B10 Terrace Review —

Wednesday, September 5, 1990

Local 4-H members Trevor
Muller and Quinton Rafuse
went on the trip of a lifetime
recently. They left July 11 to
travel with 18 other young
British Columbians, all 4-H
members, and four chaperons
to Japan.

‘Canadian 4-H and Utrek, an
international exchange centre in
Japan, have linked together to
enable participants in the pro-
gram to experience life and ac-
tivities of the families in each
others’ countries. To be able to
go to Japan, and learn about a
different country, different .
people and culture, was
something the boys had been
looking forward to.

About a year ago, their
Japanese counterparts came to
Terrace to experience Canadian
life, and now it was their turn
to go to Japan. The group
assembled in Vancouver and all
together travelled.to Seattle.
There they boarded a plane for
a leisurely nine-hour flight to
Tokyo. They spent the first
night in the Tokyo Hotel.

Their very first impression of
Japan was, that it is extremely
crowded. Everywhere they
looked, everywhere they went,
there were lots and lots of peo-
ple. The next day the host
families arrived from all over
Japan to meet them. A very
warm welcome awaited the
B.C. youngsters.

The Ishibashi family became
Trevor Muller’s family. He was
not a total stranger, as last year
the Muller family had been
hosts to Masaaki Ishibashi,
when a group of Japanese
young people visited B.C. The
Ishibashis live in Yokohama.
The Yanigisawa family became
Quinton’s host family. They
have three boys, ages 13, 11
and eight. Shugo Yanigisawa,
the 13-year-old, was a guest of
the Rafuse family last year.
The Yanigisawa’s live in
Sayama.

The weather was extremely
warm, mostly in the high 30’s.
Some days it would be so hot
that the weatherman warned
everybody to say inside be-
tween 10 and 2. The Japanese,
being a very diciplined people,
obey these warnings, and not a
soul could be seen on the

., Streets, According to Trevor, it
is like living in a sauna, as the
humidity is high as well. -

Houses are air conditioned, a
lot different than ours, and
much smaller. There are not
yards around the houses. Once
you are out the front door, you

- are on the street. Japanese fur-
sniture is different from ours,
although some Japanese people
have western-style furniture. A
J apanese dining room table on-
ly’ ‘comes up to a person’s knee.
Sitting on normal height chairs,
it,takes a bit of skill to learn to
eat gracefully from a table this _
height.

- Bits’n’Pieces

'° People and everyday |
events in the Northwest

| "by Alie Toop

As for the food, Quinton
thought the food was good,
and Trevor called it interesting.
Rice is the main staple, and is
served at every meal. They ate
a lot of chicken and seafood.
They tried raw seafood, like
squid and octopus, Trevor even
tried sea urchins. .

Trevor and his host brother
Masaaki visited Japanese
Temples; and went to amuse-
ment parks. They went on a
boat in the Yokohama dock,
which has been turned into a
museum, and walked through
Chinatown. They also visited
Masaaki’s high school.

Quinton Rafuse spent his
time in Sayama. Sayama is a
city of 160,000 people. They
grow tea there. To satisfy the
Japanese sweet tooth, a plant
in Sayama produces chewing
gum in great quantities. The
Japanese love to chew gum, eat

_ sweet candy and ice cream.

Quinton’s host father, Mr.
Goro Yanigisawa, is a police
inspector, head of the crime

. division. Every division has it’s

own inspector. The uniforms of
the police are dark blue, the in-
spector’s is beige. They visited
headquarters in Tokyo, where
he saw the dispatchers at work.

.. Inside headquarters also was

the Police Museum, which he
found very interesting.

The family took him on pic-
nics, to amusement parks and
to Sunshine City. Sunshine City
is a 60-storey building with an
observatory on top. They took
the train to Tokyo a few times
and that in itself is an ex-
perience. You are pushed onto
the train by pushers, employed
by the railway, until the train iS
overcrowded and even then
they still keep pushing the peo-
ple in. And when the doors
close, your nose and toes had
better be out of the way!

On one of their visits to
Tokyo, Quinton walked around

the Imperial Palace. The city of

Tokyo is built around the Im-
perial Palace. There are
beautiful gardens on the
grounds and it is surrounded
by a moat.

Quinton and his host brother
Shugo visited a primary school
and a junior high school. At
the junior high he got to talk
to the English teacher and the
principal. Although the cur-
riculum is much the same,
there is one big difference, the
way the school is kept clean.
Every day after school, the
students collectively clean all
the rooms, and once a month
all the floors get waxed. All
this is done by the students. It
creates respect for the work
they put into it, and it creates
respect for the school.

The primary school children
don’t clean their school, but on
the grounds was a large
vegetable garden and an area.
~ where they had birds and small

Thomhill’s Quinton Rafuse got quite a welcome from his Japanese hosts on his 4-H exchange trip
to the country this summer. |

animal cages. It was called the
farm. The primary school
students are responsible for the
garden and the farm. Everyday
they take half an hour to weed
and look after the garden, and
clean and feed the birds and
the animals. In a small way it
teaches them about agriculture, |
birds and animals, and it also
creates respect for other living
things. The children taught
Quinton how to do origami
and they each made something
in origami as a gift for him.

