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0) Tracy May, 17 and lkuyo Matsuoka, also 17, became the best of friends last year when Tracy was an exchange student in Japan. Now, lkuyo is in Port Perry and will be spending the next several months here. Japanese girl, 17, will spend year here It's a long way from Nara, Japan to Port Perry, especially with a stop-over in a tiny hamlet in Saskatchewan. Tkuyo Matsuoka, a 17 year old Japanese girl will be spending the next eight months or so in Port Perry, going to high school, learn- ing English and finding out about life in Canada. How she got from her home town of Nara, which is near Osaka to Port Perry is a bit of a story in itself. It actually started last year when Tracy May, also 17, spent a year in Japan as an exchange student through the Rotary Club in Kincar- dine, Ontario. Tracy stayed with Tkuyo's fami- ly for several months and the two became the best of friends. In August, Tkuyo left Japan to spend a year as an exchange student in a tiny village near Swift Current, Saskatchewan. For a variety of reasons, she didn't like it there and phoned her friend Tracy, who had moved with her family from Kincar- dine to Port Perry. One thing led to another and Tracy's family agreed that Tkuyo could leave Saskatchewan and spend the year in Port Perry. She arrived last Sunday, has started classes at Port Perry High School, and on Halloween Night, got her first taste ever of ghosts, goblins and trick or treats. That was a unique experience for the Japanese girl, as there is no Halloween in Japan She says she had never seen anything quite like it. Tkuyo told the Star that one of her goals over the next few months is to improve her command of English and to learn some French. She is fortunate, that Tracy learn- ed enough Japanese during her year in that country, that they are able to converse very nicely in that language. While life in Japan has some similarities to life here in Canada (McDonald's and the Big Mac are found in both countries) there is one aspect of our culture that shocked Tkuyo Canadian men actually do things for themselves around the house: like make and serve tea, help with supper, clear away the dishes, and find their newspapers It's not quite so in Japan which has strong patriarchal traditions. In fact, when Tracy was there, she found herself rebelling when asked to fetch the newspaper for the man of the house Ikuyo and Tracy have renewed their friendship that began in Nara last year But there is a small pro- blem They are trying to line up good families who would agree to billet Tkuyo for a period of time over the next several months. In the meantime, Tkuyo is looking forward to her first Canadian winter (it snows about twice a year at home) and her first Christmas celebrated the Canadian way 13 race for Separate Brd. Separate School Board supporters r Scugog Township will ve faced with 13 names on the ballot when they vote in the municipal elections November 12 The 13 candidates are seeking the four seats on the Separate Board for the areas of Whitby Scugog and Brock Townships That's an in crease of one seat over the number for this area from the term now expiring The 13 candidates who have filed nomination papers with the clerk s office at Whitby Town Hall are as follows Roger Brideau. Whitby Jan Devries. Whitby. Karl Filo. Whitby Ed Finan. Whitby Jerry Holatko. Whitby. Sophia King. Whitby Richard Marr. Whitby. Colin McDonald, Oshawa. Brian McKin- non, Whitby , Tom Oldman, Whitby. Teri Osler, Whitby. Catharine Tun- ney. Brooklin and Tia Woodcroft, Prince Albert Separate school supporters can vote for four of the 13 candidates Tuesday, November 5, 1985 SECOND SECTION Construction of a new elementary school in Port Perry is now the number one priority for the Durham Board of Education. And Board officials said last week that if things go according to plan, a new school could be open as early as September, 1987. At a news conference last week dealing with the Board's five year capital forecast and proposed site purchases, Education director Bruce Mather said the accommoda- tion situation at Prince Albert and R.H. Cornish Schools has reached the point where the Board can't add more portables because of fire regulations. "We have a very, very serious ac- commodation problem in Durham. It is one of the fastest growing school boards in the province," he stated. There are now more than 20 por- table classrooms at the Prince Albert and R.H. Cornish schools and Mr. Mather said there is a strain on the facilities at the schools. . . > . v 1] vl a >» - BA id IRAE School trustee candidate Debbie Tredway got more than she bargained for at lunchtime Thursday, when Conway Place employee Jeff Cox appeared out of nowhere to take her plate away. Board of Education officials trom Durham have held meetings with Ministry of Education people who "have been made aware of the problems." He said the Board now is trying to line up a meeting with provincial education minister Sean Conway "We don't want Durham to get lost in the shuffle," (when the provincial ministry gets around to allocating capital funds for new schools) The Durham Board is currently looking at three possible sites for a new school in Port Perry, but for ob- vious reasons the precise location of the sites is confidential. The Board's forecast calls for a six acre site for a new Kindergarten to grade six school for 336 students. The estimated cost is just over $2 million, excluding cost of the land Students from Port Perry would attend the school, as well as those from Scugog Island, who now go to class at Prince Albert Jim Russell, the Board's proper ty superintendent, said at the news Jett, outrageously dressed as rock star Madon- ew school for Port Hl gets priority status conference last week that the Ministry will make its decision next May on whether the Board can go ahead with buying the Port Perry site But he cautioned that approval to buy the site does not necessarily mean approval of the capital funds to build the school. f However, Mr. Mather noted that over the past three years, the number one school priority in Durham has been given the green light by the provincial ministry of education. Some of the preliminary plans and designs could be done by the Board before full approval, leading to a start of construction in the spring of 1987 with completion possibly by that fall, or the end of the year GREENBANK The five year capital forecast unveiled by the Board last week shows that Greenbank Public School has been ear-marked for about $900,000 1n board funds in 1988 for Turn to page 38 na, took the unsuspecting candidate by surprise as did the entire Conway Place staff, dressed in their Hallowe'en best. See inside for more Hallowe'en photos.