Leopold locals brave the shave for a good cause

LEOPOLD locals sacrificed their hair or had it coloured at the weekend to help raise about $1,500 for the World’s Greatest Shave.

Organised by Phil Hayden and Ossie LeMarquand, the fundraising event attracted people of all ages who wanted to help Aussie families beat blood cancer.

Mr Hayden spent his working life as a teacher and during that time lost two students that he knows of to leukaemia.

“Since then research has enabled doctors to slow the mortality rate to such an extent that diagnosed early no child should die,” he said.

“What we need to do now is put a lid on leukaemia in the same way we have whooping cough, measles, tuberculosis, diphtheria, poliomyelitis and a whole range of kids’ diseases that devastated our classrooms when I was a child.”

The fundraising event was held at Gateway Plaza and Bunnings, and many Leopold businesses donated considerable amounts of money in the way of vouchers.

The idea was that if people weren’t prepared to bare their heads, they could buy a raffle ticket instead.

Mr Hayden thanked his family members Brooke, Coby, Emma, Robyn and Marcus for their help.