Get a haircut, help out junior high football, at upcoming event

Columbia Falls Junior High football players Angus “Gus” James, JP Adams and Benjimen Morrow, all love the sport of football. They just wish they looked a little better doing it.

The seventh graders are worried that the jerseys they wear won’t make it through another season. The jerseys are about 20 years old, they say, and they look it. Grass and other stains are embedded in the white fabric and almost all of them have rips, tears and holes.

So the three boys have been working hard through their Advanced Studies Class to raise funds for new jerseys for both the seventh and eighth grade teams.

The new jerseys aren’t inexpensive, however. They cost about $3,500 for each team, or about $7,000 total, so the boys are asking for the community’s help. The new jerseys are made out of quality material and are reversible, as well, the boys note.

They’ve been struggling a bit of the fundraising end. They had a pizza fundraiser, but that only raised about $400, they said.

They’re hoping a fundraiser with Columbia Falls barber Lance Wright does a bit better. On May 3, Wright will donate all of the proceeds of each haircut toward the jersey fundraising effort from, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at his shop on Nucleus Avenue.

The boys say that people interested in helping the cause that don’t need a haircut can just drop a donation off at the school office or the event that day at the barbershop. Food and drinks will also be served.