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T HEN W CAN A DlA N
FHdw', Septcumber13,1974
Slocon, • ■
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cert geared down toa. starry-eyed, to m an tic mo o 4 as the deep, m?llow b alit one vo ice o「W ally さi^zuki, former winner of the Topヌnglisi> Singer of SIocan .(1$4化po3sessed?.and .Jbed—、the audience, with:."Once .jn A)vhile".
A typical S!ocain: "siiibai" would not be complete without being graced >vHh aネraditionail odori. Here toperform this di-stinctivejyj&panese&rtカfdah画 emgto"TsumもXoi; DケChi^" iMei^le (J^ozuyりEbata >nd Ginger. (TsujりTerakitai.
Following Merle and Gi?ig;er was Himon0-clad, mother 6f six and grandmother of tWo,さunii, (Homma)Oike of Winnipeg, Sumi eVひked €ai«rpiercing whistles, aj)pl汰uSe and biliiigualshouts of '*mor€', from the;udielice after her renc^iticm of & pp-.p ular: Japanese : song.
Ast;hきboisterous deposition of the'audience receded, a back-:drop, :dep.ieting .scene..of some Slocan i10vising units and an "ofuro", ...waslowered -(mto the stage. With h争nily a warning the record, crowd at the J.C.CC. thatir:ght &ched withlaughter after what mtiy havもbeen a ireplay of the first "Japanese Canadian Sti:eak,, (which, evidently, happened on somebody's ofuro night). Allthat isknowilゅotit the "streaker", wearing onlyge-■ta and hぉhimald,.,s that:he cat Tied his bath towelin. front ofhim with a superb sense of
Just as the' crowded h汰:lseemed to be recovering from the pains of a belly-lauglv it feli victim once ag"ain to .the antics of an: a spiring ' st rip-tease a?"tist whose attempts in the fine art were abruptly qvmhed 'as tlie 'cu'rtairi:' came':.dひ:wrt. around her. ■S-O.briety.'w'as returnto., the hoきas M6lly(YaTiagisawa) lde. opened 'the. second portion .of 'the CO nee rt..'Accompanying .Molly on: t he:-" ivories" .Was',br0 th - in-l?tw :ぉd Id.e, who inte;rlaq.ぉ-her :up-tempo "Pools Rusli In" and "I WillGather Sねrs" with a few swinging interjections.
Following Molly and Ed was the muchi.eniertibered,HuトYa-. mainotO-: the SIocan Nisei,s an-swerjtひA1Jolson. Burnt cork and all,Hugoきformec^ ami-mもto thelate minstrelきhow-m an ,s"Mammy". -Resident Torontoni叫一:Sa?i\ Furuya, :was next in tゅ,pot-light.柳1iゅnゎリth争ha]^ぁ somie: young man that heニ.き紐:, Sam arous0damuU4 sig}> of ノ'recogni-tkm ..frdm .the .ladies' in: t)ieaiKUencさwholisten^ inten-tiy to his rich.barH6nelencjitkm of"Miyoto幼Ui"u,,..
Anotlierむature at the typical SI 9 can "shibai" was & perfor-hiftnce by the TeapゃkerDaiic-c?i*8:- now, commonly referred to as the "Slocan Gays".
The elegance of the kimorio, the carefully coif fed wfjgfs aiid, pot tゥmenticm, the able instni-ction under Mrs.Nakamura, sen-sもi of the J.C.C.C. Odori class, did nothing for the Teapickers 一they bunged .it anyw&y. And beauUfiT.lytoo.Onceagain, tlie performers had the audience in side-spilitUng ag0n3^, begぉng for mercy. The Teapickers were: Ace Fujik>ay ashi, Ted Harada, Gene Hミgashi, KfiぉSaVsho, Shig Son I and Jim Ura.
