MIA Sheldon of Clarke's Martial Arts gets a kick out
of giving a kick to a mannequin in the studio at Dollar
Shopping Centre on Doltarton Highway.

18 - North Shore News — Wednesday, Apri! 19, 2000

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NEWS photos Paul McGrath

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BUSINESS
Earth, wind, water but no fir

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ELEMENTS clothing store clerk Barb Canning takes
a break on the big boulder in the middle of the small
store.

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since it’s been out.”

Neat door at Tom Bo
Sushi, chef/proprictor Sam
Sun is working as busily as a
red dragontly.

The insect is, after all, the
English translation for the
sushi bar’s name.

The restaurant opened I
1/2 years ago.

Sun, who is from Fujhou
in China’s Fujian) province,
was trained in the edible art
of sushi in Japan Li vears
age.

Sun says no one wpe of
sushi outsells another at the
vat-in/take-our restaurant.

“All our sushi on the
menu is popular here,” he
said.

An art of a different sort is
tacked around the corner of
the complex. Martial arts, to
be precise.

Clarke's Martial Arts has
more than 200 students of var-
ious forms of Asian self-
defence and combat, from tae
kwon do to ju-jitsu. The five-
year-old studio also has a loca-
ton in Westview.

“I had been in sports all my
life and then I found martial
arts,” said Mia Sheldon, a stu-
dent and instructor under mas-
ter Darren Clarke. “The bene-
fit you get out of martial arts is
amazing.”

One might be amazed by
the boulder inside Elements.

ft is, according to clerk
Barb Canning, a small store
with a big rock.

“There's a titde bit of
everything for everybody,” she
said.

Cargo pants and shorts,
popular with the skateboard-
ing and snowboarding set
atonyside slacks and other
items more suited for older-
folk,

Elements not only has a
boulder in the middle of the
store, bur an artificial waterfall
neaz the changing coom.

When the door is open,
wind enters. The only element
missing is fire. That's the way
Canning, tikes it.

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