See Curly Branitt.
Curly, whose real name is Leroy Branitt, is the dour, bald foreman of the Mother Paula's construction site. He spends much of the book trying to keep the construction site vandal from delaying construction efforts, to no avail. Ultimately, after his job is threatened by Chuck Muckle, Curly is forced to live at the construction site to keep an eye out for the vandal.
Although Curly knows about the burrowing owls, he denies their presence when others inquire about them, as he has been instructed to do by Muckle. In the end, though he loses his job, Curly is happy to see the birds protected, and he even visits the site to see them.
Kelly Colfax is a reporter from the Gazette.....
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