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A Go Fund Me page has been set up to raise money to send Emmett, the Barnes’ German shepherd, to therapy training. Find Independence for Coop at gofundme.com/indep4coop.
Carol Pearson, concessions manager for Harrison Recreation on Highway 58, says that on some nights, the tip jar might have 16 cents in it at closing. On a good night, $6.
The tip jar gives the dozen teens who work the stand a little bonus to the $5 hourly rate they are paid per shift.
But the $120 they collected during the three-month baseball season gave a huge boost to the Barnes family.
Nine-year-old Cooper Barnes is an outfielder in the baseball league. At age 5, he was diagnosed with epilepsy and, due to the type and frequency of his seizures, he can’t be left alone.