A northwestern Ontario First Nation community has been painstakingly assembling the wood building blocks for a community revival.

Forest products will be the economic cornerstone behind the development of Bingwi Neyaashi Anishinaabek (BNA), an Ojibway community once displaced by the Ontario government in the 1950s.

Last August, the community held a land designation vote to ratify and proceed with a sawmill proposal.

It was a long time in the making, said Jordan Hatton, BNAs lands and resources manager. Its a positive step for the people that want to see the community move ahead.

Located on the southeastern shore of Lake Nipigon, the former Sand Point First Nation is a community thats still very much in the planning stages.

There is no current infrastructure in place for housing and the communitys population of 250 off- reserve members.

Originally, there were ambitious plans calling for a large volume cedar sawmill, a wood pellet mill and a one-megawatt co-generation plant to power the community.

But the members told the leadership that was too much, too soon.

Instead of having a two-shift, 20-employee sawmill, the leadership are re-examining the business and marketing plan.

They want us to start small and if its successful we can expand. Well build it incrementally rather than go big, said Hatton.

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Lafcadio Hearn, shown with Koizumi Setsu

Coloured perspective view of the proposed Japanese garden by Mike Roberts, FRIAI

The long established seaside resort of Tramore, Co Waterford, is to get a Japanese garden commemorating writer and translator Patrick Lafcadio Hearn one of those most admired western figures to live in that culture and who is known in Japan as Koizumi Yakumo. He spent his boyhood summers in Tramore.

Announcing the project yesterday, the Japanese embassy in Dublin pledged to provide six million yen (41,860) towards the Koizumi Yakumo Memorial Garden, which is to be laid out on the 2.5-acre grounds of Tramore House.

The grant is the largest of 48 awards this year from the Japan World Expo 1970 Commemorative Fund, reflecting the importance of a project that ambassador Chihiro Atsumi said would be a valuable addition to the cultural links between Ireland and Japan.

Lafcadio Hearn was born in 1850 to an Irish father and Greek mother and brought up by his grand-aunt, Sarah Brenane, who brought him from Dublin to Tramore on holidays. He went on to live in Japan, becoming revered as its great interpreter to the rest of the world. West to east The aim is to transform the existing, steeply sloping site into a themed Japanese garden reflecting his extraordinary journey from west to east from his orphaned boyhood through many turbulent years to ultimate peace, self-realisation and fulfilment in Japan.

Inspiration for the garden came from a trip to Tramore by Koizumi Bon, Hearns great-grandson, in September 2012.

It is also being seen as one of the fruits of visits by Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe to Ireland and Taoiseach Enda Kenny to Japan last year.

The concept was created by Agnes Aylward, who heads the Tramore Development Trust, with garden structures designed by architect Mike Roberts, drawing on his knowledge of gardens in Japan, and landscaping by Martin Curran of MBC, who also worked there.

The project has an overall budget of 500,000, nearly half of which has been pledged by Waterford County Council and the Japanese fund. It will include ponds, cascades, gazebos, ornamental planting and Japanese-style bridges and entrance gates, arranged in sequence.

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A preliminary draft of the Glen Rock school district's 2014-15 budget will be presented at the Monday, March 10 Board of Education (BOE) meeting. A public hearing on the final budget proposal is scheduled for May 5, according to BOE fiscal management chair Carlo Cella III.

The last piece needed to complete the tentative budget document materialized on Thursday, Feb. 27, as the New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE) announced its 2014-15 state aid grants to all school districts.

Glen Rock will receive general fund aid totaling $1,065,353, an increase of $54,875, or 5.43 percent, from last year's award. Debt service aid came in at $682,918, edging last year's amount by $3,209 (0.47 percent).

At the Feb. 24 BOE meeting, Cella expressed confidence that the new budget would meet the board's goal of topping out below the state-mandated 2 percent cap, but noted that much would depend upon the state aid, which had been expected to mirror last year's grants.

"You never really know until the governor sings," he quipped at the session.

The subsequent aid announcement at midweek provided positive news, as business administrator/board secretary Michael Rinderknecht plugged the numbers into the tentative document in time for the Monday night presentation.

While providing no numbers pending the meeting, Cella offered several "highlights" during his Feb. 24 committee report. In addition to observing the cap, thus removing the need for a public vote, he said the budget would have no negative impact on current instruction and programming, and that it would provide for school staff additions. He also cited significant allowances for district technology upgrades and ongoing school security enhancements, as those initiatives continue.

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