INSIDE COMMUNITY EVENTS Be Around Town «COM DAVE GORDON'S garden was on the tour last year, FILE PHOTO Tour great gardens SOME PEOPLE’S gardens are so inviting, you can’t help but want to take a closer look. The Perennial Garden Tour is your chance to spend the afternoon wandering through some of greater Terrace’s prettiest residential gar- . dens — and meet the gardeners who tend them so lovingly. The fifth annual self-guided tour takes place this Sunday (July 14) from 1-4 p.m. The tour ticket contains the addresses of the gardens in- - cluded. Tickets are $10 at Sidewalkers, Misty River Books and the Garden Shed, Breathe easy TERRACE'S Elaine Johnson has been re-elec- , ted area director of the B.C, Lung Association. - It's a volunteer position, Johnson has been a director with the association for 12 years — since 1990, The B.C. Lung Association will spend $1.2 million on health education this year, along with another $1.5 million on medical research grants and training in the fight against lung - cancer, asthma, emphysema, tuberculosis, and occupational lung disease. - Trio-travels to Pope month to see the Pope. Thomas Kawa, 18, Christina Heslenfeld, 17, and Danielle Anaka, 16; are excited about _ their plans to attend World Youth Day cele- brations July 22, hosted by Canada this year, They've planned to spend about a week in Tor- onto. Terrace chaperone Darryl Anaka says about ‘ 60 youths from Prince Rupert, Kitimat, Hazel- : ton, Smithers and Prince George are attending i World Youth Day. Hundreds of thousands of young people from across the globe are expected to converge in Toronto, ’ THREE Terrace youths are part of a northwest contingent that's: headed to ‘Toronto later this . - Although his ailing health forced him to cancel other recent visits abroad, Pope John Paul II is expected to make the trip to Canada. Every lwo years, a different country hosts World Youth Day, a time of spiritual celebra- tion for young Roman Catholics. NWCC student Yoko Tshuchiya She'll be missed CONTRIBUTED By BOE GOODVIN YES, FOLKS - Terrace is a pretty good place to live. Pictured here is Yoko Tshuchiya from Yamagata, Japan. This charming young lady, through the wizardry of computer technology - and help from a friend, applied for and was ac- ’ cepted at our Northwest Community College to take a course in Business English. (Terrace won out over Victorial). Despite that fact that her English was kinda ‘limited, she still managed to get marks of straight As. She has been here for the past year .and will be going home shortly. Yoko says most of her time was taken up - studying, but she says she enjoyed the tea- - chers and the other students when there was time for recreation. She admits she loves coffee, likes to sleep in mornings and her favourite Terrace expres- sion is “Holy. Smoke!” Have a good trip home, ¥ Yoko. Write us (in English, please) when you get settled in a new job. ; TERRACE STANDARD: MUNITY- SECTION B ENNIFER LANG 638 (283 PRINCE RUPERT resident Paul Minhas, 12, learns to ® play, the tabla a traditional Sikh drum used in hymns. Khalsa camp honours a rich cultural and religious heritage By JOANNA WONG THE SIKH temple on Walsh Street was filled ““with%éXotic. sounds and. -fragrant, spices.as over 60 young northwestern devotees flocked to Terrace last week for special religious classes. “It’s:a lot of fun,” said. 14-year-old Terrace resident Harjinder Atwal. “I’m learning Punja- bi” From Monday to Saturday, children of alli history, religion, language, songs and instru- ments. “Anyone can come,” said head instructor Amarjit Singh Nijjar, who hopes the camp will keep children away from bad influences like drugs and alcohol. Nijjar, who’s run over 17 similar camps al- ready, is based at the Khalsa school in Surrey. A typical class day for Nijjar starts just after The children arrive around 6 a.m., with var- ious classes are held throughout the day. Aftér a break from 1-5 p.m.; everyone pa- . thers to pray. for two hours before supper. Naranjan Singh Mann, president ‘of ‘the ’ Walsh Street Gurdwara Sahib: Miri-Piri Khalsa Darbar temple, says he welcomes anyone to come and learn about the Sikh faith, A ceremony and meal is held every Sunday apes received instruction in traditional Sikh POD ‘ midnight when he rises to meditate and pray.. from 9-12 p.m. and is open to everyone. Years of hard work are starting to paying off for Terrace’s Byron Mikaloff. His Quebec-based pop band One Ton nas Just entered the Canadian Top 10 By JOANNA WONG BYRON MIKALOFF says fans of his old Terrace-based band Gypsy Moth would laugh if they could see him now. Since moving to Quebec City seven years ago, Mikaloff has been musically — and physically - transformed. Head banging long hair has been swapped for a sleek, close- cropped bleached-blond cut. And instead of pumping out ear-shattering death metal tunes, Mikaloff has become the song- ‘ writing backbone of up-and-com- ing pop trio, One Ton. Speaking by phone from his Quebec City apartment, Mikaloff laughs and says his new sound has taken even him by surprise. “We've combined so many different styles," explains Mikal- off, who sings and plays guitar. “It's like a fusion of sorts.” Or like a wild party where everyone from Billie Holiday to cabaret entertainers to record- scratching DJs has been invited. One Ton’s exotic sound, held together by energetic dance club beats, is turning heads. So far, the band’s debut album Abnormal Pleasures has led toa TV interview on MuchMusic, an article in Billboard magazine and a hit single and music video that’s topping Canadian’ charts. “Supersexworld” has entered the Top 10, something he's glad happened now that he’s, older and more grounded. °. °° "I'm 26,” he says. “I'm not in that phase where it’s pure excite- ment. I worked really hard, I knew it was going to happen, it was just a matter of time,’ Mikaloff | has known he wanted to be a musician. ever since his dad brought him home an old gui- © BYRON Mikaloff, right, with band mates Zita, centre, and Cristobal Tapia de Veer. The Caledonia grad, now based out of Quebec City, says Terrace has a great high. school band program. tar he found in the Terrace dump. The boy was immediately’ smitten with the instrument, and went onto study classical guitar: Once in high’ school, he. be- came heavily involved in Caledo- nia’s band program. “Then all of a sudden I heard. Metallica and it totally changed everything,” says Mikaloff, who started grunge band Gypsy Moth with some friends in Grade 8. “I'd never heard guitar like that,” Fond Gypsy. Moth .memories in-. clude packed shows at the R.E.M Lee Theatre. and rocking Bigs at the’ Midsuminer Festival: in Smi- thers, which Mikaloff describes as a saving grace for those: suffering from excessive country syndrome.” At his parent’s urging, Mikaloft kept on with his classical studies. After graduation, “he flew across the country to. study. at the Quebec Music Conservatory on a prestigious scholarship, | “I was from the. bush and wan- ted to get into civilization,” Mi-: kaloff jokes. “[Quebec City] was - so different - it was the most ex-. _ otic place f could go in Canada.” : Tt was at the conservatory that Mikaloft met.Cristobal Tapia de Veer, a Chilean zefugee and musi- ° cian who was to become part of the One Ton trio. “We started jamming ~ and clicked right . away,” Mikaloff- says. “We were known as the bad ‘boys of the conservatory, ” The third piece of the One Ton’ musical puzzle wouldn't fall into: place until a few years later, when! the two musicians woke up after a huge patty to the: sound ‘of a. woman singing beautifully in the shower. _ : “Everyone was like = who! Ss that singing?” recalls. Mikaloff. ‘Continued Page B4.