tim
HAUGHTON officiated, as three-year-old Foxtyn
STEPHEN,
the bridegroom's nephew and ring bearer, performed flawlessly
-- despite an unnerving left turn and his disappearance at the
rehearsal. A gourmet reception followed at the Toronto Hunt Club,
with grilled cheese sandwiches, chocolate chip cookies and milk
shooters capping the evening.
"Craig is a mathematical guy, but creative when it comes to music.
Doing very different things in our careers gives us a lot to
talk about," Mrs.
LAURENCE enthuses. Her husband adds, "Tori
is a romantic, and it's great to be on the receiving end. I like
to think I'm on the giving end, as well."
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KEHOE /
LAUZON -- Marriage Announcement
Noreen Lloyd
KEHOE along with Charon and Ron
LAUZON are pleased
to announce the marriage of their children Jennifer Meghan
KEHOE
and Ryan Jerome
LAUZON on July 1, 2006, in London, Ontario. Reception
took place at Huron College, University of Western Ontario.
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Thomas COOK and Brenda
COOK --
By Judith TENENBAUM,
Saturday,▼
April▼ 16, 2005, Page M6
Thomas George
COOK's eyes welled with tears when he saw his bride
in her ivory wedding gown, descending the staircase at Grande
St. Lucian Resort in St. Lucia. "She looked so beautiful I was
breathless and started to cry," he says.
Onlookers cheered the couple as they walked down a pathway to
exchange vows in an ocean-side garden before a local registrar.
Finally, after four children and a quarter-century of marriage,
Brenda COOK was wed in the traditional dress she had missed out
on the first time around.
On December 30, the residents of Georgetown, Ontario, renewed
their vows to mark their 25th anniversary, the first time in
their marriage that they had ever been on a holiday without their
children.
"We were worried about how we were going to interact alone together
without kids," Mr.
COOK says, but his wife enthuses, "We fell
in love with each other all over again."
The ceremony fulfilled a long-held wish of Mrs.
COOK's, her husband
says. "Over the years of our marriage I have always asked her,
'Had you any regrets about how we were married?' and she said,
'The only regret I had was not wearing a white wedding gown.'"
They met in 1977 when she, then Brenda May
LAW, was 16 and he
was two years her senior. His older sister had been enlisted
to supervise her and two siblings while their parents vacationed
in Florida.
Mr. COOK says he thought he "shouldn't go out with her because
she was too young," but her parents supported the relationship
and the romance flowered.
Although they envisioned a traditional wedding three years later,
the pair were married in a quiet civil ceremony after the new
Anglican minister at her family's church posed an impediment.
"He didn't know our family or me," she remembers, "and thought
Tom and I were far too young and wanted us to take marriage classes
at the church."
But Mr. COOK rebelled upon learning the minister himself was
not married. "What does somebody who isn't, or hasn't been married,
going to tell us, whose parents have been married over 25 years?"
he says. "I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life with Brenda
and anything he told me was not going to change that."
So she enlisted a family friend, Supreme Court judge John
GREENWOOD,
to marry them in his chambers at Osgoode Hall in Toronto on January
18, 1980. It was the first and only time he had performed a wedding.
"We were happy just to get married," Mr.
COOK says.
The young couple also surprised their new neighbours as they
moved into their first home, in Port Credit. When asked when
their parents were going to arrive, Mrs.
COOK responded, "We
are not helping our parents move in. This is my, and my husband's,
home."
They would be blessed with four children, Tom, 23, Robynn, 22,
William, 14, and Katelynn, 12, all of whom demonstrate academic
and athletic excellence. They share their parents' love of the
outdoors and respect for the environment. The two younger children
and their mother regularly cycle the Martin Goodman Trail to
Toronto.
When the couple decided to renew their vows, she explored the
bridal salons with her daughters. "My youngest daughter picked
out a Cinderella dress," laughs Mrs.
COOK, an administrative
assistant at Extendicare.
Wearing the gown was a highlight of the trip for her. "I wasn't
allowed to see it until the day of the wedding," says Mr.
COOK,
a supervisor with Toronto Hydro, adding that she dined and danced
in it until 4 a.m.
Before the trip to St. Lucia, their children arranged a surprise
party to mark their parents' silver anniversary. Robynn encapsulates
the couple's journey: "My parents have never had things easy.
From day one of their marriage at such a young age they have
strived to stay afloat even when the going got tough. They have
supported me along the way in every goal that I have achieved
-- and even those I've failed."
