2026 Coldest Night of the Year

Duncan
Coldest Night
of the Year
2026

Saturday, Feb. 28th

St. John the Baptist, Duncan
Team
Hosted
Walkers' Refreshment Station

Goal: $100,000   ---   $80,040 Raised 

• The CMHA Cowichan Valley Branch (CMHACVB) has been raising funds since 2022 to provide a safe place and shelter for vulnerable youth in the Cowichan Valley.
  Last year, we were able to put a down payment on a house on Hemlock Street in Duncan and begin transforming the home into our Youth Emergency Shelter (YES).
  These funds (over $250,000) were a direct result of our
  Coldest Night of the Year 
  fundraising efforts.
  The Cowichan YES is the second program of its kind in BC.  
  Mischa Lelum is located at 180 Hemlock St in Duncan.
  

Mischa Weisz was born in 1956 in Barrie, Ontario.
His life is more than a Canadian success story. 
In his 2009 autobiography, I Choose To Live: A Self-made Millionaire Faces Cancer,
Mr. Weisz tells the amazing story of his life,
from being the son of Holocaust survivors to the breakdown of his first marriage;
from being unemployed to his accomplishments
in the electronic banking business;
and then, finally, his courageous fight with cancer.

Mischa Weisz