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Tickets available at the Humanities Theatre Box Office (885â€"4280) and all other BASS outlets. Hours: Monday to Friday, 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.. Saturday, i p.m. to 5:00 p.m. um From Escondido, we drove down the six lane highway #15 to San Diego. This is one of the cleanest cities I have ever seen. It is the Pacific headquarters for the U.S. Navy and the harbour was full of battleships and submarines. We stayed at a Holiday Inn on the waterfront but we never got used to the planes taking off next door at the International airport. Thank goodness they stopped from 11 p.m. till 7 a.m. They have a world famous zoo but we enjoyed the planetarium that took you on a tour of the hemisphere solar system. The same sphere was featured at Vancouver‘s Expo ‘86. Being on the ocean, seafood is the specialty of the house. Anthony‘s Restaurant serves seafood to 2,000 customers at one sitting. The temperature was a pleasant 75F â€" ideal for sightâ€"seeing. We then motored to Los Angeles to see the "Rose Bow!" parade in the suburb of Pasadena. The parade starts sharply at 8 a.m. on New Year‘s Day and we found the media parking lot with just minutes to spare. Since the evenings are very mild, it has become a New Year‘s Eve tradition for thousands of locals to "camp out" on the sidewalks the night before the parade. They come with old sofas, sleeping bags, tents, and leave many of them there for the city garbage department to pick up immediately after the parade. All the floats must be covered in fresh flowers. The floats are prepared with hundreds of small holes and the night before the parade, thousands of college students are hired to fill the holes with small vials of flowers that are colorâ€"coded. While in L.A., we stayed at the new Marriott Hotel in Torrance within a 15 minute drive to the airport and home. pleasant 85F. This is the winter home of the film stars and many of the streets are named after them such as Frank Sinatra Blvd. etc. As you drive downtown, you pass Bob Hope‘s domeâ€"like mansion perched a couple of thousand feet onhfiopofnhill.hlmSpringsisctq:pdmg‘ to Cathedral City, Rancho Mirage, Palm Desert, and La Quinta. There is a variety of motels from $50 to $150 a day. The area is saturated with golf courses and we were impressed with the tennis facilities at Rancho Mirage Hotel (headquarters for the Bob Hope Classic). Palm Springs, we headed over the mountains towards Escondido where we were to stay as guests of Lawrence Welk. I found‘these mountainous roads much easier than driving through the Rockies routes such as Rogers Pass. There was no snow and the temperature was a mild 70F. The famous band leader has a magnificent hotelâ€"restaurantâ€"theatre complex where the prices are reasonable and the decor is excellent. Welk now lives in Santa Monica but visits the Escondido spread once a month. There are several bronze statues of Lawrence on the property and a museum in the theatre with artifacts of his earlier days in the band business. Each evening, a musical show in the theatre features many of his old TV performers. New Year‘s Eve brings bus loads of faithful fans to a dinner party at the restaurant. Palm mcm IKf you are looking for a Christmas holi with a difference, then we suggest you take the circle tour of Southern California. We filew into Palm Springs just after Christmas where the temperature was a We rented a car at the airport and after a couple of days in with Ted Rooney 10 W _ The pageant is planned as a public awareness project and admission is free. Bleachers will be supplied by the Park for limited seating, as well Chronicle Special Plan a memorable Christmas for the family by attending Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo‘s first Outdoor Nativity Pageant. The pageant, held in an alcove of Waterloo Park, will be presented December 23 and 24. Scheduled performances begin at 6 p.m. each evening and will run 20 minutes apart four times consecutively concluding at 7:20 p.m. Between performances the audience will have the opportunity to pet the animals and talk with cast members. The pageant is a 12â€"minute production that reâ€" enacts the events surrounding the birth of the Saviour from Gabriel‘s initial visit to Mary to the visit of the Magi, presented by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterâ€"Day Saints. The production is patterned after pageants held across Canada and the U.S. and specifically, the script and audio tape are the same as is used in Kingston, Ont., where they have successfully held its Outdoor Nativity Pageant for the past 10 Outdoor Nativity Pageant a Kâ€"W Christmas first eRA VEA : 1 s ute 4ss aba ola‘e : cvart alg Â¥ .0 % v w 9 00 Y t CCXXX NXYXEXXXNENXXXY WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 25, 1987 â€" PAGE Bi This production is supported by over 100 church members and with the cooperation and enthusiasm of the Waterloo Park and other local businesses who are contributing with supplies and A presentation of the pageant will be held Dec. 22 prior to the public performances for special groups including homes for the elderly and the disabled. For any hearing disabled, there will be an interpreter that evening. Anyone interested in attending this evening as a group and has not already been invited, please ontact Susan Neal at 886â€"6471. as concession from the park will be available for hot chocolate. Entrance to the pageant will be from Seagram Rd. where parking is available. Parking guides will be there to direct. Particulars of the pageant include over 20 cast members with men, women, children, and, of course, babies to play the infant Jesus. Another highlight will be a cast of live animals to help authenticate the feeling of the first Christmas. Also, a 55â€"foot set is presently being assembled by a building crew at a local business who donated their woodworking facilities. Â¥ 9/Â¥ “v"v‘v1 i‘ weo‘s \’ 0'0‘0 a + stuff at Stages nightclub W,ngmflng_bggnsof loyal Winter fans and newcomâ€" ers to the fold. BLUES MAGIC inter 4 885â€"4280 Scott Gardner photo