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Dance community rallies for victims of residential fire Crowdfunding website raises thousands of dollars in days Travis Paterson News staff
When Javier Monsalve returned to his two-bedroom suite at 6010 Old East Rd. on Friday, he hoped to find an insurance representative there. Instead, the doors and windows of the well-known Latin dance instructor’s home were boarded up and he was told he would have to wait close to a week before he could get inside. No rush, says Monsalve, as he anticipates nearly all of his belongings are beyond salvage from the fire and water damage that ripped through the home on Feb. 2. “When I first got (to the fire), it was a moment of either choosing chaos in my mind or staying tranquil in calm waters, and I chose the bright side over the darkness,” he said. Monsalve, sister Laura and her daughter Ali, who live at the residence part time, were away when the day-time fire broke out. “I have my health, my legs and hands, my essence. This is a sign for a new beginning: the closing of one door, the opening of a new door,” he said. Supporters of the siblings set up a crowdfunding site last week, which had risen to within a few hundred dollars of its $5,000 target by Friday. Monsalve credits the great response to the dancing community he’s been apart of since he moved to Greater Victoria 12 years ago. As the founder of the Sabor Asi Dance Company, Monsalve said the Latin dancing community around it has been a source of healing now more than ever. “I believe the response is an accumulation of the budding community I’m apart of, everything goes in cycles,” he said.
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