One is legitimate, the other one wasn't.
Estevan Police Service (EPS) reported this week they had made an arrest of a young woman after following up on a series of calls they had received regarding a young man and young woman going door to door collecting money for the Make a Wish Foundation using a local student's name as the apparent recipient.
The young woman has been located and charged with fraud and the police have issued a warrant for the young man who is believed to be out-of-province at present.
While questioning the young woman, police said she provided them with a note book with the names and addresses of the donors and the amounts they had donated, so the investigation will continue.
In the meantime, ECS students are continuing very legitimate fundraising efforts to assist their friend, Curtis Hebert ,who was diagnosed with leukemia in September and is now slated to receive additional medical assistance in either Vancouver or Seattle in the near future.
The ECS students are conducting a campaign selling hampers containing cookies, hot chocolate, et al door to door and to friends with the profits being directed toward the family to help them curb the expenses that will be associated with the trip west.
"The ECS students will identify themselves and they have a product to sell," said Mike Little, ECS principal who added that he had heard about the "other straight canvassing situation" that wasn't associated with the local high school, but where the participants had used the school's name to help them conduct their scam.