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50th Anniversary Celebrated
On December 22 the family of well-known local residents Bob and
Jean ELLIOT/ELLIOTT held a celebration event at Saint_John's Church, Flesherton,
in honour of their parents' 50th wedding anniversary. The Elliotts
are pictured above with their family. Back row, left to right:
Paul LAWLER, Brett
MASON, Chris
GRAHAM, Pam
GRAHAM, Caitlyn
GRAHAM,
Bill GRAHAM.
Centre row: Brittany
LAWLER, Emily
LAWLER, Paulette
LAWLER, and Pat
ELLIOT/ELLIOTT.
Missing from photo: Chad
MASON.
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LAWLER,
Gerald and Ann - 50th Wedding Anniversary
June 7, 2008. Love from all the family
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LAWRENCE /
VON
MUHLENEN -- Buck and Doe
Buck and Doe for Mary Lynn (Turkey)
LAWRENCE and Micheal
VON
MUHLENEN
Holstein Pavilion, Saturday, June 2, 2007 9: 00pm-1am
Tickets $5.00 Age of Majority Required
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LAWRENCE /
VON
MUHLENEN -- Forthcoming Marriage
Wayne and Nancy
LAWRENCE and Stefan and Vreni
VON
MUHLENEN
Wish▼
to Announce The Forthcoming Marriage Of Their Children Mary Lynn
LAWRENCE and Michael
VON
MUHLENEN on August 4, 2007
Please accept this as your personal invitation to celebrate their
marriage at 8: 00 p.m. at the home of the bride's parents 263657 Southgate
Road 26
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LAWRENCE /
VON
MUHLENEN -- Forthcoming Marriage
Wayne and Nancy
LAWRENCE and Stefan and Vreni
VON
MUHLENEN
Wish▲
to Announce The Forthcoming Marriage Of Their Children Mary Lynn
LAWRENCE and Michael
VON
MUHLENEN on August 4, 2007
Please accept this as your personal invitation to celebrate their
marriage at 8: 00 p.m. at the home of the bride's parents 263657 Southgate
Road 26
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MILNE /
LAWRENCE
Paul and Judy
MILNE of London are pleased to announce the forthcoming
marriage of their daughter Carolyn to Jason
LAWRENCE of Toronto.
Jason is the
son of Jack and Carol
LAWRENCE of Durham, Ontario.
The wedding will take place Saturday, July 12, 2003 in London,
Ontario at the Elsie Perrin Williams Estate.
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LAWRENCE,
George and Agnes - Happy 55th Anniversary
In honour of their 55th, George and Agnes have discovered a solution
to the increasing price of gas!
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LAWRENCE /
BOOT -- Engagement
Wayne and Rose
LAWRENCE of London are pleased to announce the
engagement of their daughter Kerry
LAWRENCE to Jonathan
BOOT,
son of John and Betty
BOOT of Sarnia. Marriage to take place
in Sarnia on November 18, 2006.
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LAWRENCE /
BOOT -- Engagement
Wayne and Rose
LAWRENCE of London are pleased to announce the
engagement of their daughter Kerry
LAWRENCE to Jonathan
BOOT,
son of John and Betty
BOOT of Sarnia. Marriage to take place in Sarnia on November 18, 2006.
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LAWRENCE,
Ed and Fran - 60th Wedding Anniversary
Congratulations on your 60th Wedding Anniversary June 19, 2008
Love from your children, their spouses, grandchildren and great-granddaughters.
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Victoria Mireille
HOCKIN and Craig Arthur
LAURENCE -- Match:
By Judith TENENBAUM,
Page▲ M6
After▲ dating for five months, Victoria
HOCKIN and Craig
LAURENCE
were still proceeding cautiously until a trip to Boston for a
U2 concert propelled their romance to the next level. There,
as they strolled through an outdoor market, past a coterie of
buskers, she describes "a turning point for both of us. One busker
was playing, All You Need Is Love, and a group of kids were clapping,
singing along. As Craig and I walked by, he stopped, pointed
and said, 'There's a couple in love, right there!' He said, 'Kiss
her,' and the kids went, 'Kiss her! Kiss her!' Craig grabbed
me, kissed me and did one of those little dips you do when you're
dancing."
"It was a poignant moment. I'll never forget it," adds Mr.
LAURENCE.
Each of them had recently become disentangled, when they met
in January, 2005. Mutual Friends arranged a double date with
the two, only to opt out at the last moment and leave the couple
to their own devices. After a long revelatory evening "out for
pints," Mr.
