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Many teams will fund-raise through the course of a year, hitting it especially hard right before the season starts. They might do it through selling cookie dough (my personal fave!) or through ads in programs or through discount cards.

Northwest’s boys basketball team has taken a different tactic — the Grizzlies will work for  donations. In an e-mail that coach Eric Hofer-Holdeman sent to a variety of people — including yours truly — he writes that his players will rake leaves, clean storage rooms, put up Christmas decorations, dust, vacuum, paint. All for the low, low sum of $5 an hour.

I could work those boys for a week! Alas, I think there’s some sort of conflict of interest there, so I won’t be hiring them. But I like the idea anyway.

Now if they were selling cookie dough ….

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