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Get ready to rumble, for a good cause.

Coupeville High School basketball players are launching their annual toy drive to benefit local youth, and Wolf fans will have multiple opportunities to help the cause.

When you attend CHS hoops games this month, you’ll see boxes in the lobby of the gym awaiting delivery of new, unopened toys.

As usual, there’s also a bit of a side bet to the whole thing, as one box is labeled “Girls”, and one box is labeled “Boys.”

That has nothing to do with which children will receive which toys but instead draws the battle lines between the two CHS hoops programs, as they compete to see which team can collect the most toys.

Last season, the Wolves collected 200+ gifts, and this time around they’re hoping to surpass that number.

There is home games set for Dec. 4, 6, 9, and 16 to grant you easy access to donate.

This year as well, there is a GoFundMe being run for the Holiday House, which is where the toys are dispersed through.

To see that fundraiser, pop over to:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-christmas-for-local-children

 


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Edmundo Corrales and his family.

Several communities are rallying to help the wife and young daughter of a well-loved local teacher killed in a head-on car collision Monday by Deception Pass.

Edmundo Corrales, a 2007 graduate of Oak Harbor High School who lived on Whidbey, taught Spanish and coached multiple sports in the Anacortes School District.

His connections to The Rock were many, as he played on the OHHS state championship football team in 2006 alongside current Coupeville gridiron coaches Bobby Carr and Bennett Richter.

Corrales also worked at Oak Harbor’s Blue Fox Drive-In Theater before becoming a teacher.

After earning his bachelor’s degree in kinesiology and exercise science at Whitworth University, the former Wildcat was hired as an assistant football coach at Sedro-Woolley High School, where he worked for his former OHHS coach, Dave Ward.

Corrales has worked for the Anacortes School District since 2018, where he coached golf, wrestling, and trap and skeet shooting.

Friends of the family have launched a GoFundMe to aid his wife, Meghan, and their seven-month-old daughter, Daphne.

For more info and to help, pop over to:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-the-family-of-mundo-corrales

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Families can’t wait.

As the government shutdown drags on, the need for food support grows, and community groups are stepping up to help fill gaps left by incompetent elected officials.

The Coupeville School District has launched an effort to support Whidbey food banks, and you can find the pertinent info in the photo above.

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When you support the Coupeville Booster Club, you support Wolf athletes like these young women. (Caroline Summers photo)

We’re under a month to the year’s biggest shindig, and tickets are going fast.

But they are still available, if you act now.

The event in question is the Coupeville Booster Club’s annual dinner and auction extravaganza, which is set for Saturday, Nov. 8.

All the info you need can be found in this photo:

And why support the Booster Club? Well, as I wrote once or twice before:

The boosters are the backbone of Wolf sports, making life easier for coaches, athletes, and admins.

The group annually awards eight $1,000 scholarships to graduating seniors, while also providing a yearly stipend to high school and middle school sports programs.

The boosters also provide roses for Senior Night festivities, varsity letters for Wolf athletes, meal money and goodie bags for road trips, and numerous team improvement items.

These have ranged from literature and DVDs to tarps, weight room equipment, batting cages, upgrades to school athletic fields and facilities, and t-shirts for cancer awareness nights.

Plus, the Wall of Fame in the CHS gym, which documents accomplishments from 100+ years of Coupeville athletics?

It wouldn’t exist without the support of the boosters, who provided the biggest financial contribution to its development, and continue to handle updates.

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Khyren Calhoun

Wolf Nation is rallying to support a Coupeville High School football player whose family lost their home Friday in a fire.

Khyren Calhoun is a sophomore lineman for Bennett Richter’s squad.

He and his family will be staying with an aunt for the foreseeable future, and Wolf Moms have launched a Meal Train to offer support.

You can sign up to provide a meal (or several), or by donating grocery money or gift cards to local restaurants.

“We would like to help them get through the coming month with just a little less to worry about,” said organizer Courtney Sollars.

For more info and to help out, pop over to:

https://www.mealtrain.com/trains/r04532

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