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Pollock is part of the special events committee for the Mountainaire Avian Rescue Society (MARS), the team responsible for getting Rick Mercer to Vancouver Island for a taping of his show.
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The MARS segment will be featured on the season premiere of the Rick Mercer Report, Tuesday, Sept. 26.
While the taping and subsequent airing took no time at all, the process of getting him to the Island took more than two years to come to fruition.
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That time-frame fell through, because Mercer was so involved with his (a nation-wide competition among Canadian schools to raise funds for bed nets, in the fight against malaria, in Africa).
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Mercer and his production team spent the morning of Aug. 25 at MARS, filming, and the show will be aired Tuesday.
MARS founder, Maj Birch, was part of the June 2015 meeting. She lost her battle to cancer later that year. Pollock said seeing this process through was somewhat of a tribute to Birch.
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