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‘Locals missing out on’ Vancouver's beauty

“WE BOAST that we’ve got one of. the world’s most. beautiful waterfront settings, but most Vancouverites. have never seen their “city from’ the water,’’ ex- plains: Graham Clarke, president of: 80-year old’ Harbour Ferries, the family-owned charter com- pany offering harbor tours.

“Frankly, 1 think our visitors

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see more of Vancouver’s water- front than the locals do,’’ Clarke said. ‘They make the effort to get out and explore while the rest of us tend to take it all for granted.”’ Pointing to some of the ‘‘color commentary”? on the 90-minute tour aboard the authentic pad- dlewheeler. MPV Constitution, Clarke questioned: whether most

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Departure from Vancouver November 27, 1993 . Price inctudes airfare by Japan Aviines, hote!

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L.A. passport is good for

more than 100 arts venues

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property-wide name for the 55 acres around the ship, to which admission is free.

You can have lunch on-board at Sir Winston's and get married at The Queen Mary royal wedding chapel.

Long Beach lives up to its name with more than five miles of sandy beaches. © Palm Desert is experimenting with golf carts on city streets.

@ The Naval Air Weapons Sta- tion in China Lake has exhibits on 40 years of naval history ranging from the Bat — the word's first operational homing missifze used in the final days of the Second World War — to weapons used in the Gulf War. It’s at Ridgecrest.

© The only water-powered foun- dry in the country Knight & Co. of Sutter Creek is now open to the public while continuing to turn out cast iron pieces.

@® Los Angeles has an Arts Pass- port good for more than 100 venues.

® NBC Studios in Burbank are doing tours again. Once an hour, Monday to Friday, visitors are taken to the studio where The To- night Show is taped, on the way visiting the make-up, wardrobe and hair departments.

people would know how Coal Harbour got its name, or that the West End Manhattan in density.

“For a city that’s involved with its setting i'm: always amazed when [hear from people that they’ve lived here all their lives, but never seen Vancouver. from the sea,”’ Clarke said.

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44 Long Beach lives up to its name

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@ The 240-room Mission [nn at Riverside is open again after renovations.

@ The San Diego Wild Animal Park has acquired 18 carmine bee-eating birds for the Congo aviary.

has fast action, bright lights and sharp turns, all te ’50s and.’60s tunes.

Sounds like Caiiforaia.

Cruise from the Caribbean to Spain’s Costa Del Sol aboard the elegant 7 CROWN ODYSSEY April 4, 1994 —12 days - . From USD 52799" per person: including airfare _ Cruise ‘Night... Tues. Oct.'5,7:30. pm Hotel Vancowver. . * Tickets - $2.00

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‘Woolco / ‘Sears / *Eatons "Capers / ‘Cloverdale Paint *a&b Sound / The Bay / Kohler

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*Zellers / ‘IGA Plus / *London Drugs | “Real Canadian Superstore /*SuperVaiu Safeway / Shoppers Drug Mart Save-On-Foods

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@ Santa Cruz beach boardwalk’s new thrill ride is Wipeout, which