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Clinton County, New York
Saturday, October 19, 2013
WWII Vets fly to D.C. Memorial
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HONOR FLIGHT
This Week SCARECROWS
Fifteen take part in final Honor Flight of 2013 By Shawn Ryan shawn@denpubs.com
PLATTSBURGH — At just past dawn on a crisp Saturday morning, “Reveille” sounded over the parade ground at the old base oval, as a large American flag slowly crept up the flagpole. As it did, 15 North Country World War II veterans, some bent with age, one standing with the help of a walker, straightened with pride and offered a crisp military salute to the flag. This was the opening volley of the send-off ceremony Oct. 12 for the most recent trip by North Country Honor Flight to the Washington D.C.’s World War II Memorial, Iwo Jima Monument, and the Tomb of the Unknown CONTINUED ON PAGE 5
Scarecrow contest to be a part of First Weekend. PAGE 2 CPOF
World War II U.S. Army veteran Clayton Wray of Plattsburgh is escorted past spectators to a waiting limousine for the North Country Honor Flight to Washington D.C. Wray and 14 other veterans made the trip to Washington recently. Photo by Shawn Ryan
Cosmetologist creates wigs for cancer patients
Foundation aims to help corrections officers. PAGE 3
By Shawn Ryan Shawn@denpubs.com
Candy Pollard, with some of the wigs in her wig bank. Photo by Shawn Ryan
PLATTSBURGH Ñ For women going through cancer treatment, a wig can be the first step to feeling good again. But getting the wig is only half the battle. Like natural hair, a wig needs to be styled to fit the individual wearer. There is no “one size fits all” wig. Candy Pollard, a cosmetologist at Zeina’s Salon in Plattsburgh has been cutting and styling wigs for cancer patients for over 20 years. For most of that time she was a volunteer with the American Cancer Society’s Look Good, Feel Better program, but has recently stepped aside to allow some “new blood” into the program. When she first got involved in Look Good, Feel Better, it was because she had family, friends
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and clients who were all going through cancer, and wanted to find a way to help them and the community. “I still do the wigs,”Pollard said. “And I give them a 20 percent discount, because I’m not here to make money off them. I just want to render a service.” Physicians will typically write a cancer patient a prescription for a “cranial prosthesis,” the medical term for a wig. The woman would then pay out of pocket for the wig, and seek reimbursement through her insurance company. “I’ve never had it not fly in all the years that I have done it,” Pollard says of the reimbursement process. “In this day and age who is going to have a wig
Board discusses the November First Weekend. PAGE 5
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