With thelaughter subsiding and tear,soaked hankie:s returning to their purses, Wally Su-zuW of Montrealreappeared on stage accompanied this tim« by
Kaye (ToyoU) !^jiwar各of To«; At tl^eひut3ゃt 6f the evening's: ronto. In a du" toゅe tune,! affair* 'Toyo TTakata Tead alet-"Tlianks for thふMemories',,t^rfroihthe pre sent Mayorひf
W&lly pnd Kaye cariied t)iら©audience back thirty yeab with memoi:y-restoringlyrics bj^ To-yo Takata.
/The柳g evoked nods of coれitiojiネsハit':rietracゃed1hゃgo^ mgs-oiiin the grhost town. Dri-liking "dひl)u,' (a home-brew made むoiri rice) andnicknamesli' ke:Jumbo, Hippo,.B6ひby, Woop-ie,T6otsie, Sparrひ^v and Sp— weie some of the麼mo;ries recalled arid siwedき"i most ail whoネttende(TtlVe coiic^rt.
M eliひwed by the nostaほie:fe-e,ings firmlyestゅlished byTci-yo TakataVlyrics the croWded h復waswell-prゅared for what seemedto))e one of the highlight oi the concert.
Anyone ..in the .kudience. .wh? kn e\NT anything iJi> out any thing in theJ&ぉanese CaiwUiiaTiconununi-ty, l?eforもor during the war, eoi^Idまyou about Grace, Te-rakita.
Now, Mrs. Koga of Winnipeg, Gi-ace was well-kno^vyrn in the community for her singing of "Shinaiioyoru,, whichきhe rendered once效gain to a gratefulAudience. The sp由g-water dear soprano voice of Mi&s Terakita seemed to. bring ■ a salty .lump ..tり every throat'.ぉs ,は'rang through the jammed packed hallOf near-absolute quiet.
After the paroxysm of applause' 'for Miss :.Terakita,:ニa11'the
Slocan,Agda Wyngey who' Weレ comed allthe former residents back J for a visit.
During the CQurse of the "n-quet, the dinners were favdured wUh & sampling oきthe prfevious
<m, as testimony to《he rumor ta)ei)tnevが.diesiitjuSt p^ies fi^m onegeneration to the next 一thei€ wもre a few inspiring perform&nces,:.l>5r .a: ..nuiiite of Sansei.
ネfew of the names that appeared a—n on stぉge at the bart-qi;et were: Kaye (Toyota) jiwarci, Sam Furuya, Vemon Ha-kk"l^u, Grace(T《rakita) Kdga, SpnU(Hひmnia)Oike, Shigeki Soi^a, \ValiySuzjuki, HugひYAし 腦motd and ChikiYaimが幼ー.
Adがng: :h'is:: .voice, to thelist of Japanese Oan^ian croonets .wぉ'ぉob' Uyeda ,of Montreal..In aやell-d e>reloped, res on at)t baritone voice, Bo もsang "ぉujcmoy-u.me,,. .miiclv to thも..appi'eciation of 'the audience..
Another s.inger whひ.was. missed .at the Saturday concertぉぉ. Mr, K. Mor it a of Toronto. After sひme .-■encouragement from .the audience, the. "Wりrld War I veteran made his second debut before the Siocan cひimnimity singing an English song datinぉ back .to hi's. stint in the Canadian Army.
Creating a.: refkctive atmos-
pai'tidpants in the concert con- phere on thislast nightひf the
yened on stage to sing thefina-:e, "Moments To Remember".
ShiきSora, in a message delivered in Japanese and in English, clひsed the Slocan"shibai" with many thanks to everyone who pjirticipated and attended theconeert, adding that, as the former Slocanites re;membered the old daれthey should also 1.eme:mber:'the Issei who. went through the gゃod as wellas the bad timeswはh them and who, in. any. circumstance,-: 、v'ere aレ'. Ways ,thei:e to help. He also added .that in.thinking- abひuぃ"the .past—, they.- -must reserve SrOme. i;houglit for /the fixture — and the Sanきei and the Yonsei.
