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C.J. gets a haircut

On C.J. Kelly’s first day of school he was completely bald. Two days earlier the 11-year-old Point Roberts resident told his mother to turn around halfway through Tsawwassen as the family was headed for a skatepark so he could shave his head at the border in support of the Cops for Cancer fundraiser. The program collects money and hair to help make the lives of cancer patients better.

“I felt bad for them,” C.J. said. “I just thought about it right then.” He donated $20 he had earned mowing lawns and several inches of hair he said he hopes will become a wig for a cancer patient. His mother Tracy Kelly had initially told her son they would stop on the way home, but she was impelled to go back by her son’s insistence that they might be closed later. “It was obviously really important to him,” she said. Tracy said she was told her son was the first Point Roberts resident to step up to the clippers.

C.J. was initially a little nervous going to school bald. “I said I couldn’t go at first,” he said, but he got no ribbing and now thinks his shorn head looks “kinda good.” As for giving to others, he said that definitely made him feel good. “Next year I might get this haircut again,” she said.

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