Bé CASTLEGAR NEWS, December 23, 1981

Christmas shared with Poles

BURNABY (CP) — Maria
and Kirstejn Christensen feel
they've just adopted five new
sons in time for Christmas.

In the bright, plant-filled
living room of the family's
spacious home in this Van-
couver suburb, five Polish
seamen sit quietly adjusting
to the enormity of their de-
cision to stay in Canada and
possibly never see their fam-
ilies, friends or homeland
again.

The Christensens are
among a number of families
who have offered accommo-
dation and assistance to Po-
lish sailors who have elected
to say in Canada.

“I felt I should do some-
thing for Poland,” said Po-
lish-born Mrs. Christensen,
who was so moved by news
stories about the latest
events in her homeland that
she decided to offer the fam-
ily’s two empty bedrooms to
the seamen.

But after she brought two
home from the rundown
house near the Polish Com-
munity Centre where they
were staying, she had to re-
turn to the house on an
errand and saw two more

who looked so sad, lonely and
lost that she couldn't resist.
“The place they were liv-
ing in was so terrible they
would have gone crazy if they
had stayed there,” she said.
“I couldn't leave them there.”
PHONED DAUGHTER
“So I phoned my

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daughter Ursula Cempel, 31,
also divorced with a five-

year-old daughter Casey.
“But when I met them and
saw the look of desperation in
their eyes, I knew I wanted
to help. I have so much and
they have so little — it’s just
ity. It’s Ch and

and asked if she would take
these two.”

But when she went back to
the house to pick them up,
she got the identities mixed
up and told a sailor she'd
never seen before to pack up
his things. When she realized
her mistake and told him he
couldn't come after all, she
said, there were tears in his
eyes and once again she
couldn't resist.

“When I phoned my other
daughter, she was a little
concerned because she lives
along with just her child. But
I told her I knew he'd be OK,
I promised there would be no
problems, so we broght him
too,”

The final count was two at
the Christensen family home;
two with daughter Christine
Warner, 25, who is divorced
and has a 72-year-old daugh-
ter Allyson; and one with

you can’t see people hungry
and lonely at this time of
year.” :

JUMPED AT CHANCE

Ursula’s sister Christine,
charmed by a previous ac-
quaintance with a Polish cou-
sin, “jumped at the chance”
of meeting more people from
her mother's homeland.

“All they need is a roof
over their head and some
tender loving care,” she said.

She said her boyfriend who

happens to be German, is
supporting her “all the way.”

The Christiansens always
have a lot of people around
for Christmas, so the seamen
will only mean there are 25
for Christmas dinner instead
of 20, Maria said.

On Friday night, the Chris-
tensen’s home was bursting
at the seams with relatives,

visitors,
and pets.

“They are not a burden,
we are glad to help them,”
said Maria, the family inter-
preter because she is the only
one who is fluent in Polish,
+ “I told the guys they are
part of the family. I already
order them around just like
my own sons,”

children, seamen

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Money for sex-change

TORONTO (CP) —
King decided the sale i way

he could raise enough >

money to complete his
sex-change operation was
to defraud-banks, but his
love of fine clothes helped
trap him.

The 29-year-old Cyprian,
also known as Sabrina,
pleaded guilty this week to

more than a dozen counts
of fraud involving four
banks and more than
$8,000 in the first three
months: of 1981.

King would obtain some-
one’s account number and
bank branch,
cheque, deposit part of it
and withdraw the rest,
then go on a buying spree.

forge a.

Among those defrauded,
Bally Canada Inc. lost a
pair of high-heeled purple
suede shows’ worth $180,
L'Elegante Ltd. lost cloth-
ing worth $1,174 and Holt
Renfrew was defrauded of
$120 in feminine fashions,

County Judge John Gil-
bert sentenced him to pen-
itentiary for 30 months.

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LONDON (CP) — The
British capital is getting
smaller, at least from a popu-
lation standpoint. Prelimin-
ary results of the 1981 census
show that in the last decade
half a million people left inner
London in favor of the quiet
life in Britain's villages.

Talking tree aids boy

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A
little boy’s speech problems
that improved significantly
and his teacher attributes the
change to a talking Christ-
mas tree used by a depart-
mnt store to entertain young-
sters.

Duane Ross “usually talks
with just a single word,
usually not a lot of sen-
tences,” teacher Kathy Kas-

r said.

“But the tree talked back
to him and he really got ex-
cited. He's been talking in
whole sentences ever since.

