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FOR THE past 10 days, my
sister Pat Johnston and I
were fortunate to be part of a
group of CKNW listeners
sailing the Mexican Riviera
on board Princess Cruise’s
very compact Golden
Princess.

The Golden Princess is 28,000
tons and carries some 800 passun-
gers. We flew from Vancouver to
Los Angeles where — surprise! sur-
prise! — it was raining and cold
and, of all times, [ had come down
with a very bad cold. We boarded
the Golden Princess in San Pedro
about threc that afternoon, and by
that time, the sun had come out. But
it was still very cool with a chilly
wind.

_ We sailed off into the blue chap-
_ py waters at 5 p.m, and after a
quick change of clothes, | hosted all
~ of our hardy 60 travellers at a pri-
vate cocktail party at 5:30. And |
must say that bar manager Ian
Donnelly was very efficient and

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friendly as was Princess’ Liaison
Capt, Mike Carr who was travel-
ling in civies with his pretty wile,
Angela. Their home is in England
but they‘ll be sailing most of the
year on the P&O lines,

It was only a short hour or se
after the reception when thought
that T wasa't going to live atall! We
came back to our roo and that's
when fT realized how much the (oor
and walls were moving and t lett
dreadfully i! f was horribly, horri-
bly seasick!

Thank goodness for my dear sis-
ter or I'd still be crawling around in
the bathroom! She called the doc-
tor. Thad a shot and 1 got better! |
was like ¢ zombie for the first diy
but after that] wasn't bothered one
wit for the rest of the trip.

Interestingly, the trip to the dac-
tor’s office is a standard $25 tee if
you go during his office hours — §
to 10 in the morning, or 5 to 6. at
night.

The key here is to only get sea-
sick between those hours.
Otherwise, the office visit is $50,
the shot that the nurse gives you ix
$8 and the pills for seasickness are
$5 for a total of $63! It seems a bit
high but that night | would have
paid $163 dollars! ...

What a great group we had!
Eager, enthusiastic, energetic. curi-
ous, lively, hungry and very talent-
ed, especiilly Ross and Linda
Lochhead, Neil and Donna Glover
and Jim and Barbara Armstrong.
The creative talents of this sixsome
were put to the test on our final
night when they were onstage enter-
taining the packed audience as
Michael Jackson and the
Temptations! Oooo they were
goad!

The entertainment scoop they’ve
passed on to me was that they flew
home on Sunday to Vancouver with
actor Stacy Keach and his family.

NORTH VANCOUVER’S Manuel and Gilda Quicto relax in the
spacious dining area of the 800-passenger vessel, the Golden

Princess.

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Me, with local actors Lan Trice,
Duncan Fraser and West Van's
Jackson Davies... Atour table in
the ship's spacious dining room
were Victoria's Anita and fell
Scadden, Delta's Naney and
Leander Sonnenberg and
KRerriscitie's Lillian and Jack
Hornibrook.

And whenever | desperiely
needed assistance of any sort there
was amiable Jerry Ekholra and his
pert wife, Marey, North Van's
Manuel and Gilda Quieto aud
West Van's Lorna Anderson and
Val Blanchard, [was a wondertul
trip! Can't wait to go back!

On Tuesday former solicitor
general Russ Fraser celebrated an
auspicious occasion.

it was his 60th birthday and wife
Jone tet the world know by having
a huge neon sign parked on the dri-
veway of their home wishing him
ali the best.

At the Ramada Hotel on
Broadway just prior to leaving on
my cruise a very happy group gath-
ered to sing Happy Birthday to one
of the best in sports communica-
tions. Greg Douglas, also known as
“Dr. Sport,” was celebrating his
first half-century. Candle City!
Some of those helping to blow out
the flames were publisher Peter
Lepge, PR man Bruce Legree.
hotelier Wendy Lisogar, The
Track’s Brian Pound. sports’ Jim
Coleman and the birthday boy's
ever-loving Dee Webster. Happy
50th. Greggie...

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photos just after they arrived in the
hotel lobby. Wednesday they were
off to Whistler for the World Cup
Competition which started this
weekend, ... Cheers!

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JERRY AND Marcy Ekholm take time for a snapshot during
their recent sun-drenched cruise aboard the Princess Cruise's

Golden Princess,

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VANCOUVER’S MR.Sport, Greg Douglas, is flanked by hotelier
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