A32 - North Shore News - Wednesday, December 9, 2015
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Young artist lights up the city MARIA SPITALE-LEISK mspitale-leisk@nsnews.com
SWEET TREATS Marina Ross, Kiana Langston and Ella Rideout make gingerbread cookies at Well Fed Food Studio in Lower Lonsdale. Well Fed chef Ann Marie Rideout will teach kids how to make their own handmade cookie gifts to share Saturday, Dec. 12, 10:30 a.m.-noon at Caulfeild Cove Hall. $20 per child. caulfeildcovehall.ca PHOTO PAUL MCGRATH
Christmas Hamza Alkhateeb is celebrating his first year – and in the Christmas – in the City of North Vancouver, and has already become a local celebrity. neighbourhood Hamza, 11, moved to North Vancouver from Jordan with his family in January. Since arriving in Canada, Hamza and his sister and brother have taken up many activities such as ice skating, karate and swimming, according to their mother, Abeer. “Actually, it was great. We are having a lot of fun. There are more activities than back in Jordan,” says Abeer, reflecting on her family’s first year in North Vancouver. This past February the family went to Cypress Mountain to check out the snow. “It was not too much snow, but they played with it,” says Abeer. For Hamza, the best part of living in North Vancouver is going to school at Ridgeway elementary, where he is in Grade 6. “And he’s so comfortable about everything,” says Abeer. “He feels everything here is easygoing.” Hamza is always drawing, especially at night before he sleeps, according to Abeer. The budding artist will draw characters of his own invention, or copy the face of a stuffed animal or doll. So it seemed only natural for Hamza to enter the city’s recent Tis’ the Season
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