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A WILLIAMS LAKE TRIBUNE, Tuesday February 25, 1992 In General Crowhurst hooks up with brother WHITECROSSONSIX vtf ByAIexWhitecross in 198S, until Unsolved Mysteries was broadcast in December. been searching for the boys' mother for many years but for Crowhurst, it is a new quest He says he grew up happy with his adoptive parents. However, his adoptive father has died and his adoptive mother has remarried and moved to the United States. He is now curious as to what happened to his natural mother. The boys don't have much to go on.

The most recent clue dates back to 1962 when a phone record indicates she called their father from Ontario. "My brother has a contact in Ontario who is looking into it," Crowhurst says. Crowhurst has also written the English government to see if Anne Currie, who is English, returned to that country. He contacted them in January and is still awaiting a reply. "I had lost contact with him," Crowhurst says.

"But I wrote to him through Unsolved Mysteries and I got a letter back (Tuesday)." It took a while for the letter to reach Currie, through the program, but Currie knew it was coming. After Crowhurst's story about being on Unsolved Mysteries was published in The Tribune, The Province picked up the story and was seen by an aunt in Vancouver who knew where Currie was. "My brother heard about me trying to get hold of him through an aunt in Burnaby," says Crowhurst, who had sent his brother a birthday card after seeing the television show. Now that the two are back in communication, they will jointly search for the whereabouts of their natural mother. Currie has It took a couple of months, but Brian Crowhurst has finally contacted his brother in California and the two are now jointly looking for their natural mother.

Crowhurst was surprised last' December to see part of his life story played out on television's Unsolved Mysteries. Crowhurst's natural brother, Jim Currie, was featured on the show as he searched for their mother. Anne and Donald Currie, the boys' parents, were involved in a bitter divorce and custody was awarded to Donald. The youngest son, Darrcll Currie (Crowhurst), was adopted by friends of the Curries in Vancouver. Crowhurst grew up in Vancouver has been working at Gibraltar Mines for the past 20 years.

Jim Currie, a California lawyer, contacted Crowhurst in 1982 but the two lost contact team titles it ''4. Brian Crowhurst and you help build your local economy Here's something Important to think about before you go shopping! Where you shop Is Important for many reasons. When you shop locally, part of every dollar you spend Is returned to your community. Local businesses pay local taxes and make charitable donations whithln the community. When you shop out of town your money helps someone else's town.

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Seattle's junior hockey team, the Totems, might even have trouble getting their box scores published as may the UBC Thunder-birds. I imagine the Edmonton Eskimos will also be placed on the blacklist until they switch their team name to the Edmonton Inuit, and even at that, the purists might object to any name the aboriginal peoples feel they have a corner on. The next step in this foolishness my be for other ethnic groups to feel intimidated or insulted by sports organizations associating themselves with specific cultural identities. People of Scandinavian backgrounds, for instance, may wish to have team names such as Vikings or Norsemen placed on the prohibited list With others getting on the bandwagon even the Scots and Irish might lodge complaints against the SFU Clansmen and the Boston Celtics. The IRA keep pretty busy, but if they heard of the team title trend they may get upset over Notre Dame's Fighting Irish and demand a distasteful designation for a college football team.

If the powerful lobby organization, Friends of Animals (FoA), thought they were missing out on an opportunity I shudder to think of the actions they would take. The FoA has slated on many occasions that because animals can't speak for themselves it is the duty of the organization to speak for them. They don't usually choose passive methods to make their points, so things could get ugly at a large number of sports events if the FoA decided team names were taking advantage of helpless animals. A football game between the Detroit Lions and Chicago Bears would be a natural for attracting the attention of the FoA who, in their traditional style, would flood the playing field with volunteers willing to grab the ball and make off with it or handcuff themselves to the goal posts or the referee. Similar actions, tailored to whatever the sport involved, could force teams such as the Miami Dolphins, San Jose Sharks, Detroit Tigers, Boston Bruins, or the Williams Lake Mustangs to give serious consideration to choosing less offensive team titles.

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