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Vol.8 • Issue 17
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‘We need to acknowledge what was done in our past’ Diana Morita Cole releases internment memoir Sideways WILL JOHNSON Nelson Star elson author Diana Morita Cole spent the first year of her life in a Japanese internment camp in Minidoka, Idaho, but it would take decades for her to emotionally process her family’s experiences there. As a second-generation Nikkei émigré, she didn’t yet know about the extraordinary persecution that occurred worldwide during World War II. But as she set out to research and write her memoir Sideways: Memoirs of a Misfit, she was repeatedly staggered by the sheer scale of the hatred her people faced. “It was a really mind-blowing experience to realize that this wasn’t just unique to my country and to my family, but it was happening throughout the Pacific Rim,” said Cole, who is preparing to share her newly released book with a pair of local launches and at the Kootenay Storytelling Festival. “I would be misrepresenting myself if I said I’m not angry, but one has to channel that anger into something productive. I’m trying to achieve some form of transcendence, of self-understanding, but I also want to add to the literature that examines the displacement, imprisonment and resettlement of the Nikkei in the Americas.” Having married Wayne Cole — Nelson’s former chief librarian — she was living on the east coast and raising her son when she witnessed
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to places like the Langham Cultural Centre in Kaslo and the Nikkei Memorial in New Denver that I become better more informed.” That started her on a multi-year project to channel her memories into a publishable form. “This is something that has taken my whole life to do. I don’t think I became cognizant of the need to write my memoir until I got older. Then I became involved with a biracial couples group in London, Ont. I realized through our discussions the need for us to tell the stories of the discrimination we’d all faced.”
BILL METCALFE Nelson Star Nelson city council has given final approval to a re-zoning of land for Phase 2 of the Nelson Landing development. Nelson Landing is a mixed commercialresidential development of 265 housing units proposed by Storm Mountain Development Corporation on the old Kootenay Forest Products site on the shore of Kootenay Lake. Phase 1 of the development, which will consist of eight housing units to be priced at around $400,000 is currently beginning construction. That portion of the project did not need its land rezoned. Phase 2, rezoned by council on Monday, would allow up to 257 more units up the lake toward Red Sands Beach, as well as a public marina, all phased in over ten years as part of a development agreement with the city. If 70 housing units have been built by then, the phase-in period will be extended to 20 years. The details of the re-zoning as presented to council this week are attached to the online version of this story at nelsonstar.com. The rezoning dealt with such things as building setbacks and heights, lot sizes, parking, green space, sidewalks and driveways, and allows for a high degree of density in the development. The rezoning application went to a public hearing on June 11. Council did not officially approve the rezoning following the hearing because for development agreements of 20 years or more, the provincial inspector of municipalities must approve the rezoning, and it has taken all summer for that to happen. One change made following the June public hearing is that the developer will contribute $500 per residential unit to the city’s affordable housing fund, not $250 as originally proposed. As for the eight residential units of Phase 1, Allard Ockeloen of Storm Mountain Developments told the Star his company has finished building a retaining wall for the waterfront pathway. The developer contributed the pathway to the city
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Nelson author Diana Morita Cole will release her Japanese internment memoir Sideways with two took book launches and a Kootenay Storytelling Festival appearance. Will Johnson photo him being discriminated against for being biracial, and realized the dearth of historical education materials available in libraries and schools on the subject of Japanese internment. “Much of the history in Canada is very provincial, and I’ve found the consciousness has not spread across the entire country. For instance, no one I knew in Nova Scotia had heard about the imprisonment of the Doukhobors or the enslavement of the Ukrainians. They didn’t know much about the residential schools or the camps for Jewish refugees in Quebec City and in Minton, NB. When I finally moved to Nelson it was due
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