Efforts to bring an orphaned nine-year-old South African girl to the Cowichan Valley to live with her great aunt have been derailed by the federal government.
Shawnigan Lake’s Lisa Pyne-Mercier, who is originally from South Africa, has been working hard at great personal expense to bring her great niece Ryleigh Ridland to Canada for two years after her mother, Jackie Ridland, died in a remote house in the African country.
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