LAWRENCE, who is a Chartered Accountant and a graduate
of Queen's University and the University of Windsor, was enchanted
-- in awe of Ms.
HOCKIN's accomplishments and taken with her
humour. "It left me wanting to get to know her more," he admits.
Sadly, the following morning she was spirited away to the Palm
Springs Film Festival where her Last Mogul documentary on the
legendary Lou Wasserman premiered as a smash hit. (It would later
be featured in New York and Toronto, as well.) "Craig e-mailed
for the whole weekend, checking in and taking a real interest
in what I was doing, which was really nice," she recalls. "I
gave him a call when I got back."
Products of an idyllic adolescence, the couple had grown up in
Aurora, spending their summers at Muskoka camps and cottages.
He was an accomplished guitarist and she was a pianist. Together,
they saw music "as another language that we speak." She laughs
as she shares Mr.
LAURENCE's recurring fantasy: "He'd like to
say 'rock star,' but he's not."
Their▲ parents knew each other, and Mr.
LAURENCE, now 36, had
attended St. Andrews College, where Ms.
HOCKIN's father had earlier
been headmaster. "There aren't that many girls who can talk about
what it's like to grow up in a boys' boarding school," she chuckles.
With a B.A. in English from University of Western Ontario's Huron
College, Ms.
HOCKIN, now 34, is the executive vice-president
and a partner at Endeavour Marketing. There, over the past six
years -- enlisting her business partner, Barry
AVRICH, as a writer
and director -- she has produced documentaries.
In September, 2005, Mr.
LAURENCE, a new business-development
corporate strategist at Canadian Tire Corp. Ltd., planned a Positano
getaway for the two of them. Ms.
HOCKIN's aspirations soared.
But then, in a riveting performance (citing insufficient time
to seek her parents' permission, let alone choose a ring,) Mr.
LAURENCE
provided the reality check: "I just need you to manage your expectations.
It's not going to happen in Italy."
"I really bought it," Ms.
HOCKIN admits, determined not to be
disappointed. She was subsequently astonished, then, on the balcony
of their villa in Amalfia -- as they chatted over wine and the
dinner she'd just made -- when Mr.
LAURENCE proffered the ring.
On February 4, 2006, at St. Paul's Anglican Church on Bloor Street,
the Rev. Tim
HAUGHTON officiated, as three-year-old Foxtyn
STEPHEN,
the bridegroom's nephew and ring bearer, performed flawlessly
-- despite an unnerving left turn and his disappearance at the
rehearsal. A gourmet reception followed at the Toronto Hunt Club,
with grilled cheese sandwiches, chocolate chip cookies and milk
shooters capping the evening.
"Craig is a mathematical guy, but creative when it comes to music.
Doing very different things in our careers gives us a lot to
talk about," Mrs.
LAURENCE enthuses. Her husband adds, "Tori
is a romantic, and it's great to be on the receiving end. I like
to think I'm on the giving end, as well."
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HARLTON /
LAWRENCE
Ms. Wendy HARLTON of London is pleased to
announce the forthcoming marriage of her daughter, Sarah Diane
to Gregory Brian,
son of Brian and Jane
LAWRENCE of Scarborough.
The wedding will take place in London on August 16, 2003.
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LAWRENCE /
SHANKS -- Trevor and Anthea, together with their parents
Keith and Beth (Toronto) and Graham and Marjory (Wanaka, New
Zealand) are thrilled to announce their engagement to family
and Friends.
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LAWSON m@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-04-30 published
Jamie LAWSON and Leo
RAUTINS -- Match:
By Judith TENENBAUM,
Saturday,▲▼
April▲▼ 30, 2005, Page M6
Lyricist Carl Sigman's 1950s classic line, "Many a tear has to
fall, but it's all in the game," could have been Jamie
LAWSON
and Leo RAUTINS's theme song until the two met and their romance
became a slam dunk.
A basketball phenomenon at Saint Michael's College in Toronto,
Mr. RAUTINS was inducted into the Canadian Basketball Hall of
Fame and played 10 years for Canada's national team. He starred
with the Syracuse University Orangemen and was a first-round
draft choice of the Philadelphia 76ers, for whom he played in
1983-84. Then, after a brief stint with the Atlanta Hawks, his
professional play was in Europe until 1992. A career switch to
broadcasting led to his role as a television analyst for the
Toronto Raptors since their 1995 inception.
