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AM. MoneyB4 EntertainmentB6 TeIevisionB7 EDITOR: Sheila Pratt. 429-5397 r.r; K3S liXOoirSlhi Ciromnidlalle Students unlock the language door iresgdemits steige Northlands expansion opposed GERRY WARNER Journal Staff Writer i i -if "Northlands has always been very powerful in the city and they remain so today." Dorothy So re risen, a war veteran's widow who raised three children in her tidy Cromdale bungalow, said she won't leave no matter what council decides. "I don't have to go and I won't go. I'm too old to be moving around and besides my husband built this house and I raised all my children here," she said.

Sorenson said her only hope is that council will have a change of heart "My hope is by getting together like this today we will make them reconsider their priorities." Metro Chrapko, past president of the Borden Park Residents Association, said council will lose money by the move. "What we'd like is council to reconsider the importance of giving up this land," he said. Chrapko said the city will lose $150,000 annually in tax revenues and have to pay $2 million in servicing costs if the expansion is allowed to proceed. He said this is especially hard to justify when there is ample land east of Northlands for the expansion. New Democrat MLA Pam Barrett also taking part in the demonstration, said the expansion doesn't make sense in light of the crises in low-income housing in the city.

"It's horses verses houses. That's what it boils down to," she said. Edmonton An alderman and an MLA joined about 30 North Cromdale residents as they took to the streets Sunday in a last-ditch effort to save their community. The residents were protesting third reading of a city council bylaw, scheduled for Tuesday, that will allow Northlands to expand and swallow up dozens of houses along 113th and 114th Avenues and between 78th and 82nd Streets. Despite a flurry of placards, residents appeared resigned to their neighborhood's fate.

Many expressed the feeling that Northlands was a foe too powerful to fight Among the signs clustered in one front yard: Northlands kills community. Stop Northlands expansion, and Homes help downtown. The fact that Northlands wants the additional land for parking and horse barns infuriated many of the residents, one of whom held a sign reading Blink-busting smells and so do horses. "Northlands wanted these properties and council gave them the whole community. I find that pretty scary," said Janice Waldron, vice-president of the Parkdale-Cromdale Community League.

Aid. Brian Mason, who participated in the demonstration, said I I Larry Wong The Journal McCauley language teacher Pat Ghazouly helps student Hien Huynh with vocal technique Taking that first big step Immigrant students flourish after mastering new language Journal Staff Offices named after retired heart specialist McCauley program helps immigrant kids learn English Stories by FLORENCE LOYIE Journal Staff Writer Edmonton The new student is bright and eager to learn but try as she might she just couldn't understand what the teacher was telling her to do. Nine-year-old Nga Trihn, whose family just arrived in Edmonton from Vietnam two days before, listens intently and nods her head as Christa Hallett tries to communicate, first with her hands, then using an overhead projector. Despite her nodding head, it's easy to see Trihn doesn't understand. Hallett tries to get Lam Nguyen, another nine-year-old student, to explain to Trihn how to do the Grade 2 math.

But he doesn't speak her dialect and isn't much help. Finally a translator is found down the hall in another classroom. Trihn's face lights up once she realizes Hallett had been trying to tell her she must carry over sums to do subtraction. Scenes like this are a daily occurrence at McCauley Elementary and Junior High, the inner-city school where 60 per cent of the 224 students are in English-as-a-second-Ianguage programs. Most of them are refugees or immigrants from countries like Cambodia, ietnam, Hong Kong.

Macaw, Laos, Russia, Poland, Costa Rica, El Salvador and mainland China. It requires a lot of patience and understanding to work with ESL students, says principal Wilma Bayko. Most arrive at the school unable to speak a single word of English let alone write or read it. Many of the Asian children who come from the refugee camps are also illiterate in their own language, she said. No smiles "The kids from the (refugee) camps are stone-faced for the first few weeks they won't smile no matter how much you smile at them they just stare at you," she said.

The refugee children tend to keep to themselves when they first arrive at the school, not even talking with those students who speak the same language. But after several weeks of silent observation, they start to come out of their shell and begin imitating other students, she said. "After a few months you notice they've stopped bringing their rice pots for lunch and have sandwiches instead," Bayko said. Instructors at McCauley do their utmost to put new students at ease because children have to feel good about their surroundings if they are going to learn, she said. Teachers smile a great deal and many classes include singing and chanting because it is repetitive and helps the students learn quickly.

