Article content originally published in Grant Haven Media on November 10, 2026 by Casandra Turnbull

Students from Paris District High School posing with kitten who they helped rescue from underground pipe.
A group of Paris District High School students turned an ordinary afternoon into an extraordinary act of kindness recently, spending nearly two hours rescuing a frightened kitten trapped inside an underground drainage pipe.
What began as a desperate search for the source of faint meowing ended with a heartwarming rescue, a community coming together and a tiny kittenfinding a forever new home not far from where it was saved.

The rescue unfolded Friday, Oct. 30, near the intersection of Trillium Way and Grand River Street North, where a kitten, believed to be approximately six weeks old, had become trapped inside a pipe running beneath the roadway.