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My Life My Words: Bridget Harrington

Bridget Harrington, a Moffat County High School senior, volunteered her time to grill burgers to help support a Moffat County 4-H fundraiser Saturday in the parking lot of Murdoch’s Ranch & Home Supply. Harrington also has been working at the west Kum & Go for two months and plans on enrolling at Colorado Northwestern Community College in the fall.
Shawn McHugh





Bridget Harrington, a Moffat County High School senior, volunteered her time to grill burgers to help support a Moffat County 4-H fundraiser Saturday in the parking lot of Murdoch’s Ranch & Home Supply. Harrington also has been working at the west Kum & Go for two months and plans on enrolling at Colorado Northwestern Community College in the fall.
Shawn McHugh

“I started working here because I wanted to get more hours and I enjoy the people. I like everyone that I work with here and I really like just about everything about it. I like so many of the people that come in here, too.

“One of the things I like to do in my spare time is antler-hunting. Instead of hunting for elk and antelope, you go and find their old horns on the ground and you collect them. It’s pretty fun. You can find moose antlers and things like that. A friend of mine found some a while ago. I’ve gotten elk, deer and antelope. You just collect them, you can put them in the shed or sell them later on. You can use them for a lot of things.

“I don’t hunt, myself. I never have because I’m scared of guns. But I know a lot of people who do it and my dad does every now and then, but it’s not my thing.



“I’m a senior in high school. I graduate in about 30 days. I only have three classes right now and then I get off and come to work. I’ve got a computer class and then an animal science class and then a work program class. I get credit just for coming to work — it’s pretty nice.

“I’ve done 4-H, I did RAD when I was younger. I can’t even remember what all I’ve done in school. I did track, soccer, basketball. I liked them all, I just couldn’t do them and work at the same time.



“After I graduate, I want to go to college here for a year and then I want go to either Houston or Wyoming. Just someplace that’s bigger than Craig. I want to study wildlife management or zoology, something like that. I really love animals. Horses are my favorite, but I love every kind of animal. In wildlife management, you might have to deal with an elk stuck in a fence and help it out or if an animal’s dying you might have to finish it off, things like that. There’s a lot

of stuff.

“I used to work at Studio 7 and I had two jobs for a while, but then I quit that job and started here. I would just work as a cashier and book appointments, things like that. I’ve worked for four or five years during the year or the summer.

“I just love working. I’m not the kind of person who can just sit around on the couch all day.”


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