Immediately following the cpncert, the auditoriuhiwas cleared away for a dance and get-together whゅ-featiired some^ —of .-the', best .nausic arid'b'ands of .il^e
Cfe:ゃら"ぉlmer,Sっ,aii^i《^T^ TMもiivciry of :liOv6^iVe Shared", 'ニJ^枕fW【S^C^rir Never Smile A-iain,,, "Opus Onゲ,,"Sentimental Journey".きnd the big band sdpn^s..- of ToipnVy and Jimmy Dorsey,G!ienn Miller,t)uke Elレ ingfton and Woody Herman "pt 'everyone .6iv the,ir. feet, until..the w, hours of til "oil"ing day.
For those .who* reqiiired -or. v^aゅd a short respite from the もvもningfs activities, a display of oW phoーraphs, t«ken of arni at Sk)oan during the war years> was on iexMbit on the nppei^ fl6or of ihe Centre. >Pictures of evacuees, bag in hand, — arriving sit* the Siocan Railway Station, young men 'and women dancing at a regular get-toがther, school children and their teachers as well as picturぉfrom a few S:ocpn "shibais" were among the photographs in the €xhiWtion.
The second day of the Reunion saw the beginning of the erid of this fleeting encountひwith nostalgia as about 300 former Slocanites gathered for a wind-up banquet at the Irm cm the Park,
my engine.".
Severalsylinder5 can be assembled side by side 911the 、sa-tne shafttひtake care ofdiffe-rent .power T的iiirements and the engine, is .air/C^Jole—d. According tひUie inventor, there never re-aliy''is'any..li^at build up. Lifetin^e.'.purs必ぃ
Aれhougliゅrolse is not. an educated-Jnari,-he h&さspent'most ゎf hisぁstudying engミiiee" ring — enough to believe he has.a winner. "if w,iked once.: it WiH. work''110w,,, he sa.id*
—In the. .past, Vi?hen fuei : ,s 1)ー16处这喊フ^^>4—ぐ13^^ぞ-and .every:
on the jpad,tW^rふぉケaUr^^4 little attenticm. .
SlocanReunion, Japanese Canadian poetess, Joy Kogawa. who now -.lives' in Ottawa, 'read a few poems, fmnf^-he.r recent ..publication, "A Choice of Dreams". The
おeITIS mi iTO ted her memoHes of the eャacuaU6n and recalled ihe flings of being: JaIiaiiese (lui:ingandaれer the war. Among the sele<jUons that Ms. iCo-gゅAya read、veirゃ:"WhatD0 i Re聰mbeir ofth€ Eva<iuatUm" and "Tr"nk in the At"c".
んspeciaレpresentation was made to 'Mr.幼ほand Mr si. Dot Matsiinaぉ8Lカf /toronto. Herも, their nwmy Slpcanfriends' gathered tog^hei^ tひgive them a gift of iapp"ciation for their genきro^ity;£|ltd 、yarm support in thゃdばfi(julttipies during the war.
Also a,ecial&ckno:wle<igem-ent 、vas given U> Mr, and Mi's.' Z. Kiゅshit^ who havejuきt recently movM to Vancouver from Siocan WheiretheyJwid been Winning .afood store for the past thirty years,.
Conti"i:buUTig, ..muol^ time ノ'and' effort to the entertainment at the banquet Were the talented yoV»ig::Sanseithe xhiWren of' former Slocanites. Among them in order.' o:f:..a卯earance': '、vもTe:'. TeiryWafcada, Ga^Kawa^aki, Joy Sato, Dale Yoshida, Mi勿 Takata, Wendy Hirano and Midori Carney.
The wもekend proved to beれレ led wはh nostalgia and good feelings for the many Nisei and Iss-■ei \vho participated in the. Reu-mon.
.They..came 'together .from ac-.rひぉCanada^ apd,■.in', effect, .re, ■created', the Japanese Canadian community and spirit again
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