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THE NEW CANADIAN
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Okanaganites Establish, Nisei League
By * Amari Shaberu " The sicepy valley is awakening! Spring is here! Farmers are busy seeding in their green houses and the .fields are being readied for planting, all tell us of the coming Spring and its splendour. . The Nisei population of this community appears to be declining as time rplls'a'long. Miss Tomic Kubakawa left recently for Vancouver where she is attending the Sprott Shaw Business College. Power to her!
And again, much luck,to the rest of our boys and'girls ven-
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'Hiking a total of 14 miles on March 8, trout fishing, was enjoyed at-the Morton Lake. .
En route home, C.A. paused for a breather to watch the high' lead method of .logging. When the "godhead" whistle is blown the gas cold-decker roars; under with wide open throttle, causing the tall spar trce..adorned with a big bull-bloc!;, smaller haul-back block and six guy'lines to shiver.'
/That evening was spent in CoxirteiTay 'iff Uie~ifsuar Heavy shopping 'tours while Roy and Roy Maars, being carefree, hid themselves in the new E.W. Theatre. x - . , , .
Oh the following day, the sport sedan was given two coats of wax polish in preparation , for our whirlwind visit to the "big city" shortly via Nanaimo.
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Nisei Assembly
On Friday, March 7 a grand assembly was held at the Kel-owna Bussei Hall, represented by virtually every Nisei of the Okanagan District.
This gala event with Tom T6mte, secretary of the Bussei Younf Peoples as master of ceremonies, opened with discussions as to the possibility of organizing an Okanagan Nisei League. In his opening address, Mr, Tomjye expressed his views that a runitecl Nisei is of fundamental importance to our success as Canadians. .
MiVTonn'e next called on the president of the Bussei Young Peoples,' Aiji Hoknzdrio* who delivered an inspiring message of hope and encouragement.
The Kelo\vna Nisei Club was capably represented by their president, Edward Yoshioka and supporter Ichiro Yarna-moto,
Nobukatsu. Aoki spoke" on behalf of the,Summer-land Nir sei Club followed: by a'message by Rosie Iba'kari for the.Kel-owna Young Ladies' Club. All the speakers voiced, their ap-pfoval~f6r lhe~Valley"ljea^ier Tlie discussions concludedv with the asse,mbly passing the motion for the formation of the League. Details and other problems will be discussed later at another convention to be held in the near future, ,
Relaxation
Pancing followed with Maes-
Steveston Static
St. Patrick's -Social
invited by the ^South Arm Y.P.S. tova St. Patrick's Social
on--Thursday,'March 20, at 8 p.m. - '
� Spring Concert
With the- assistance of the C. G, I. T, and the Saturday Club, the Steveston Y,P.S. will hold 'its 5fh annual spring concert atjhe local Kindergarten on. Saturday, March 29, at 7:30 p.m. ^__.......-, �-.,__r-^.:,-, ~~
Besides several" numbers presented by assisting artists and local talent, there willvbe
skit in English, a unique musical-presentation, and a Japanese play entitled "Rjso Otto."
Surrey Girls' Club Fourth Consecutive Term Ends Organization
The final meeting of the Sw-rey Girls' Club was held at the home of Miss Kay Hirasawa on March 13.
The Club gratefully acknowledges the kind donation of two dollars from Mrs, S. Shigehiro and Mrs. S. Ito.
It was decided to.close the club as members are so few and find it impossible to carry on. The funds of the club ""are to be donated, to the Surrey Nokai.
We wish to extend our sincere thanks to .all those who, so kindly supported the Surrey
Hideo Onotera Heads Riverside JCQ
Hideo Onotera was re-elect-Jed for the fourth consecutive iyear to the position of president of the Delta-East Richmond Surrey Chapter of the JGCL at a meeting held re-Hall. ,
Tom Oikawa was also recently at the .East Richmond elected 'vice-president for the fourth year and Thomas Ta-maki, chairman; Tatsuro Suzuki, corresponding secretary;
Girls' Club . during its five years of existence.
