Active in charity work, he is chairman of next year's Juvenile Diabetes Foundation dinner and on the honorary committee
of Reach for the Rainbow. One of his daughters is a student at the National Ballet School.
All three organizations will be among the beneficiaries of a 90-yacht sailpast in Toronto Harbour that he has organized
for Canada Day.
Second World War aircraft will perform at 6:15 p.m. as part of the harbour celebration and then there will be a reception
on board the flagship. A 31-piece band will be at the dock to welcome guests on board. Trumpeters on board 10 charter
vessels will sound a 60-second salute.
Also present will be a 16-man guard of honour in 1812 uniforms, six RCMP officers in red coats and gold-helmeted OPP
officers on white motorcycles.
Guests of honour who have purchased either tickets at $1,000 a couple or corporate tables at $4,000 each include Senator
Trevor Eyton and his wife Jane; retiring Imperial Oil chairman Arden Haynes and his wife Beverly; Coca-Cola president
Neville Kirchmann and his wife Edith; John Labatt Ltd. president Sid Oland and his wife Ingrid; CIBC chairman Al Flood
and his wife Rolande; restauarateur John Bitove and his wife Dotsa; and Shoppers Drug Mart chairman David Bloom and his
wife Molly.
After partaking of a sumptuous repast on board and watching a fireworks display by Harbourfront Centre, the guests,
including federal Revenue Minister Otto Jelinek and Toronto Mayor June Rowlands, will be asked to sign a unity book.
The same evening in the harbour on barges just off Ontario Place the second night of an international fireworks display
is scheduled. Sponsored by Benson and Hedges, the sixth annual Festival of Fire is to be launched on June 27 and
continues July 1, July 4, July 8 and July 11.
This year, the competitors are Hong Kong, Italy, Spain and the United States. People start heading down to Ontario Place
in late afternoon for these shows.
The fireworks don't start until dark, about 10 p.m.
Beforehand, special guests such as Ed and Ann Mirvish, Peter Herrndorf and Eva Czigler, Gordon Pinsent and Charmion King
will be picked up by a boat at the Admiral-Radisson Hotel and ferried to a tent to dine and watch the fireworks display.
This is one of the few fireworks displays to be accompanied by music "Once you've seen it with music, it spoils you,"
says producer Marlene Smith, who is chairwoman of the jury.
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