Shave for the Brave News
YACC Community Shaves result in our biggest one-day total ever!
Posted on Mar 14, 2011
Although some communities, schools, offices, and individuals plan their own Shaves, Young Adult Cancer Canada holds them as well. On Saturday, March 12, our St. John's and Calgary offices went to local malls and Shaved a lot of heads. The end result was a staggering $130,000!
This was the 6th Annual Shave for the Brave in St. John's and we have seen how much it's grown after 408 people went under the clippers to support their home-grown young adult cancer organization. We had basketball teams, a fire department, a survivor with her kids and husband (who were cheered on by the basketball team she coaches), girls, boys, men, and women.
This was only Calgary's 2nd Annual Shave and they had around 23 people turn out, including Buzz Bishop from 90.3 Amp Radio Calgary, a bunch of mullets, some young adult cancer survivors, and Charleston Hughes from the Calgary Stampeders who Shaved after someone made a $2,000 donation!
With many more heads left to be Shaved, we can only imagine what's to come. We have been lucky to have growth each year and we are delighted to say this is shaping up to be the biggest and baldest event, once again.
Thank you to everyone who came out on Saturday. We still have nearly 30 events to go! There will be a Community Shave in Red Deer, AB on April 9 and we're working on finalizing some details for Halifax, NS; Gander, NL; and Ottawa, ON, and people are signing up to hold Shaves in their schools, offices, and on their own.
Contact us if you would like more information on how you can get involved.
St. John's
Photos by Duncan de Young, Victoria Wells-Smith, and Karine Chalifour
The Bennett family Shaved together!
Yvonne Peddle, the Avalon Mall's Client Services Coordinator, signed up and raised $1,800, although she had "a few butterflies as I waited in line to register."
Christian Legge's mom, Lori Critch, and her mother, Rosalind Critch, helped him raise over $4300!
Brian Vallis, Chair of the YACC Board of Directors, gets Shaved by Geoff
Lisa Voisey sits between James Tucker and Kevin Voisey
Mallory Seaward and Nicole Neary look at each other in amazement
Matthew Rogers, Jordan Hepditch, and Devon O'Keefe pose proudly
The St. John's Regional Fire Department got low-maintenance haircuts
Joel got his Shave number from Miss Newfoundland and Labrador, Rebecca Dawe
People donated over $1,200 to see Liam Knox lose his lovely locks
Samantha and Stephanie, volunteers, were inspired by everyone and donated their own hair before the day was out!
Calgary
Photos by Mike Byers
Survivor Theresa donates her braid!
Buzz Bishop from Amp Radio Calgary gets ready to lose his hair.
The Mullett Pageant contestants smile before losing their ugly haircuts.
Charleston Hughes of the Calgary Stampeeders gives a thumbs up to his newly half-shaved head. Don't worry, we'll get the other half next year!
