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From the Sun August 17th

Edmonton people - Peter Lewis, Angus Watt, Peter Johner, Anna Muze, Jim Gibbons, Lucio Gelmini
PEOPLE, PEOPLE, PEOPLE•Peter Lewis is, I believe, the only Fringe vendor to have been at every single Fringe, selling his wife Toti's unique prints. An artist himself (the High Level Bridge waterfall was his baby), ask Peter about his and Toti's involvement with The Tour de France. He can entertain you for hours.•Replacing Allan Bleiken as honourary Alberta consul for the Netherlands is financial advisor Angus Watt. Ambassador Wim Geerts will be in town Sept. 9 to oversee the succession.•Retired and loving it is chef Peter Johner. It's been three years since he sold Packrat Louie to Cory Smith, Jodh Singh and friends. Peter now has a thriving custom-chocolates craft business happening - a one-man operation at certain times of the year - at his Peter Johner's Chocolate Chalet in the country near Devon. Peter's long-time maitre d' Anna Muze has re-invented herself as owner of the excellent west-end Italian eatery Il Forno. •

We mentioned Edmonton's Amber microbrewery (Bub's Lunch Pail Ale, Amber's Pale Ale, the delicious Australian Mountain Pepperberry Lager) the other day. Owner Jim Gibbons is holding the RUAmber contest, inviting slogans, video-clips, anything creative to do with Amber's beers, with prizes and what not. More info ambersbrewing.com.•

Kudos to my friend and joke contributer Lucio Gelmini, head of the chemistry department at Grant MacEwan College. He puts on rip-roarin' chemistry demos for junior and high schools all year, asking for only donations to add to his pledges for the Edmonton Weekend to end Breast Cancer walk that happened earlier this month. Raised over $10,000.