DO. YOU know when your driver’s licence expires? Bet you don’t, which could be an expensive oversight the next TRAVEL time you are invited to flourish it. Perhaps more importantly, do you know when your passport ex- pires? A vacation could be wreck- ed if you get to the airport and discever your passport has run oui. You could even be turned back at a foreign destination. A Canadian passport is valid for five years and cannot be renewed. But getting a new one is not difficult nor time-consuming if you go about it the right way, Pick up an application form at a neighborhood post office, but be sure you get the right one. They come in both official lan- guages and in adult and child categorics. You then need two photographs with a stamp on the back showing name and address of the photographer and the date. Simplest way is to visit a camera store. In my case I picked up a form at the Shoppers Drug Mart outlet “at West 4ist and Yew, then cross- ed the street and had my pictures taken at Kerrisdale Cameras. Both steps took a total of less than 15 minutes. You then fiil out the form and have one photograph signed by a guarantor who has known you for two years. NORTH SHORE VENTURE TRAVEL May 13 to 19 - 6 nighis from 64 he pp/dbl. + Fly to Reno _ 3 nights in Reno — Sands Regancy Hotel 3 nights cruise to Vancouver ’ aboard the SKY. PRINCESS ‘LAS VEGAS a ey 1 to 8 - 7nights “trom §749°° ppldbl Fly to Las Vegas ~ S nights in Las Vegas . 7 Hacienda Hotel “3 nights cruise to Vancouver “aboard the STAR PRINCESS | PALM SPRINGS 2 Mey 01 to G4 gains lo from 839 pp/dbl. : Fly to Palm Springs” 4 nights in Palm Springs --Paim Springs Hilton 3 nights cruise to Vancouver aboard the STAR PRINCESS SAN FRANCISCO | May 15 to 19 - 4 nights from 555 8° pp/dbi, Fly to SAN FRANCISCO 33" 2 nights in San Francisco — Lombard Hote! 2 nights cruise to Vancouver aboard the SKY PRINCESS LOS ANGELES DISNEYLAND: May 03 to 08 - 5 nights from *$8 8 pial , Fly to Los Angeles 2 nights in Anaheim ~ Holiday nn Maingate nights cruise to Vancouver aboard the STAR PRINCESS “SAN DIEGO. “May 14 to 20-6 nights | ‘from *S 5 7° pid, Fly to San Diego 3 nights in San Diego ~ Holiday Inn Harbour 4 nights cruise to Vancouver -. aboard the REQAL PRINCESS Pavicd Wishart TRAVEL TIPS The passport office offers a wide selection of guarantors such as police officers, school prin- cipais and notaries, and it’s inter- esting that there’s a notation that the list “is not a recognition or endorsement of professional status or superior qualifications.’ ~ No fee can be charged by a Lyyysiuies passport can ruin guarantor. Whar you need now is your old passport, proof of citizenship and $35. Take the lot and send them to Ottawa, or visit the Sinclair Centre downtown. But not any old time. Avoid 10.30 a.m. to 2.30 p.m, daily. This is- when most peopie - come and despite heroic efforts by the staff, long waits are sometimes unavoidable. It’s also busy when the office first opens at 7.30 a.m. Best times are 8.30 a.m. to 9.30 a.m. and 3.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. Your agent, who is supposed to know better, bowled into the passport office to find a scene resembling the last Might out of Saigon. | picked number 61 from the ticket dispenser and noted helplessly that the number being served was 36. But help was at hand in the formidable but kindly presence of a commissionaire called Stewart, who was able to advise me that | certainly had time to go back downstairs for a coffee. I repaired to the lower ground level, where there is a wide selec- tion of places to have a coffee and much more. Public washrooms are also located here. they tHE, LHe ee vacation When | went up later Stewart was helping out an old nian and his son, Neither seemed to have a lot of was patiently See «tll paze 28 RA Blood Donors Urgently Needed English, but he hn RED CROSS BLOOD DONOR CLINIC Lions Gate Haspital 200 E. 15th St. Medical Day Centre Gymnasium ~~ Monday, January 11 2:30-8:60pm Tuesday, January 12 2:30-8:00pm Andy Fraser's presentation of his personally escorted tour of June 9 to "NORTH ENGLAND & WALES SUNDAY, JAN, 24 at 2:00 p.m. International Plaza 1999 Marine Dr., North Vancouver (Marine Dr. & Capilano Rd.) RSVP 926- 4344 ‘Diabetes [at sitet ttt ¢ AnerAwt | Please Volunteer Cali 732-4334 or 1-800-665-6526 CAmeDIAN | ASSOCIATION Omamctes ( CANAD ne association | Dy Dane tt