Young artist donates custom painting in memory of hospice residents

Carrie Zhou chose an unlikely subject for her long-term personal school project — to interview patients at Lions Gate Hospital’s hospice.

Over the span of 10 months, she interviewed three patients at the hospice, Rosalind Zech, Deborah Haughton and Rudie Klutz. It was a project that she says changed her life forever.

“I learned that fear can be conquered,” said the Grade 11 Mulgrave Secondary School student, “and the words they’ve given me I will carry for the rest