TRAVEL TO AID LIBRARY FUND SPRING, FALL TRIPS BOOKED.Byline: Daily News PALMDALE - To raise money, the Friends of the Palmdale City Library will sponsor two trips in 2003. The group will meet at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the youth library to discuss the trips. The first, starting May 12, will be a five-day, six-meal airplane trip from Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. to Branson, Mo. The price, including round-trip fare and hotel transportation, will be $1,149 for a person wanting a room alone at the Branson Towers; $999 each for two people per room and $979 per person with triple occupancy. The group will go to the Shoji shoji In Japanese architecture, sliding partition doors and windows made of a latticework wooden frame and covered with a tough, translucent white paper. When closed, they softly diffuse light throughout the house. Tabuchi show, the Blue Velvet Theatre and a dinner show aboard the Branson Belle, an 1890s paddle-wheel boat, on Table Rock Lake Table Rock Lake is a manmade lake in The Ozarks of southern Missouri and northwestern Arkansas. It is impounded by Table Rock Dam constructed in 1954-1958 on the White River by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. . On the second trip, the group will fly from Los Angeles to Vancouver, British Columbia British Columbia, province (2001 pop. 3,907,738), 366,255 sq mi (948,600 sq km), including 6,976 sq mi (18,068 sq km) of water surface, W Canada. Geography , Oct. 7, for a train tour of the Canadian Rockies. Before the train tour, the group will sightsee sight·see intr.v. sight·saw , sight·seen , sight·see·ing, sight·sees To tour sights of interest. sight in Vancouver and have a special dinner at the city's Aquarium Marine Science Center. The price including air and train fare for the nine-day, 14-meal trip is $2,649 with one per room and $2,199 each for two per room. The Friends of the Library will receive 10 percent on each trip to help support the Palmdale libraries. Eric Shephard of Collette Vacations will show slides about the trips at the meeting Wednesday. Fliers and trip itineraries are available at both Palmdale libraries. For information, call (661) 538-0349. |
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