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ongtime Nelson resident Yosh Tagami mi remembers working for 25 cents an n hour building internment shacks on the Popoff farm near Slocan City. He was 17 and his family would soon move intoo one of those houses, which measured 14 x SAM VAN SCHIE 25 feet. Nelson Star Reporter “The first winter was cold with four feet of Nelson snow, and iciclesof formed Festival Lightsinside or- so we put cardboard from boxes on the walls,â€? ganizers have requested another he says. to spend brightening up $33,300 There wasduring no insulation beyond paper Baker Street the holidays. Thshiplap, e groupand is requesting the and no indoor plumbing. money city’s Woodencome bunkthe beds lay Spurway at either end of Trust Fund, which is money putmiddle. the house with a kitchen in the aside for downtown beautifi caThey used a wood stove for cooking and Bob Hall photo tion. Last year they were given heating. $10,000 that fundand to launch “Rice from was rationed we made green St. Joseph’s elementary Grade Two student Nyah Hedstrom focusses on her Easter art project on Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Adams the Festival of Lights. tea from alfalfa leaves,â€? he says. “We Grade had aOne/Two garden and also arden class was elbows deep in paint in preparation for the special weekend ahead. See more photos on Page 2. Between the grant from the vegetabless from the Doukbought ABOVE —Even city and $5,000 fundraised by the who camee in horse hobors horse-driven driven before World War II, group, last year they were able to â€? North Shore Applicants Denied by RDCK wagons. Japanese Canadians purchase lights and decorations Tagami, now 85, was born at like Yosh Tagami for all the Baker Street lamp posts Genoa Bay on Vancouver Island were ďŹ ngerprinted and to decorate the two large coand photographed nifer trees, as well as to hostand the raised at Paldi, a sawmill community near Duncan. He Elf Walk event alongside Santa for identity ancecards application to let the couple to the Star on condition of anonymGREG NESTEROFF had four brothers and two on Baker (local actors were paid when they turned expand two16.outbuildings on their ity, explained that by applying for a Nelson Starfather Reporter sisters. Their Jirosaku, a to play elves). All the street-level RIGHT property — Thou-to a combined 4,435 square variance rather than going through millwright, was injured in a fallhoping lights were strung by volunteers, A North Shore couple to of feet (412 square meters) — more a rezoning process, they hoped to sands internees and unable to work, so the and city crews put the lights in receive one of the firstsons licenses to than times the maximum size avoid a public hearing that would were sent tofour Slocan began loggingmedical as teenagers. the trees. produce marijuana under allowed for City where they en-a home-based business make their location common knowlFestival organizers Joy Barrett new federal regulations has rundured into primitive in a residential living area — and increase edge. a bureaucratic roadblock. the number of permitted employees Story continues to conditions. Story continues to from two to Th e Regional District of Central Story continues to ‘Tagami’ on Page 3 (Tak Toyota photo) four. ‘Five’ on Page 4 Kootenay last week denied a variOne of the applicants, who spoke ‘Federal’ on Page 9
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