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Taking refugee: Usual month of telethon-related fundraising events to benefit unusually cruel situation for displaced

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Yes, it’s been a tough year here. But tell that to the residents of Aleppo.

Helping them and refugees in many other areas is the focus of this year’s NRK telethon, with Longyearbyen as usual offering a month of local events leading up to the televised auction Oct. 23. Anne Lise Sandvik, head of this year’s local effort, said she doesn’t think local large-scale layoffs and economic downturn will affect this year’s giving.

“You guess it’s going to be be approximately the same as always,” she said.
Svalbard has for many years been by far the most generous per-capita donor in Norway, contributing 620 kroner per resident compared to the nationwide average of 36.64 kroner.

This year’s schedule is largely similar to previous years. The following are the dates for events (times will be listed as they become known):

• Oct. 10: Dinner made and served by children at Polarflokken  kindergarten.

• Oct. 13: Dinner  made and served by children at Kullungen kindergarten.

• Oct. 15: Car wash at The Governor of Svalbard’s service garage.

• Oct. 15-16: Rummage sale at The University Centre in Svalbard.

• Oct 16.: Open house at The Governor of Svalbard’s residence.

• Oct. 20: Dinner, craft sales, games and performances by Longyearbyen School students.

• Oct. 21: Concert featuring Henning Sommero at Svalbard Church.

• Oct. 23: Door-to-door collections by local youths and local auction at the Radisson Polar Blue Hotel.

In addition, tickets for a lottery drawing after the auction are being sold most days at the entrance of Svalbardbuttiken.

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Mark Sabbatini

I'm a professional transient living on a tiny Norwegian island next door to the North Pole, where once a week (or thereabouts) I pollute our extreme and pristine environment with paper fishwrappers decorated with seemingly random letters that would cause a thousand monkeys with a thousand typewriters to die of humiliation. Such is the wisdom one acquires after more than 25 years in the world's second-least-respected occupation, much of it roaming the seven continents in search of jazz, unrecognizable street food and escorts I f****d with by insisting they give me the platonic tours of their cities promised in their ads. But it turns out this tiny group of islands known as Svalbard is my True Love and, generous contributions from you willing, I'll keep littering until they dig my body out when my climate-change-deformed apartment collapses or they exile my penniless ass because I'm not even worthy of washing your dirty dishes.
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