Cops for Cancer at Oak Bay High School

Every September, a group of students from Oak Bay High School in Victoria get together to organize a huge fundraiser in support of Cops for Cancer’s Tour de Rock and the Canadian Cancer Society. The Tour de Rock is a team of police officers and media figures who gather from all over Vancouver Island and cycle the length of the island over a period of 15 days. On their tour, they stop in almost every community to raise money for pediatric cancer research, as well as Camp Goodtimes, a summer camp for children affected by cancer.

Some of the events that were organized this year by a dedicated team of students at Oak Bay included a community barbeque, a school dodge ball tournament, a bottle drive, and, of course, our annual head shave and pie toss. The bottle drive alone raked in a total of $3,000 in one single day of collection. Many students volunteered their time during this campaign to go canvassing from door-to-door, while others were involved in the planning process of our hugely successful auction. Eleven students volunteered to have their heads shaved on September 29th in support of children suffering with cancer, and several other students, who were not so willing to part with their locks, decided to wax their legs instead.

By the time the riders arrived at our school on October 1st, the hard working team had raised a grand total of $25,192.90. This is a record for the Oak Bay High School Cops for Cancer Campaign, and, being the shortest campaign in its history due to the late start of school this year, the students who spent the majority of their September putting an incredible amount of effort into this project truly deserve to be congratulated.