6 ~ Friday, August 19, 1988 - North Shore News INSIGHTS SEW! Ga G at prices for everyone! the Royal Princess, there's still time (though not much!) to join the West Van Cancer Saciety ng atinat LUNCH WITH A PRINCESS is one of the local media’s regular summer dates — her hope being that they’Il sing about her later. That’s not too difficult in the case of last week’s hostess. To call the huge 45,000 ton Royal Princess, flagship of the Princess fleet cruising to Alaska during the summer months, a floating city does her less than justice. A floating foretaste of heaven for well-heeled hedonists would be nearer the mark. Just a few of the lady’s vital statistics tell the story. All 600 suites and staterooms have outside picture windows and over a quarter of them private balconies. If you’re slumming, you'll have to get by with twin beds, sitling area, shower and bath, fridge, phone, multi-channel music, color TV and individual air conditioning. If money’s no ob- ject, you also get the balcony, a separate sitting room and numerous additional goodies. Democratically open to everyone are the elegant 616-seat dining room serving sinful six-course feasts, two lounge bars (with nightly Broadway-type shows), a night club and a casino. Add to that a theatre, card lounge, library, video arcade, beauty salon, gym, three-pool sun lido and cafeteria. For hikers three and a half laps around the deck add up to one mile. And if all this lays you low with exhaustion, there’s a five- ward hospital with two doctors. Fascinating for technically- minded types is the state-of-the-art electronic bridge equipment, which enables the massive vessel to dock without tugs. If you have to ask the price of all this, you know the proverbial answer — but we’ll whisper the figures 10 you anyway. The cheapest stateroom plus all food sets you back around $250 per head per day for the 10-day Alaska cruise, If you go first class, make that as high as $800 a head in the peak season. Sadly, however, you can forget about this particular temptation. The Royal Princess moves to Europe shortly to work the Mediterranean and Baltic — so for the moment you'll at least save the cost of a post-cruise slimming course! GRACIOUS LIVING afloat, however, doesn't necessarily mean a 45,000 ton cruise liner — as a dozen North Shore water en- thusiasts learned one evening last week by taking part in a novel North Van Rec Centre program. They collected gourmet dinners prepared by Chefi’s Restaurant in Deep Cove, packed them aboard canoes provided by ingrid Baxter’s Deep Cove Canoe Rentals, receiv- ed a crash course on the beach on handling their craft, then paddled across the inlet to enjoy the feast on Raccoon Island, one of two ex- plored before heading back to the Cove. What neat in summer fun brainwaves from NVRC? Pancake breakfasts.on water-skis? Meanwhile, for a taste of gracious living afloat that comes nicely halfway between canoes and Lifeboat 8.0.8. T SHOULD be up te the provincial government, not the RCMP, to resolve the continuing B.C. Lifeboat Society (BCLS)-Norih Shore Lifeboat Unit's elegant moonlight dinner cruise next Tuesday, Aug. 23, aboard the Malibu Princess. To grab limited remaining tickets which also bring you a $50 income tax deduction — call 925-1952 or 926-4807. Like today! eke WRAP UP: The closely-knit retiree community at Capilano Mobile Park threw a double cele- bration party Tuesday in the park's recreation hall, hosted by their New Horizons Club president Gordon Patterson and directors, and attended by some 80 past and present residents. {1 marked the 15th anniversary of the sod-turning for the hall — focal point of the park-dwellers’ many communal activities — and, among other salutes, brought a congratulatory telegram from fedcral Health Minister Jake Epp. As well, it also happencd to be the 20th birthday of the mobile park itself ... Back from a leadership and management seminar in Hamilton, New York, is recent Hillside grad Gregory Brawner. The West Van student was awarded a scholarship to at- tend the course under the ‘‘Opera- tion Enterprise’? program of the American Management Associa- tion ... Congrats to Janice Silver, promotion whiz-lady of the North Shore News, and hubby Oliver on their firstborn ~ 8Ib 40z Alex- ander Leonard Nathaniel ... And bouquets today, Aug. 19, to North Van birthday girl Jennifer Disher. Photo submitted SIZE ISN’T EVERYTHING!...Above, the Royal Princess with a 616- seat gourmet dining room; below, West Van’s Ashton and Marilyn Muilan with a gourmet dinner served on their canoe. kak WRIGHT OR WRONG: If aiming for the top, write your own pay cheque every day. $9 Ca anand Society (NSLS) battle over the use of a $30,000 rescue craft before public confidence in both socicties is per- manently sunk. The provincial finance ministry has just finished in- vesting $70,000 in its investigation of the dispute. The investigation found, among other things, that BCLS president Horst Klein, who currently has the boat at his Pender island home base, ‘‘acted in a manner con- trary to the public interest’? by taking the boat. But despite the findings and the iavestigation’s cost, the provincial government has chosen tu jeave the two parties where they were prior to the investigation: wrangling over the boat’s fate. So the NSLS has now turned to the RCMP for help. Klein claims the boat is the property of the provin- cial society and not for the exclusive use of the NSLS. But monies for the boat were raised through a North Shore campaign, and a $15,000 B.C. Lottery Fund grant was secured by West Vancouver-Howe Sound MLA John Reynolds to purchase the boat so thai it could be based in West Vancouver. Finance Minister Mel Couvelier has said no criminal action was uncevered in his ministry’s investigation, but obvious wrong-doing was uncovered and until the family feud is resolved both societies will continue to suffer the distrust of a public whose support is vital to the continuing good health of both. 980-0511 986-6222 985-2131 986-1337 986-1337 985-3227 Display Advertising Classitied Advertising Newsroom Bistribution Subscriptions Publisher Peter Speck Managing Editor Barrett Fisher Associate Editor Noel Wright Advertising Director Linda Stewart North Shore News, founded in 1064 as an indepencent suburban newspaper and quaied under Schedule {11 Pasagaph Wt of the Feeme Tax Act, is pubbshed ec n Wednesday, Friday anc Sunday by Norn Shore F Press Lid and aetna to every door on the Shore. 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