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“The demographic has changed,” Waite said. “We’re seeing working people, mainly servers.” The pandemic has been brutal on the hospitality sector. “People come in here crying because they’ve never been in a food bank before and don’t know the process.” Yes, well, we’ve heard a lot of that this year, not just from CMS it stands for Cobble Hill, Mill Bay and Shawnigan Lake but from food banks in Sooke, Nanaimo, Duncan, the West Shore, the Saanich Peninsula, the Comox Valley… The good news? All of them, along with the Salvation Army, Mustard Seed Street Church, Victoria Women’s Transition House and a dozen other agencies from Campbell River to Mayne Island, just shared a quarter million bucks that dropped in their laps, unexpectedly, courtesy of the Times Colonist Christmas Fund last week. ....
The local company hit a high-water mark last year by bringing in Edmonton’s Ukrainian Shumka Dancers, Canada’s only professional Ukrainian dance company. The Shumka Dancers are back again this week for several performances of The Nutcracker, albeit none that will put anyone on stage at Dance Victoria’s traditional home, the Royal Theatre. It’s 2020, after all so performances of Tchaikovsky’s Christmas classic running Thursday through Sunday will be offered virtually. “We had it live last year at the Royal Theatre and people went nuts,” said producer Stephen White of Dance Victoria, who arranged to use a live performance video of the Shumka Dancers doing The Nutcracker once COVID-19 hit. ....