A couple of times during
their stay the whole group and
the host families would get

together for a special outing.
They went up the Tokyo
Tower, which is the largest
metal structure in the world —
333 metres high. The highest
point for visitors to go is 250
metres to the observation deck.
Tokyo Tower is a TV tower.
They spent a day at Hakuba
camp, a ski resort. A gondola
ride took them to the top of
the 1,800-meter high mountain.
Another interesting camp they
went to was the camp at Mount
Fuji. A club called the Global
Club operated this camp for
Japanese of all ages and
foreigners to learn to sing

songs and play games in dif-
ferent languages. The languages

* taught are mostly Chinese,

French and English. The

_ foreigners who were there that

day came from Iran, Egypt,
Brazil, China, USA,
Czechoslovakia and Canada.

The very last day everybody
came together for a fun day at
Disneyland in Tokyo, a fitting —
end to a great holiday.

The boys arrived back in
Terrace on Aug. 16 with

-memories that will last them a
- ‘lifetime. .

1990 TAX SALE —_—__
Pursuant to Section 457 of the Municipal Act, on the 1st day of October - .
1990, in the Council Chambers of the City of Terrace, at the hour of ten s ii
o'clock in the forenoon, there shall be offered for sale by public auction + ww ayy
each and every parcel of the real property including improvements, upon TERRACE!
which any of the taxes are delinquent. =
The following properties have delinquent taxes as of August 31, 1990:
Folio # Address: Legal Description: - Upset Price
81.000 2809 Hall St. Lot 4 DL 360 Plan 3053 $2,912.90
424.000 4504 Graham Ave Lot 8 DL 360 Plan 7626 $4,846.00.
617.000 2701 Hall St. _. Lot A DL 360 Plan 10785 $2,853.32
4131.000 47204724 Lakelse Ave. - Lot 1 DL 361 Plan 3100 $114,603.81
1133.000 4711.Lazelle Ave. ;
Lot 6 Blk 11 DL 361 Plan 3329 _. $3,838.79
1329.000 4734 Park Ave. Lot 2 Bik 9810 DL 361 Plan 3374 $5,960.77
1444,000 3701 Kalum St. Lot 1 DL 361 Plan 3631 $3,135.57
1489.000 4742 Straume Ave. Lot 21 Blk 4 DL 361 Plan 3674 $4,606.53
1624.000 3503 Kalur St. Lot 2 DL 361.Plan 4328 $3,966.57
1721.000 4708 Scott Ave. Lot 17 DL 361 Plan 7534 $3,237.45
2542.000 4829 Lazelle Ave. _ Lot 2 DL 362 Plan 3125 $3,299.04
2648.000 4844 Loen Ave. Lot 1 DL 362 Plan 3679 $7,821.64
5481.000 4417 Greig Ave. Lot 2 Bik 3 DL 369 Plan 3094 $3,658.30
§494.000 4505 Cedar Cres. Lot 3 Blk A DL 369 Plan 3669 $9,098.01
6069.000 4915 Agar Ave. Lot 8 Blk 4 DL 611 Plan 3029 $3,407.23
6110.000 5136 Agar Ave. Lot 20 Bik 5 DL 611 Plan 3080 $2,201.24
6137.000 2704 Braun St. Lot 21 Bik 6 DL 611 Plan 3080 $2,729.46
6292.000 4818 Warner Ave. Bik 10 DL 611 Plan 3798 $2,084.30
6423.000 2901 Kenney St. Lot B DL 611 Plan 7940 $34,440.96
6427.000 5013 Pohle Ava. Lot 2 DL 611 Plan 8224 $3,108.69 -
6528.000 5120 Mills Ave. ‘Lot C DL 611 Plan 11620 — $2,649.25
6529.000. 5118 Mills Ave. Lot D DL 611 Plan 11620 $1,430.65
40028.000 4510 Olson Ave. Lot 11 Blk A OL 838 Plan 3460 > $1,894.85
11014.000:° 4808 Eby St. S1/2 of W1/2 of Bik 9 DL 977 Plan 1055 $5,478.25
11015.000 ~~ 4418 Eby St. W1/2 Lot 10 DL 977 Plan 1055 $10,321.71
11020.000 4411 Sparks St. > BIk 11 DL 977 Plan 1055 $9,033.66
11028.000. 4403 Eby St. Bik 21 DL. 977 Plan 1055 $1,865.32
11161.000 4423 Eby St. Lot A DL 977 Plan 9025 $4,434.87
11162.000 4421 Eby St. - Lot B-D DL 977 Plan 9025 $9,183.58
11169.000 4308 Thomas St. Lot B DL 977 Plan 10385 $2,631.97
14002.000 5021 Halliwell Ave. _ Bik 17 Plan 1097 $8,045.37
19002.020 3416-28 Kalum St. ot Se $544.12
19003.001. 3614-03 Kalum St. - $720.15
| 190068.002 . 3614-06 Kalum St... . _ $667.86.
19105.000 3614-105 Kalum. St... ‘s $743.32
19106.000 . 36142106 Kalum St: -- $880.01
19241.000 3624-41 Kalum St. $830.62

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