News in Tendo (4th week in Feb, 1999)

Feb. 28 (Sun.) (the highest 1.8C /the lowest -4.5C /weather - snow)

Feb. 27 (Sat.) 2 winning of Mr.HABU (the highest 9.8C /the lowest 2.2C /weather - rain)

Mr.Yoshiharu HABU with the professional Shogi title "Kiou" had a victory by 134 turn at the 2nd station of the 24th term "Kiou". This time Mr.Yasumitsu SATO with the title "Meijin" challenges Mr.HABU. It became 2 winning streak following the first station, and more became 1 win to 9 winning streak achievement of the Kiou title. The 3rd station is held in Okayama City from Mar 8(Monday).

Mr.HABU, the Kiou will come as a commentator in the Ningen Shogi(Human Japanese chess game) of this year in Tendo City.

Feb. 26 (Fri.) (the highest 10.8C /the lowest 1.1C /weather - cloudy)

Feb. 25 (Thu.) VICS, from the 13th year of Heisei(2001) (the highest 5.7C /the lowest -0.1C /weather - fine)

The VICS is infomation system for car drivers. We can know about many various traffic infomatiom, regulations, traffic jam, etc. In Yamagata prefecture, they will start the VICS from the 13th year of Heisei(2001).

In the Tohoku district, that service is started in Miyagi Prefecture and Fukushima Prefecture, next to Yamagata Prefecture, in the 11th year of Heisei.

Feb. 24 (Wed.) Yamagata airport actually use expansion (the highest 4.6C /the lowest -3.1C /weather - cloudy)

Yamagata Prefecture announced that the number of passanger of the Yamagata-Tokyo fllight increased about 1,000 compared with the same time of last year. They think that the activities of the using promotion campaign bore fruit. And they hope to realize more 1,000,000 passangers in a year, too.

Feb. 23 (Tue.) Questionnaire about joint in Kaminoyama (the highest 6.3C /the lowest -0.9C /weather - fine)

The other day, Kaminoyama City and Kaminoyama Junior Chamber did the questionnaire about the wide area merger. The result show that more than 50% of the answers agree the wide area merger. But exceeded 30% of the answers think they are lack of the information about it. They say that they have a meeting about it in the 11th year of Heisei(1999).

Tendo Junior Chamber will also do a questionnaire. Well, what kind of result will it be ?

Feb. 22 (Mon.) Unofficial notification of the budget in 1999 (the highest 4.6C /the lowest -2.4C /weather - snow)

They unofficially notified a budget bill in Tendo City to the municipal assembly at the time of the 11th year of Heisei(1999). The total amount of the general account was 18,450,000,000 yen and became 4.8% of the decreases in comparison with previou year. There are main business in the 11th year of Heisei(1999) below.

2-level crossing for the Yamagata shinkansen: 1,085,440,000 yen
Parking lot maintenance around Tendo station : 135,950,000 yen
Kuwanomachi land readjustment business : 201,000,000 yen
Crematory reconstruction : 171,510,000 yen
Welfare bus introduction : 12,010,000 yen

"News in Tendo"