Cheryl Alexander hasn’t been back to Discovery Island that much since Takaya died. “It still feels a bit raw, knowing that he’s not here,” she says. The Victoria woman was back Saturday, though. . .
“I call them the wise ones instead of the wise men,” says Lance Shook. He’s the Mayne carver who inserted the good doctor into a Christmas scene he just created in the village centre. “So many people have told me they love it,” Shook says of the display, which stands in a grassy spot near the Sunny Mayne Bakery Cafe and Tru Value Foods. “It’s uplifting for the community to have something like that, and it’s a statement as well.” Statement? Yes, the carvings were Shook’s reaction to a series of bad-news stories: violent opposition to pandemic protocols, an anti-masker thumping out a Walmart employee in northern B.C., threats against Henry herself.