Sport Clips Launches 'Help a Hero' Fundraiser

DULUTH – Sport Clips Haircuts is doing its part to help our military.Thirteen-hundred stores across the U.S. and Canada, including three Duluth stores, are hoping to raise $600,000 for its Help a Hero program. All donations go toward educational scholarships and free phone calls for military overseas. Each scholarship provides up to $5,000 of assistance to those who are pursuing an education at post-secondary institutions, including trade schools."Honestly, it's giving back. We are protected by them. They serve for us, so this is a little piece of the Duluth community being able to give back to them," said Rhiannon Buckwalter, manager at Sport Clips.The fundraiser runs through Nov. 11.Sport Clips will hold "The Biggest Haircut Day of the Year" on Veterans Day, when each store will donate a dollar from every haircut service to the VFW-administered scholarship program.