LEOPOLD locals sacrificed their hair or had it coloured at the weekend to help raise about $1,500 for the World\u2019s Greatest Shave.<\/p>\n
Organised by Phil Hayden and Ossie LeMarquand, the fundraising event attracted people of all ages who wanted to help Aussie families beat blood cancer.<\/p>\n
Mr Hayden spent his working life as a teacher and during that time lost two students that he knows of to leukaemia.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince then research has enabled doctors to slow the mortality rate to such an extent that diagnosed early no child should die,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat 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\u2019 diseases that devastated our classrooms when I was a child.\u201d<\/p>\n
The fundraising event was held at Gateway Plaza and Bunnings, and many Leopold businesses donated considerable amounts of money in the way of vouchers.<\/p>\n
The idea was that if people weren\u2019t prepared to bare their heads, they could buy a raffle ticket instead.<\/p>\n
Mr Hayden thanked his family members Brooke, Coby, Emma, Robyn and Marcus for their help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
LEOPOLD locals sacrificed their hair or had it coloured at the weekend to help raise about $1,500 for the World\u2019s 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 […]<\/p>\n