Meanwhile, Jamie
LAWSON, a native Texan raised in Memphis, was
growing up the antithesis of a demure southern belle. "I was
very feminine and a pretty little girl, but into sports and competitive,"
she says. "I was upset I was born a girl and really wanted to
be a quarterback."
As a child, she parked in front of her black-and-white television,
captivated by any and every sport, and soon became a trivia buff.
At university, her associate degree in biology had her dreaming
of sports medicine, but a successful dalliance in modelling led
her to recruitment management.
When a mutual friend introduced the pair at Ms.
LAWSON's alma
mater, the University of North Carolina, at a 2001 charity basketball
game, their encounter was definitely a three pointer. "We hit
it off and went for dinner," she says, and it was she who took
Mr. RAUTINS's number. Her 2 a.m. call to his hotel later that
evening had them chatting for four hours. "We started talking
about basketball, and I think I won him over at that point because
I knew more about college basketball than he did, because the
National Basketball Association schedule took so much of his
time," she laughs.
Ms. LAWSON was emerging from a disastrous relationship when they
met, and Mr.
RAUTINS was grappling with a divorce. "Neither one
of us was remotely interested in having a relationship," he says,
"but there was something there, and we became good Friends."
Three weeks later, the tug of attraction, reinforced by a flurry
of phone calls, had a glowing Ms.
LAWSON jetting to Toronto.
"Leo was there for me through a very tough time, and I was there
for him," she says. "It didn't take long to realize that we were
soul mates and meant for each other."
Mr. RAUTINS's celeb status has deflected the spotlight from the
fetching Ms.
LAWSON. "
I've▼ never been with a man who, when we
enter a room, gets more attention than I do," she chuckles. "It's
amusing and a relief. People come up, say hi and turn completely
from me."
Scarcely a year after they met, Ms.
LAWSON was confident enough
in the tenure of their relationship to purchase a Toronto condo
as her base and the couple's time alternated between their residences
here and
in Syracuse, where Mr.
RAUTINS's children live.
"There are no secrets. She knows absolutely everything about
me and vice versa. Those small white lies to avoid problems are
not part of our relationship," Mr.
RAUTINS, 45, says. His children,
20-year-old Michael, Andrew, 16, Jay 14, and five-year-old Sammy
welcomed Ms.
LAWSON as part of their team. "They have extended
themselves to me and opened their hearts," says Ms.
LAWSON, cognizant
that she was "marrying the family."
The couple's journey toward marriage was influenced by the mystique
of black swans they saw together on a visit to a jungle zoo in
Elmvale, Ontario, near Barrie. The swans, which mate for life
in secure family units, embody the commitment that touched a
chord for the pair and provided their wedding theme. The date
for their nuptials, February 19, was scheduled during the National
Basketball▼
Association▼ all-star break to accommodate Mr.
RAUTINS's
telecast schedule.
The bridesmaids in black and the best men -- all the bridegroom's
sons -- waited at The Westin Harbour Castle hotel as the couple
approached together on an aisle runner decorated with black swans.
The 5-foot, 7-inch bride, in a bias-cut black silk gown backed
by a subtle train, and her 6-foot, 8-inch bridegroom, in a black
tuxedo and black silk T-shirt, exchanged personal vows in front
of Reverend Bob
HOLMES before an intimate gathering of 60 guests.
At the cocktail reception following, confections by 12 Ohh!cakesions
of two black swans and two basketballs bearing the University
of North Carolina and the University of Syracuse logos, respectively,
continued their theme.
Mrs. LAWSON
RAUTINS, 33, has embraced her new vocation as homemaker
to her husband, the boys, and one-year-old Kujo, their boxer
puppy. Mr.
RAUTINS has been named head coach of the senior men's
Canadian national basketball team, which will begin competition
this summer. If the Canadian team has the resolution of Team
RAUTINS, possibilities abound.
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Jamie LAWSON and Leo
RAUTINS -- Match:
By Judith TENENBAUM,
Saturday,▲
April▲ 30, 2005, Page M6
Lyricist Carl Sigman's 1950s classic line, "Many a tear has to
fall, but it's all in the game," could have been Jamie
LAWSON
and Leo RAUTINS's theme song until the two met and their romance
became a slam dunk.
A basketball phenomenon at St. Michael's College in Toronto,
Mr. RAUTINS was inducted into the Canadian Basketball Hall of
Fame and played 10 years for Canada's national team. He starred
with the Syracuse University Orangemen and was a first-round
draft choice of the Philadelphia 76ers, for whom he played in
1983-84. Then, after a brief stint with the Atlanta Hawks, his
professional play was in Europe until 1992. A career switch to
broadcasting led to his role as a television analyst for the
Toronto Raptors since their 1995 inception.
