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Entrepreneur’s bright idea spreads joy to Deltans

A young Tsawwassen entrepreneur has made the most of a grid-locked job market by creating his own light hanging business.
Christmas lights
Luc Soares’ new company Rudolph's Guiding Lights has seen success over the last two months hanging Christmas lights for Tsawwassen residents.

A young Tsawwassen entrepreneur has made the most of a grid-locked job market by creating his own light hanging business.

Luc Soares’ new company Rudolph's Guiding Lights has seen success over the last two months hanging Christmas lights for Tsawwassen residents and more recently went commercial decorating the The RiverHouse Pub and Bar this week. This comes just in time for the City of Delta’s ‘Holiday Light Up’ campaign where the city has encouraged residents to collectively turn on their holiday lights on Dec. 1 at 7 p.m.

Soares, a recent University of Western Ontario Business graduate believes the campaign is an excellent way to spread some holiday cheer.

"[Its] a great idea to bring some joy and happiness for the time right now just because COVID has got a lot of people down, mental health has probably only gotten worse," Soares said.

Soares says the reason he started the company is two-fold, to explore his entrepreneurial itch and to give himself some full-time employment, a hard commodity to come by during the COVID-19 pandemic. In doing the job though, Soares has found it has been far more meaningful than he expected.

"It makes me feel satisfied and pleased that I could offer a service that was more than just the income itself. It was more about creating a relationship with families," he said.

Rudolph's Guiding Lights can decorate homes using lights already owned by the client or Soares will take a trip to Canadian Tire, where he says the staff knows him quite well now, and purchase new lights and clips.

If you are interested in having your home or business decorated while at the same time supporting a local company, you can contact Soares at luc13soares@gmail.com.