A hospital is typically not the happiest place to be around the holiday season.

However, a Port McNeill health care aide does her best to make things brighter by putting up a Lego Christmas city display in the hospital each year.

Jechell Roa has been building Lego since she was little and was always fascinated by taking things apart and trying to put them together again “like a radio” at her grandma’s house. What started the Christmas village tradition was in December 2021 when Jechell built the ‘Home Alone’ house with someone she was a caregiver for. 

When the client passed away, she began setting it up at ShopRite in memorial. Then she decided to move it to the hospital. Jechell dismantles it every year and tries to do a new display.

This year’s elaborate layout features a city consisting of a town office, book shop, boutique hotel, natural history museum, corner garage, jazz club and Tudor centre.

The display is constructed using over 50,000 Lego bricks, special parts and pieces, and is lit up with over 300 LED lights.