LIKE A HURRICANE

When not on the sales floor, Debbie Barnes is pounding the skins for her band

Roots employees are an impressive bunch of highly talented, multi-tasking individuals. Take Debbie Barnes for example. When she is not selling at the Roots Robson Kids store in Vancouver, this full- time Store Manager plays drums in the pop punk band Hurricane Kitty.

Founded in 2002, the three-member, all-girls group is now recording its first album. The band recently took centre stage at a benefit show held to raise funds for the Terminal City Roller Girls, a Vancouver Roller Derby League making waves on the West Coast.

Debbie, who is celebrating her ninth anniversary at Roots next week, has been part of the Robson Kids store since 2001. Prior to this she worked as the Manager of the store in Vancouver’s Pacific Centre.