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4 - The Canadian Champion, Tuesday, September 29, 1998 -lùesdlay, Sgept. a Brunelios Restaurant (P) a Moore's The Suit People a Shoppers Drug Mari a Spectrum Flooring (P) 29y 1998 e St. Clair a Toys R Us (P) a Zellers aai rwith Intrepid Milton teenager is focused on rain forest trek By IRENE GENTLE Special to the Champion Local Iass Colleen Feddery is se, eager ta prevent the razing of the Costa Rican rain torest she's willing ta razor her own head for the cause. Ms Feddery, 19, hopes ta make her per- sonal debut at the rain forest in December as part of Youth Challenge Internationals (YCI.) Ms Feddery will spend three weeks in- the rain forest and nine weeks helping out a Costa Rican comrnunity. First, though, she's requircd ta raise ~ $4,000, which is pretty rnuch where the razor cornes in ta play. Bald is beautiful "A teacher at my aId high sehool put a challenge ta the sehool that if they raised $500 he would shave his head," said Ms Feddery. In fact the school, Trinity College in Port Hope, raised more than $600, and the teacher in question went bald. Since then, Ms Feddery figured that worked so well for him, she could try it herself.kI ý "I just want people ta know that if they can raise a large arnount of money I'd be willing ta shave my own head," said Ms Feddery. She is also willing ta do slightly lesa intrepid things, such as the Saturday, Oct. 3 barbecue scheduled ta take place from 10 arn. ta 4 p.m. at the new Loblaws at Main Street and Nipissing Road. She also plans ta, contact service groups and local businesses for donations, a plan that has already netted her more than $2,000.- As part of YCI, Ms Feddery is expected ta live up to four conditions, the first of which was to simply be accepted. That, Photo by GRAHAM PAINE she explained, wasn't as simple as il may Colleen Feddery, 19, wilI travel to Costa Rica as part of à esee HELP on pagel10 an international yauth challenge programn. would Ule to tbank ail applicants who apply for position, but we must ssdvise that only the appli- s chosen for the hiring competitiots wiII lie oen- - - - 0 BONUS L'riýýÀ0I (,R M 1 L E S on set of 4 BOINUS ýU AOI.0 L mi ,ES set 4..] BONU Aolo MILES set of 4 ] BONU ýýAOI.Oý M 1 L E S Set of 4 ]