Page 10A Japanese park offered as By FRANK ISERNIA Sun staff writer A part of downtown Castlegar will take on the exotic look of a Japanese countryside and garden by 1995 if all plans go according to schedule. Sclkirk College president Leo Perra announced at a City Council Committee of the Whole meeting held April 2 the development of the $3.5 million dollar project that will include a Japanese theme gar- den in downtown Castlegar. Japanese industrialist, Misuo Shikano is offering this project as a *. gift of friendship. ‘The construction plans call for a two-storey building and garden to be built on a five-acre plot of land adja- cent to the Castlegar courthouse, and across from the city hall in the heart of Castlegar. Shikano, who recently purchased the land, has plans to develop a seminar house for PERMITS From April 15.to September 15 a Buming Permit Is required for all yard clean-up and f other burning within an approved container. The fee for a Burning Permit for residential f yard clean-up Is $5.00. For all other open | burning the permit fee is $15.00 For Burning Permits and information on H requirements that apply to all open burning, contact the Fire Chiefs office or City Hall i staff at 365-7227. "Price is just the beginning. MINOR SPRING ENGINE TUNE-UP “PQs OIL, LUBE AND FILTER ea City of Castlegar TIRE & AUTO CENTRE *Limited Quantities The Castlegar Sun Japanese students attending Selkirk. The design of the project is modeled | after a similar facility located in Embutsu, the site of Aoyama:Tech- nical College, Selkirk’s sister college in Japan, Perra estimated: that it,” would take three to four years't bring it on stream. i Perra explained that Shikano thought it would be useful for stu- dents to have such a facility so that ' they would be assured a soft landing when they arrived here, |" ee This facility would come to be envisioned as a int i centre, and would provide the students with meeting and study rooms, complete with living accommodations, but it would also act as a resource centre for the community, and as a man-__ agement training centre. A sister city agreement between Castlegar and Embetsu was signed in 1989 during a friendship visit to Japan by Mayor Audrey Moore, council representatives and Selkirk asset for the community and it’s infinite beauty will certainly make , it a tourist attraction.” Chapman also said that, not only _will the Japanese centre act as a transition house for students, it will also give people a place to go to get ~ in tune with their thoughts, Perra informed City Council ety is holding a Bone Marrow ~” Information Seminar on Monday, April 15, at the activity room ‘of Stanley Humphries Secondary “ School. The Red Cross, through their Unrelated Bone Marrow Donor Program, is looking for very spe- cial people to come forward and experience the ultimate satisfaction of being a volunteer. A leukemia patient has a 75 per College officials. Moore, who had ~-. cent chance of finding a compati- the opportunity to stay at the Embetsu seminar house during her. visit said, “Certainly it was a very. interesting and well-planned facili- ty, and I certainly enjoyed it as a two-day resident.” “It's a fantastic idea,” exclaimed Alderman Jim Chapman, “The public will have access to all the gardens, It will be an incredible ble donor in a registry containing 100,000 names. Canada has only 5,000 names on its current registry. Mathematically speaking those fig- ures mean that the odds are not favorable. The Society needs your help. The potential applications of bone marrow transplantation for malignancy and other disorders that Selkirk College has received permission to extend their facilities at the north east comer, } “This extension will include a lecture theatre, instructional, space noted, The Board will be meeting this week to review the proposals which It takes a specia The Canadian Red Cross Soci- have expanded since it became apparent that unrelated bone mar- row donors may be used with tesults very close to those from related donors transplantation. In view of this, various Red Cross Transfusion Centres have begun recruiting bone marrow donors to form the basis of a national registry. Donating bone marrow requires _ two or three days in hospital, and a general anesthetic, The donor is admitted to the hospital the night before the procedure, and usually. is discharged the day after the “friendship gift” have been submitted, and construc: tion will start very shortly.” Between the new education’. wing and the residences, approxi-: mately five million dollars worth of construction will take place at the campus this year. . one | person donation. On the night before the marrow is harvested, the donor is interviewed by an anesthetist, who explains the hazards of a general anesthetic, ‘The harvesting takes approxi- mately two hours. The donor usu- ally is discharged the following day and can retumi:to work ina day or two. To find out more about becom- ing a volunteer please come to the seminar. Remember.... you could save a life of someone you love or kno ee Air B.C. pilots may strike BRAMPTON, ONT. 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The pilots of AirBC are repre- sented by the Canadian Air Line Pilots Association whose members also include the pilots of Air Cana- da, Canadian Airlines, Time Air, Air Ontario, Air Toronto, Ontario Express, Frontier Airlines, Intair and Air Nova. ; 5 AirBC is Air Canada’s largest subsidiary regional airline, flying twin turboprop and four-engine jet: aircraft throughout British Columbia and Alberta and to Seattle, WA. and Portland, Ore., inthe USA. Youth Act needs some changes soon VANCOUVER (SNS) - It’s just another example of how badly Youth Act must be readdressed. Last week a jewellry store in one of Bumaby’s malls was robbed by two oriental youths, with a store clerk shot in the process and an. innocent passerby narrowly escap- > of t apprehended by police is now back on the streets and it’s leaving many people ask- ing a whole lot of questions about the justice system. : : ‘The youth was put into his par- ent’s custody after being released from a Youth Detention Centre. To most people, the system is doing nothing but coddling teen- agers who are nothing more than hardened criminals. Metrotown Mall in Bumaby has adopted a system of studying pho- tographs of those mall officials do not want to see inside the building, and mall security prevents those individuals from coming in." ; But that leaves the next question, if drastic measures such as metal detecto rs and firearms are bext in . line a order to protect people fom PROFILE 4 yi It.was over practically before it began. “The wind came up and I grabbed Shane and ran in the house, then when I went right back out for the puppy, all the trees were down. It was just a matter of moments," said Pass Creek resident Shelley Parr of the sud- den windstorm that swept through her yard, uprooting mature lodgepole pine trees and lifting fibreglass panelling from a deck roof, just after 4 p.m. last Friday afternoon. 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