Digest of last week

24th Nov.
I attended at a lecture of representative NPO Florence Mr.Hiroki Komazaki.
They are groups performing Sick child care service.
I had a lot of that I could sympathize with his way of thinking.

I will think the social business to be one of the important business in future when we aim at the sustainable society

25th Nov.

The 1st Tochigi Future Agriculture Study meeting was held.

About 60 members participate in the meeting and they separated small group then they discuss the future agriculture.

Last night.

We held a farewell party for Andrej.He stays in Japan for two months and returns to Slovak on December 5.I think we learned many things from him and that he learned a lot from Japan too.

Autumn festival

We attended Autumn festival yesterday that cooperated with The 2009 Tochigi Hot-Air Balloon International Chanpionshp.

We gathered about half past 6 early in the morning.

She is our leader.She tell that we will do our best all day long today. During the preparation for make rice cake.
Preparation for cooking Shimotsukenabe stew.

They are making a balloon art.
He seems so happy to make balloon art with lot of women :D

Utsunomiya city mayor came.

Shimotsukenabe stew was perfect cooked deliciously.
We cooked three times of this stew.

Rice cake making.
It's very hard work.

Our leader trying to make rice cake.

We distribute Shimotsukenabe stew to a spectator.

Many many spectators waiting in line.

We were able to distribute Shimotsukenabe stew to about 500 visitor.

The show of the comedian, the band performance were performed, too.
It was a very pleasant festival.

Ashio famous copper mine.

Ashio there is a famous copper mine town.

According to the record, the copper mine was discovered in the 16th century.

Furukawa Ichibei comes to do mine development in 1877, and it is after that an Ashio copper mine became famous.

The Ashio copper mine modernized with many new technologies.

There was became a much volume of production in the Orient in 1893.

However, pollution became the problem with production to increase.

The sulfurous acid gas killed all the trees of the mountain.

In addition, drainage including the heavy metal caused the water pollution of the lower basin and soil pollution of the farmland.

The problem of the drainage was able to be settled in 1897.

The measures of the sulfurous acid gas were very difficult and have taken it until 1956.

The Ashio copper mine was closed in 1973.

More than 38,000 people worked by most time, but the current population is 2,800.

Country,prefecture, Furukawa and a lot of volunteers plant it with trees now.

Green gradually returned to the mountain.

Let's get together

We participate in the Tochigi hot-air balloon international championship 2009, on 22nd of Nov.

Unfortunately is not a contestant; as an event participant.

Our team cook the Shimostuke-stew and serve it to a guest.

The other teams do rice cake making.

There are a stage show and a lot of pleasant events.

Please come to Tochigi hot-air balloon international championship 2009.

Let's enjoy together.