He's done it before, but it
hasn't been a constant thing.”
Duane, 10, is the son of
Allen and Pat Ross of neigh-
boring Moorhead, Minn. He
was one of four mentally
handicapped children who
visited the tree with Kasper
last year at the Dayton
department store here.
Employees take turns ani-
mating the tree with hidden
microphones and speakers.
“For a long time, we've
told Duane that trees, motor-
cycles, lawnmowers — those
things he takes an interest in

Pregnant dolls

now on

TALLAHASSEE, FLA.
(AP) — Natalie doesn’t walk,
talk or wet like a lot of other
dolls on the ,market (these
days. She gives birth.

The pregnant-doll business
began five years ago when a
friend of freelance artist Jan
Alovus, 35, was expecting
her second child.

Alovus took a heavy sock
and colored yarn to sew a
pregnant monkey doll, which
had a baby monkey inside
that could be “delivered.”

market

The idea caught on, and
now Natalie is available for
$22.

when we're out shopping —
don’t talk,” Kasper said.
TREE TALKS BACK

But she said he got excited
when he said “Hi” to the tree
and it came back with
“What's your name?”

“Name Duane,” he res-
ponded in his usual fashion
but then added: “What are
you doing here, tree?”

“Talking to you,”
the tree in the voice of Sindy
Olson, 23, of Finley, N.D., a
part-time employee with a
degree in elementary edu-
cation.

Kaspter said Duane’s ex-
citement continued through a
spontaneous conversation of
four to five minutes.

“He just responded to the
tree. I've worked with him
for four months. It was real
spontaneous. He just kept on

ing.”

The December issue of Ms. talking.

Magazine recommends the
doll as a toy, but the inventor
suggests the fabric dolls are
not for fun but to educate.
Natalie comes complete with
breasts and black lines to
represent pubic hair.

Alovus also offers a Natalie
that can deliver by caesarean
section.

On Tuesday, the boy was
asked whether he remem-
bered the tree.

“Just me and Kasper,” he
replied, meshing his fingers
with hers.

‘Me’ " his teacher said.
“He wasn't using that word
earlier this fall. Now he is.

“We look at little steps.
They are the big ones for us.”

Ship crushed by ice

CALGARY (CP) — Six
Calgarians were among those
plucked from a sinking ship
crushed by ice in the An-
tarctic Friday.

The six included four heli-
copter pilots and two engin-
eers employed by Calgary-
based Liftair International
Ltd.

“They were trying to get
to the Antarctic,” said Peter
McLeish, chief pilot for Lift-
air International.

“They were sailing down
and for some reason ... ran
into a pressure region and
the ship sunk.”

The men’s names are not
being released by company
officials until their families
have been notified.

The six were flying five
helicopters for a research
team aboard the West Ger-
man research ship Gotland II.

The ship, a 91-metre-long
4,400-tonne vessel with an
ice-strengthened hull, left
Wellington, New Zealand, for
the Antarctic Nov. 14.

It carried a crew of 17, as
well as a 25-man scientific
team.

PROVIDE
TRANSPORTATION
The Calgarians were

ficials have yet to learn

. themselves exactly where

their employees are now.

All the information of them
has come in bits and pieces
by Telex, he said.

“We're assuming a whole
lot.”

A U.S. field station in the
area picked up distress sig-
nals from the vessel and re-
layed them to a

U.S. deep-freeze expedition
in the Antarctic.

The ship's situation had
not been regarded as serious
until three days ago when
pressure from the ice in-
creased damage to its hull
and it began to list.

McLeish said the crew may
have left the helicopters be-
hind in Yule dat and flown to

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transportation for the re-
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All aboard were thought to
have been flown 82 kilom-
etres from the trapped ship
to Yule Bay, about 2,000
kilometres from the South
Pole.

“They're safe,
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Christmas wrap,
and tableware.

50% off savings continue

in Trim-A-Home Shop

Christmas comes but once a year, and luckily

so does the Bay’s annual half price
Christmas sale.

It’s the Bay’ 's big Christmas wrap up! Festive
‘ wrapping paper, ribbons, bows, tags and
more — all at 50% off our regular prices.

Starting tomorrow you can
take advantage of big savings on boxed
Christmas cards, festive paper plates,
Christmas motif paper table cloths,

tree trim and many other
assorted seasonal items.

There are limited quantities
in some stores so shop
early and please shop

in person.
Prices In effect

while quantities last.
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