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An open season on whitetail does has local hunters concerned about the resource. The Kettle Wildlife Association sponsored a meeting at their wildlife hall in Rock Creek last Friday night that brought out nearly 50 to hear retired Grand Forks guide/ outfitter Barry Brandow speak out against the hunt. The meeting was called to try to generate media attention and pressure on the government to shorten or stop the season on the whitetail doe because many of those at the meeting say that herd numbers are being rapidly depleted. KWA president Ron Cooper opened the meeting and turned it over to Les Best who introduced Brandow who told the meeting that he is angry about what is happening to wildlife management province-wide. “In the Boundary it has literally been destroyed,” he stated. “We have got a strong argument for change,” Brandow told the group. “A lot of you would be out there all day in your traditional hunting Continued on page 4
These BCSS students had their hair shaved or cut to raise money for cancer research. Standing: John (left), Trent, Jack, Derek, Josiah and Josephine. Thao and Dakota are in the front. While Thao still has hair in this picture it was down to her waist before the haircut. PHOTO: PAT KELLY
Students shave heads for charity
Eight students led the rest of the BCSS student body in the fight against cancer last Thursday, Nov. 21 when the BCSS Spirit Club sponsored a head shave to support two charities. The hair that was given by three young women was bundled and will be sent to Locks of Love, a public nonprofit organization that provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children in the United States and Canada under age 21 suffering from long-term medical hair loss from any diagnosis. Darline Redlich from Darline’s Hair by Design in
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Rock Creek volunteered her time to come to the school gymnasium to do the honours. A total of over $2,200 will be going to the Canadian Cancer Society to support research into brain cancer. The students raised over $400 online and more than $735 in coin over the month before the head shave. Spirit Club members also took pledges totaling $850 by Thursday morning. The idea for the drive came from Josephine Balch who told Spirit Club mentors principal Louise Bayles and
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