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NORTH Shore artist Cario Clausius donated ever 309 hours of his spare time to paint all four walls of the new chapel at Covenant House, a refuge for Vancouver's street kids.

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uma y not be the years, but hadn't painted in

uC Stine Chap el, but ~ over four years because of a painting it was a labour jack of spice. He had never of love for:.North Shore painted a mural before.

"artist Carlo Clausius. He began the work in : ; January and didn’t finish until

Covenant House i is acrisis September, experimenting as intervention centre and resi-.- he went. He figures the dence for homeless and run- evening and weekend hours away youth aged 16-24. Open he has given to the project 24 hours a day, Covenant total over 300 hours. es The mural depicts various stages of forest from ruin to ‘ rejuvenation — semmewhat . . street youth in Vancouver. mirroring what might happens - - Tracy Sowa “Two years ago ‘0 it bought to young people when they TRACY Souza, elght, is one of two North Shore win- e building it had been leas- —_ leave behind the streets and ners in a province-wide agricultural art contest. ing at 575 Drake Street and embrace hope in their lives. - with more floor space avail- “I wanted to create a place : able inside the building decid-: _ where young people could ed there was rvom for a - come and let their minds be chapel where street kids might’ free” said Clausius. “Street” experience sanctuary and free-. kids come to Covenant House dom from the horrors of - 2s a physical sanctuary from the ‘streets, and now, with the

brushes again.

Clausius is an Asseciate of the Ontario College of Art, where he studied for five

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