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Wednesday, February 13 2019
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"Fill the Pig" campaign aims to help stressed families
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The Blue D Victory, fame, adulation, just ten cents away BY NICK SALTARELLI
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Nora, Shaelynn, and Kaleigh McDermott, and Marshall Claus adopt their piggy banks.
BY GLORIA J. KATCH
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Modern-day stressers, including social media, peer pressure, a lack of self-esteem, as well as other psychological and dysfunctional dis-
orders in society, all contribute to children and teens struggling with mental health. February has been designated Mental Health Month, and Pathstone Mental Health Foundation in St. Catharines has launched its first
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“Fill The Pig – Feel Better Campaign,” said Kim Rossi, Director of Philanthropy. The pig is a pink piggy bank, which can be picked up at any of the 17 Meridian Credit Union locations across Niagara. Fill it with donations and return it by the end of
the month, and the proceeds will go to Pathstone. Rossi said the fundraiser doesn’t really have an end number in mind. “We are more focussed on getting See PIGGIES Page 10
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LLOW ME TO TAKE you back in time to the mid 1960s— the Middle Ages to those of you who weren’t there, and famously unremembered by some who actually were—when iPods and digital music weren’t even so much as a Flower Child’s pipe dream. The British Invasion was in full swing, Rock ‘n’ Roll was undisputed king, and if you wanted that glorious sound beside you on the beach there was a solitary option: the transistor radio. But you had to be very cool, and better off than most, to actually own one. Transistor radios. High school kids had them, but not all high school kids. Only the very coolest. Certainly no kid at St. Mary’s elementary school had his very own. To be a mere Eighth Grader with a transistor radio? Now that would be beyond cool. Grade Eight is an awkward time of change in a See COLUMN SIX back page