2 THE VOICE, THURSDAY, NOV. 10, 2016 EDITOR ASHLEY SINGH tlarge By LAUREN BOOTHBY e South Vancouver Neighbour- hood House is thriving after al- most 40 years. SVNH was founded in 1977 with the goal of bringing together peo- ple of “different cultures, economic, religious and social backgrounds,” ac- cording to their website. Originally focused on seniors groups and after-school programs for children, SVNH expanded to over 112 programs in 12 languages for diverse groups of people, with 638 volunteers. Koyali Burman, a community con- nections settlement worker, said the house welcomes people from all back- uA Cite iran 2) PSs rakl grounds and is “like a second home for many people.” Burman said the team continues to create new programs to reflect the changing needs of residents. Their latest focus has been on creat- ing programs that help Syrian refu- gees. “We are addressing the needs of the [Arab] community,” Burman said, and explained that the influx of Syrian peo- ple means more programs are needed for them. When it was formed, the South Van- couver neighbourhood largely consist- ed of German, Italian and also Menno- nite families. An increase in South Asian and Viet- soa igen NaS SaaS ee PHOTO COURTESY of South Vancouver Neighbourhood House Children gathered in front of the South Vancouver Neighbourhood House for an event in the late 1970s. SVNH nears 40 years of service Communities continue to be brought together by SVNH namese residents in the 1970s meant programs needed to expand to reflect the makeup of the community. Office manager Roberta Kihn, first started as a volunteer at SVNH when her daughter went to preschool there in 1989. Kihn said the most important part of the organization is being able to listen to the needs of the community. “We change with the neighbourhood changes,” she said. “It’s just all with what the neighbourhood needs.” Michelle Lui, the community youth literacy programmer, is excited about SVNH’s upcoming 40th anniversary. I’m really proud,” Lui said. “It’s defi- nitely something worth celebrating.” 66 ..likea second home for many people Koyali Burman SVNH Community Connections Set- tlement Worker Healing for rela- tives of addicts St. Mary's Kerrisdale church offers support for relatives of addicts By CHERYL WHITING problems need to reach out for support. Frances Kenny, founder of Parents Forever, a support group for family members of loved ones dealing with substance abuse issues, wonders whether the stigma of addiction stops parents from coming sooner. The group meets at St. Mary’s Ker- risdale church every second Friday evening. “TMaybe] they don't want to be con- sidered a family that had these issues,” Kenny said. “Many parents come in and they have been dealing with it for six years and haven't told anybody.” Kenny started the group back in 2000, when one of her children was fac- ing these issues and the previous group she attended, Parents Together, only focused on teenagers. Samantha, who did not provide her surname, said she did not want to have her 25-year-old son identified. She joined the support group to help cope with RY Al . her son going NN CRAB through an ad- Family counsel- ‘diction to Oxy- lor Contin. “We tried ev- erything and then someone told us about this group,” she said, “Being here with other par- ents, you feel stronger. It's not so pain- ful and you learn how to make better decisions, make better boundaries.” Mary Anne Crabtree is a family counsellor who offers professional sup- port to the group. Crabtree said that commonly par- ents want to try to control their kid's behavior and discover they can't. “A big piece we talk about is making the relationship better, so working on communication,” she said. “We recognize that maybe we can't control it [the behavior] but if we have a better relationship we might have an influence.” Kenny stressed it is important for the family to get help immediately. Posi of loved ones with addiction High-end coffee brews for wealthy Richmond residents Coffee connoisseurs can a get coffee for prices rang- ing from $12 to $25 at the Faebrew café By NICO HERNANDEZ cities around the world with a café that sells coffee for as much as $25 acup. Owner Vincent Wong, insists that his customers sit down and drink their brew at his Faebrew café on No. 3 Road from special ceramic cups that he has custom-made with fairy designs. There are no to-go cups. “The way coffee is right now is just like, you grab a cup, and most of the time you leave,” said Wong. “I wanted to focus more on a sit-down service, where I can teach or educate and guide people through the process of how I make the coffee.” His special approach is rare for the Vancouver region. Bean Brothers Cafe Bistro, in Kerrisdale used to serve $30 cups of coffee, but it doesn’t anymore. Reiss has joined a select club of Café Grumpy in New York and St. Ali in Mel- bourne have also made headlines in recent years because they serve coffees in the $20-plus-price range. Wong said he started the café in Richmond because the area “feels like home” and some lo- cal residents, especially the city’s contingent of prosperous im- migrants from Mainland China and Hong Kong, are will- ing to pay the price. “Coffee is virtually worth nothing com- pared to what they buy,” said Wong. “I’ve had people say that my prices are too low for me to make money.” He offers a unique service to his customers by asking them what type of cof- fee they would like to drink based on their prefer- ences and letting them pay after they drink it. want to drink. Customers don’t have to pay for their coffee if they don’t like it, because, he says, it means that he was unable to interpret and define what they “Tf you asked for something sour and sweet, and I made something dark and bitter, you didn't ask for that, why should I charge you for it?” Wong said. Wong sells cups of cof- fee that range from $12 to $25 because he brews foreign such as Jamaican Blue Mountain, Hawaiian Kona, and even the Kopi Luwak, an In- donesian-based coffee bean that is acquired from the feces of the Asian palm civet that are native to the tropi- cal forests of Indonesia. Vincent Tang, a second-year science and forestry student at UBC, is a friend of Wong’s and comes into the café once a week to chat with him. He said that, compared to the coffee that he gets from Starbucks, Faebrew’s coffee has more natural flavours. coffee beans, “For this type of coffee, I'd say that the higher the value of coffee is, you shouldn't add anything to it, and you should drink it as it is,” said Tang. NICO HERNANDEZ photo Faebrew café owner Vincent Wong is brewing a cup of Yirgacheffe coffee.