Meanwhile, Jamie
LAWSON, a native Texan raised in Memphis, was
growing up the antithesis of a demure southern belle. "I was
very feminine and a pretty little girl, but into sports and competitive,"
she says. "I was upset I was born a girl and really wanted to
be a quarterback."
As a child, she parked in front of her black-and-white television,
captivated by any and every sport, and soon became a trivia buff.
At university, her associate degree in biology had her dreaming
of sports medicine, but a successful dalliance in modelling led
her to recruitment management.
When a mutual friend introduced the pair at Ms.
LAWSON's alma
mater, the University of North Carolina, at a 2001 charity basketball
game, their encounter was definitely a three pointer. "We hit
it off and went for dinner," she says, and it was she who took
Mr. RAUTINS's number. Her 2 a.m. call to his hotel later that
evening had them chatting for four hours. "We started talking
about basketball, and I think I won him over at that point because
I knew more about college basketball than he did, because the
National Basketball Association schedule took so much of his
time," she laughs.
Ms. LAWSON was emerging from a disastrous relationship when they
met, and Mr.
RAUTINS was grappling with a divorce. "Neither one
of us was remotely interested in having a relationship," he says,
"but there was something there, and we became good Friends."
Three weeks later, the tug of attraction, reinforced by a flurry
of phone calls, had a glowing Ms.
LAWSON jetting to Toronto.
"Leo was there for me through a very tough time, and I was there
for him," she says. "It didn't take long to realize that we were
soul mates and meant for each other."
Mr. RAUTINS's celeb status has deflected the spotlight from the
fetching Ms.
LAWSON. "
I've▲ never been with a man who, when we
enter a room, gets more attention than I do," she chuckles. "It's
amusing and a relief. People come up, say hi and turn completely
from me."
Scarcely a year after they met, Ms.
LAWSON was confident enough
in the tenure of their relationship to purchase a Toronto condo
as her base and the couple's time alternated between their residences
here and
in Syracuse, where Mr.
RAUTINS's children live.
"There are no secrets. She knows absolutely everything about
me and vice versa. Those small white lies to avoid problems are
not part of our relationship," Mr.
RAUTINS, 45, says. His children,
20-year-old Michael, Andrew, 16, Jay 14, and five-year-old Sammy
welcomed Ms.
LAWSON as part of their team. "They have extended
themselves to me and opened their hearts," says Ms.
LAWSON, cognizant
that she was "marrying the family."
The couple's journey toward marriage was influenced by the mystique
of black swans they saw together on a visit to a jungle zoo in
Elmvale, Ontario, near Barrie. The swans, which mate for life
in secure family units, embody the commitment that touched a
chord for the pair and provided their wedding theme. The date
for their nuptials, February 19, was scheduled during the National
Basketball▲
Association▲ all-star break to accommodate Mr.
RAUTINS's
telecast schedule.
The bridesmaids in black and the best men -- all the bridegroom's
sons -- waited at The Westin Harbour Castle hotel as the couple
approached together on an aisle runner decorated with black swans.
The 5-foot, 7-inch bride, in a bias-cut black silk gown backed
by a subtle train, and her 6-foot, 8-inch bridegroom, in a black
tuxedo and black silk T-shirt, exchanged personal vows in front
of Reverend Bob
HOLMES before an intimate gathering of 60 guests.
At the cocktail reception following, confections by 12 Ohh!cakesions
of two black swans and two basketballs bearing the University
of North Carolina and the University of Syracuse logos, respectively,
continued their theme.
Mrs. LAWSON
RAUTINS, 33, has embraced her new vocation as homemaker
to her husband, the boys, and one-year-old Kujo, their boxer
puppy. Mr.
RAUTINS has been named head coach of the senior men's
Canadian national basketball team, which will begin competition
this summer. If the Canadian team has the resolution of Team
RAUTINS, possibilities abound.
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Michael and Yvonne
MURPHY are pleased to announce the engagement
of their daughter Breeann Renee to Tom
son of Robert and Kathy
LAWSON.
Wedding to take place Summer of 2004.
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Happy 60th Anniversary, Angelo and Nancy
LAZZARO
Love from Frank and Debbie, Joe and Mary, John and Mary and all
their grandchildren, their spouses and many Friends.
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