Tadao Kato Earns Draw At Bri
* Saturday night, Britannia Mines High School},Ips.t a'final game against Holy Trinity for. the Lower Mainland Intermediate B championship, 38-2*7, In one of the most important games of the season, the local boys had a'bad case of stage fright and just weren't up to par, whereas Holy Trinity was blessed With good luck. Fight Card . . . A large crowd packed the
excellent boxing card, ..when fighters from Vancouver � and Bellingham put on five bouts. Main attraction for the Japanese fans was Tadao Kato, Golden Gloves' champ, who drew with Jimmy- Crooks in a
tro Anthony Kobayashi and his coUectloiV- of "disked" music. After the refreshments the happy 'dancers,swayed to the strains of the Home Waltz at a very late hour. : . ,
During the course of the fan-tasics-a-vtelegram-from-Katsu-mi Imayoshi of the St. Joseph's Hospital was re'ati. Mr. Imayoshi extended his best ;wislies and all possible luck to the first Okanagan Nisei round-up.
A 'distinguished guest of the evening was Mr. MikeJMaruno of Asahi 'baseball fame, who was holidaying in the fair vale.
four-round affair,, .Crooks kept backing away from:Kato; who went after him, without^ any hesitation, landing on the fldw once, in his 'hurry to catch the retreating Crooks.
Eddie Troll, fornler Britannia boy, "and present Grand-view', A.C. ace, holding a coiV-; fident edge all the way through, bested EellinghanVs.Ed Buett, especially with a powerful left hook.
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In the. last bout on the , card, Jackie Turner, also a Golden Gloves champ, -had' to be content -with a dra\y against a scrappy Pete .Mitchell from Bellingham, who though younger and less experienced, kept in~ the- fight all the way.
Judges were A. C. Mxmro, S, Craig ancT J. Dees, while Tom Reburn and Bill Hatch handled the bell.^C. Nicholson and H, Macdonald refereed. * " * #
Outstanding feature of a
Friday was an amateur . magician, W. C. Shelley, former M.L.A. He completely Tnysti-fied a packed audience 'with his amazing tricks/ such as pro: ducing wine out ',ot nothing, and causing a canary^ i� a cage to vanish. A musical program was presented by local artists,
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Talyos Trample Tuxis In First Game
.VICTORIA,�The" Taiyo hoopsters continued their- winning ways by' defeating the Tuxis Beavers 30-25, in the opening game of the best-of-three series for the Victoria Japanese Community Basketball championship, and the challenge cup being donated,by HitoyukI (Sty) IOK ' - * - . - -
After two^ quick, baskets l?y the Beavers to open the game, the Taiyos retaliated with 11
Beavers led the sharpshooters with ,12 points apiece,' while' Terry Uyede of the latter team
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points, 'five field goals and a] came" next �\vittT7)ine."
foul shot, and from then on? The Tip-Off ;-� � : � -
they were never headed. Wind- !. Aside." from watching a Tai-
ing up^ the first quarter ll-6,ryo player doing the "horizpn-
Taiyos boosted their lead tof'tal" play to perfection, the big
10 points in the second, with i laugh of the evening was pro:
the score at 20-10 in their Ivided when� after a galaxy of
favour. ~ J players untangled themselves
Going into the final stanza [from a general melee in front
on the short end of a 26-12 fof the bench, a lone white rab-
; record, the winners faltered :lbH?s foot Was seen lying oh the
under the terrific pressure pf ; Hloor--we'ir agree ^ that it ?may
the JBeavers; and at the .final 'be a good luck charm, but it
whistle were practically jjmre didhrt bring any: luck to
played off their feet; Th^he biinny that lost it. -
yoiirif er team outscpred their
opponents 13 to 4, and were
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Rosie Ohishi, recording ^ tary; Tatsuro Onotera urer; George Sasaki Koj, kahashi Massoy Kanai, tors; Bill Sasak,, Takahashi,. social chairmen and sports cam" Dick Takenaka complete i executive for the year 1941.4" Fishermen's Me^t
The upper Frasor japan fishermen, held a meeting the local hall wi March 16
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