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,”

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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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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.

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