PENNSYLVANIA : Make-a-Wish Grants a 2nd Hunting Trip
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Another boy with cancer has been granted his wish to hunt in Alaska. And that worries the Make-A-Wish Foundation, which came under fire from animal rights groups for granting a boy’s request to hunt bear. “This is real important. This is all he’s wanted to do all his life,” said Michele Atkins, director of Make-A-Wish of Western Pennsylvania. The 17-year-old boy has bone cancer. She said Make-A-Wish agreed in November to send him this September.
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