There are numerous field trips to malls, banks, super markets, even live theatre because the experts say to learn a language, a person must also learn about the culture. A positive school climate also plays an important part in how well new ESL students take to their surroundings, she said. Since coming to the school two years ago, she has had renovations done to the 45-year-old school to make it more cheerful. Please see SchoolB2 Journal Staff a ment and a stethoscope 34 years ago and we worked with that," Fraser told a group who assembled for the opening. "Now we have ultrasound and the development of drugs for high blood pressure.

We have lasers which can clear out obstructions and implanted pacemakers." Fraser considers the heart more important than the brain. "You don't talk about the brain of the matter you talk about the heart of the matter," he said. "The new office gives us identity," said foundation spokesman Denise Ryan. "The secret to beat heart disease is education hope people will see our office and come in" More than 5.000 people die every year in Alberta from cardiovascular disease, and 1.400 of those are under age 70. Edmonton Bob Fraser has heart Born 68 years ago on St Valentine's Day, the retired cardiologist has been honored by the Alberta Heart and Stroke Foundation, where he has been a director since 1957.

The foundation named its new office after him. For Eraser, the new premises at 109a5 124th St. are a far cry from its first oflice which it shared with a Calgary doctor. "I think we raised $30,000 in the first campaign we had in 1957," he said. "Now, we raise over $2 million." Modern technology has played a major role in the treatment of heart disease.

"We had blood pressure equip 'V Edmonton Priscilla L'jueta remembers how scared and lonely she felt when she walked into McCauley School. Everything was strange and new: the land, the culture, the language, the people, and the school. But it wasn't long before her classmates made her feel at ease. Even though language was a barrier, Priscilla's new classmates knew exactly how the 14-year-old from Costa Rica felt They were once in the same position themselves. Despite the cultural gulf, there exists a camaraderie between the McCauley Junior High students not normally found elsewhere.

They're all the same, no matter their skin color or command of English. Dominika Pustol, 13, recalls other schools where no one spoke to her or even attempted to be friendly. "Here the children and people are very friendly," said Polish-born Pustol. Her family immigrated to Austria where they spent almost two years in a refugee camp before sponsors brought them to Canada Although she has only been here four months, she already has a good command of English and has been integrated into a regular math and social studies program. She dreams of university and becoming an archeologist.

Similarly, Chanroeun Nov. 14, has high hopes. She loves animals and aspires to be a veterinarian when she finishes school. With four years at McCauley. when she first arrived the only English she knew was the alphabet.

Nov was born in Cambodia during the horror years of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. Nov said she doesn't like to talk about Cambodia "There were too many bad people there." she says. Quoc Tran, 15, doesn't like to 1 Infant car seats defective Mjfc Journal Staff Writer Larry Wong The Journal Vital! Kit, Priscilla Ujueta, Quoc Tran, Helen Wan, Chanroeun Nov and Dominika Pustol share a camaraderie despite their vastly different backgrounds said the problem involves the screws which secure the carrying handle to the shell of the seat. They can work loose, causing the parts to separate. A baby could easily be injured if the carrying handle falls off while it is being carried in the seat.

"We haven't had any injuries yet but the potential is there," Undseth said. Consumers who have this model of baby car seat should notify Consumers to receive a free repair kit consisting of two modified screws and instructions, he said. In the meantime, the AMA recommends that owners tighten the existing screws and carry the seat by the base rather than the handle when it is used as a carrier. For more information call the AMA at 474-8714. Outside Edmonton call toll-free 1-800-222-6578.

Edmonton The Alberta Motor Association is advising consumers that an infant car seat supplied by Consumers Distributing Company is defective and should not be used until it is repaired. The AMA was notified of the defect by Transport Canada, which is informing the public about a safety-related defect involving 2563 seats manufactured by Century Products Co. between Aug. 1-Oct 31, 1989. The defective seats are model No.

