School colours

Oct 13, 2021

Some guys will do anything to cover up their grey hair.

The school community at North Addington Education Centre in Cloyne have always taken pride in raising funds for the Terry Fox School Run.

After all Terry Fox passed through Kaladar on his famous run.

This year the goal of $2,500 was easily reached, and the school started to look at reaching its all time record, from way back in 2004, $4743.60.

To provide further motivation, the school's Principal, John Mooney, and Vice Principal. Jamie McCullough, got involved.

The school colours are yellow and green and they committed to dying their hair yellow (Mooney) and green (McCullough) if that total was reached. Late last week, as the $4,000 mark was reached and exceeded, plans were made for the dye job, just in case.

By the Friday before Thanksgiving, the old record had easily been surpassed, and a new mark of $6,800 had been set.

VP McCullough followed through on the weekend, posting a video of his dye job on Twitter.

Principal Mooney will have yellow hair by the end of this week.

The fundraising campaign didn't slow down over the long weekend, however. By Tuesday afternoon, the total amount raised was at $7606.20. And counting.