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Really now. There are very few situations in which you NEED long hair—and you made the sacrifice. We want to thank all those who participated—it was a great success!
Johnny Gruelle
Whether you call it a town, community or a village as my 85-year-old aunt refers to her town, the result was the same and demonstrated our need for each other. For a first-time event, Aiken, SC, and the surrounding Central Savannah River Area raised more than $3,100 for the St. Baldrick's Foundation, the largest funder of childhood cancer research after the federal government. We raised nearly $200 per shaved head (yes, some women were shavees!) by the close of the event compared to an average of $490 per shavee for established events.
This might not seem like a huge amount of money, but it will provide two-thirds of the funding required for St. Baldrick’s to sponsor a summer fellow specifically working on childhood cancer. St. Baldrick’s has sponsored two research grants at the Medical University of South Carolina on neuroblastoma, a prevalent childhood cancer.
I ask for your voluntary help to push the Aiken event even higher. Please consider a financial contribution to the Aiken event, so Aiken is directly responsible for sponsoring even more research. You may donate securely online at www.stbaldricks.org/events/mypage/eventid/5552/eventyear/2011. Let's offer our children the opportunity to be free of, as well as deliver a solution to, cancer.
Reader Comments:
So far we have 2 Shavees. We have two ladies who have agreed to walk in solidarity with the Children and shave bald. One has registered as a Shavee, please support her at - http://www.stbaldricks.org/events/mypage/eventid/5552/eventyear/2011
The other Lady has laid down a challenge to us; If we raise $5K at the Aiken SC event she will shave bald at the event. Sashay readers and all Ladies, I believe she is talking to you and has drawn a line in the sand to see if you will “Step” as we say in Soccer parlance.
Can you Step to the help her?
UPDATE: Ladies you are turning out in record numbers 4 Ladies have signed up to be Shavees, that is 50% of our total! You are AWSOME. Can you get to an even Dozen Female Shavees?
We have special incentives for female Shavees, gifts of handmade Truffles and ice cream.
Check your progress at http://www.stbaldricks.org/events/mypage/eventid/5552/eventyear/2011
and put your money where their hair was!
I can hardly wait to get my head shaved and show others what it means to the kids that we are willing to share this with them so they understand they are not alone in this fight for life!!!