4580. with date codes 8908. 8909 or 8910 indicating the month the seats were manufactured (the eighth, ninth or tenth months August September, October of 1989). AMA spokesman Bob Undseth talk about his life in Vietnam either. Instead he prefers to talk about playing floor hockey Tran's sister sponsored him and his mother to come to Canada, but two other brothers were left behind.

Tran's father, a soldier, was killed before he was born. Tran's dark eyes cloud over when he speaks of the parent he has never known. His father named him in a letter to his mother before he was born. He wants to finish school and get a good job so he can earn enough to return to Vietnam and visit relatives. But he wouldn't stay, Tran said.

Vitali Kit, 13, fluent in Russian and Polish, now wants to become as proficient in English so he can be a translator when he finishes school. He arrived in Edmonton from Russia six months ago to rejoin the family he hadn't seen in three years. Kit's father, a Russian Orthodox priest, wasn't allowed to bring his youngest son with him when he came to Canada with his wife and other son. Kit remained in Russia with an aunt until glasnost loosened the bonds that held him captive in his own country. Pinsent with glass of apple juice brings back different picture i Barry (rT7fi Westgate 1 City Beat man," Turner tells Hurt at one point As lines go, this is marginally better than Eileen Brennan's classic in The Cheap Detective, hen she responds to Peter Falk's concerns about picking up the pieces of his life with "If it's a piece you want Fred, you can pick it up right here." Or, as Errol Flynn once said, "My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income Warming to the topic, when you ask your friends what has four legs and an arm, and they don't know, you can tell them a Doberman Then there was Kevin Hilgers, the MG 1200 morning man, checking in with: "The new RCMP musical ride features 31 horses and an elephant." Get it? No? Oh, well And.

finally, this: "Have a nice career at the Sun. And I wish you all the best," someone passing my table at the racetrack on Saturday laid on me. I think he really meant it "Thanks." was all I could think to say. Bearing in mind my aforesaid interest in motorcyles. Jan Steenson welcomed me back from vacation with an invitation to participate in the big motorcycle rally May 5 to both mark Motorcycle Awareness Month and do a citywide run for the food bank.

She said she'd even manage a sidecar for my wife. I'm thinking about it, but this might be tough to swing at home It's pothole time on city streets, particularly bad this year because of the heavy freeze thaw factor through the winter. Last week, city transportation chief John Schnablegger was promising increased pothole crew activity and signs of that were evident downtown on Sunday, which is a nice early start. One of the great lines in the movies gets repeated Wednesday at the Princess, when the entertaining old-style Kathleen Turner-William Hurt melodrama Body Heat plays. "You're not very smart are you.

I like that in a the image I'd sooner keep. It fitted with what remains one of his more memorable characterizations, in the film The Rowdyman. But apple juice! Whew. I don't want anvthing to do with that The City Of Edmonton's ACE. Employee Program culminated Friday night at the Edmonton Inn with the selection of two people to represent city employees at various functions throughout the year.

Chosen from eight finalists were Sylvia Wagner, a seven-year Edmonton Power employee and Lee Ward, eight years with the city's Environmental Services. The ACE. program is an offshoot of the original Sweet City Sue competition. Friday night's finalists were drawn from a larger group of city employees recognized recently by their fellow workers. After scoring best in a stringent set of knowledge, personality and public Back on the job, with my vacation already only a dim, distant memory', I made a note to myself to look up actor Gordon Pinsent, who is in the area shooting a new film.

I remember a very convivial hour or so the last time I talked to Pinsent, which was long enough ago to have been in another life. But the picture that ran on Saturday with film critic Marc Horton's interview with Pinsent stopped me in my tracks dead in my tracks. What was Pinsent holding on to, in that picture a container of apple juice? One of my fondest memories of that long-ago get-together with the man who once gave the Canadian experience a pill named Quentin Durgens (something I'm sure he, with the rest of us, would sooner forget), was the enthusiasm with with which he attacked a lineup of double Scotches. I was really impressed. And that's speaking tests.

Ward and Wagner will be front and centre for the city during the year at things like Klondike Days and Grey Cup week. The other finalists were Marilyn Linton (Transportation), Terry Josey (Parks and Recreation), Karl Kovacs (Transportation), June Whitney (Finance), John McDonald (Public Works) and Gary Paul (Edmonton Power)..