As snow fell heavy across large swaths of southern Vancouver Island Tuesday morning, a hidden army of helpers were quietly working to ensure others could get to work.
Starting at 5 a.m. Nick Poulopoulos and a crew of 4x4 enthusiasts took to side streets, highways and snow-encrusted parking lots to get health-care workers to hospitals and care centres.
"I was stressed. I wasn’t sure how I was getting to work," Gagnon told CTV News. "I didn’t want to let my coworkers hang, but I needed to figure out a way. Luckily I saw the Facebook post and I got saved." In an official press release from Island Health, CEO Kathy MacNeill singled out the 4x4 club Tuesday morning.As the December storm began to intensify Monday night, a Saanich, B.C., bicycle builder was about to test a new design of his own creation.
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