Terry Campbell holds a magnifying glass up to his right eye. A light shines from it as he reads information from a sheet of paper.
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The attention to detail is incredibly impressive, especially considering his eyesight.
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The Christmas miniatures display started back in 2007 when Terry still had decent vision. They were out shopping around Christmastime and Kay saw a small display of some miniature buildings set up in a store in Maple Ridge.
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That small display grew slowly over the next 15 years to what it is today: a winter wonderland of tiny, snowy scenes that one could almost step right into.
A ski lift moves chairs and gondolas up and down a mountain while, at the bottom, a parade marches through the village. The train rolls around Santa香蕉视频直播檚 lit-up amusement park and then through a tunnel. Across the village, people are ice skating and playing hockey, while others stay warm beside tiny campfires. There are rows and rows of houses and shops, plus a fire station, an outdoor stage, the 香蕉视频直播楰OLD香蕉视频直播 radio station and so much more.
Many things light up, play music or make sounds.
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All of the roads and walkways connect. It is built with stairs and ramps so the figurines, if they were real, could access every area of the village.
Terry needs to be within inches of what he香蕉视频直播檚 working on to see things clearly.
Years ago, his right eye was his bad eye. In 2018, he got an infection in his left eye and his retina was removed. Now he can香蕉视频直播檛 see anything out of his left eye.
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For the past four years, Terry has been legally blind.
People are considered legally blind if their best eye has 20/200 vision or less with the help of glasses or contact lenses. Someone with 20/200 vision means they cannot be more than 20 feet away to see what a person with normal vision can see from 200 feet away.
Terry still works part time at Home Depot in the outdoor lot. He can see larger objects well enough to identify them, but he can香蕉视频直播檛 see details or describe what people are wearing or what they look like.
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Despite his poor vision, it doesn香蕉视频直播檛 stop Terry from continuing to add to the Christmas display every year.
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On the day The Chilliwack Progress visited the Campbells, there was one tree knocked over in the village, and that was it.
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The display has actually been up for much longer than expected because of a few issues: a foam mountain they made for the ski hill took longer than expected to build, there was a flood in their basement where they store all the miniatures, and COVID.
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The Christmas miniatures display will be taken down after the holidays this year and will go back up again next year. It takes about two to three months to set it up.
Kay is looking forward to that day.
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