“No, I don’t drink all this,” From Liquor bottles to lamps

Feb 13, 2020 | 4:30 PM

PRINCE GEORGE–Booze bottles to candles and now even lamps. That is what one local is creating in hopes to raise money for two charities near and dear to his heart.

Shawn Rice began creating candles out of old liquor bottles out of his home in 2017. He began selling them to raise money for the Heart and Stroke Foundation and the Relay For Life Cancer Walk.

Rice showed us how he begins to make the lamps, making an incision on the back of the liquor bottle for the lamp cables to feed through.

The inspiration to create candles followed by lamps Rice says came from his brother, “eight to ten years ago my brother ended up with leukemia and he started doing the candles as something to help rehab his hands.”

That is when inspiration struck and he began his journey fundraising through art. Rice and his family moved to BC in 1991 from Newfoundland and within two days was offered a job and also discovered that his son, at three months of age, needed open-heart surgery.

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“He had open-heart surgery at three months, again at eight years, he will need another one…with that, it’s near and dear to me to support the Heart and Stroke (Foundation).”–Shawn Rice

Over the past three years Rice has raised $6,000 in cash and $2,000 in kind for the charities and this year hopes to raise $8,000. The lamps take about half an hour for Rice to create, and can be found at Forever Florists, in the Hart, Northern Lights Winery and Barkerville Brewery.

by Veronica Beltran

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“No, I don’t drink all this,” From Liquor bottles to lamps

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