Rebel billionaire and Virigin megacorp's own Sir Richard Branson literally flew into town last Monday as he kite-surfed into Squamish to hype his new Virgin Mobile division here in Canada. Later that night, a special VIP-invite only cocktail reception was held at Lift restaurant where guests met his all-girl X-treme athletic team and discussed his new suborbital space division - Virgin Galactic. X-treme wannabes can apply onliine to join the team at <www.virgin.com/mobile/xtreme>
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Lift restaurant got some help from Monk McQueen's staff as they served guests on the rooftop patio. From left: GM Robin Apel, chef Morgan Harlos, Kim Lin, head chef (and former West Van man) Jeff Batt and manager Steve Henderson. |
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Sir Richard Branson and West Van's Craig Turner discussed Virgin's early music days back in Manchester. |
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The affable Andrew Black, CEO of Virgin Mobile Canada, was introduced to CTV's newest weekend weather girl, Karen Khunkhun (left), and Urban Rush host Fiona Forbes. |
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Western Canada regiional manager Zahir Khoja (left) welcomed "retail therapist" Peter Furnish, friend David McInerney and main marketing man Nathan Rosenberg to Vancouver. |
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Sir Richard thanks the crowd for attending. |
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Sir Richard Branson, who plans on taking people into space in 2007 with Virgin Galactic, gets ready to pop the champagne. |
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To Sir with love - Richard Branson poses with the girls of his new extreme athlete team which Virgin Mobile will sponsor in surfing, snowboarding and skateboarding. |
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Vancouver Virgin rep Rich Watters raised a glass to the occasion with Kristina Buczacky (left) and Ashley Holt. |
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