Would you shave your head for a child?
Participants in a St. Baldrick’s event shave their heads in exchange for donations towards finding cures for childhood cancers and giving survivors long and healthy lives. It’s a simple concept, a fun time and a very effective fundraiser. The St. Baldrick’s Foundation funds more childhood cancer research grants than any other organization except the U.S. government.
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TeamBrent is going Old School!!!!! For our 8th annual event we are going to revisit our roots and celebrate the bravery of those going under the clippers. Please join us on Sunday April 1st @ Tomlinson Middle School in Fairfield and watch Salon V shave heads on the auditorium stage. Doors open at 10:45 with Opening Ceremonies at 11am, featuring sportscaster Deb Placey and TeamBrent’s Mike McCreesh. Registration and shaving will open immediately after opening ceremonies and remain open until 3pm. Enjoy music by DJ E-Train, head painting by Once Upon a Face Paint and Faces by Wells and photos by Heidi Curran Photography & Ben Sachs Photography. Come hungry! The best of the areas bakers have teamed up for an over-the-top bake sale, and Skinny Pines brick oven pizza and Christophe’s Crepes will be parked out front.
A free and easy (cheek swab) bone marrow drive will be going on so that interested, healthy adults can join the Be the Match bone marrow registry & potentially save a life. Over 100 people registered to become donors at last year’s event. The Be the Match registry services patients who need a matching unrelated donor willing to donate stem cells on their behalf for a transplant.
Please join us to shave, watch the fun, shop the bake sale or register to be a bone marrow donor. In the US, Childhood cancer kills more children than any other disease – more than AIDS, Asthma, diabetes, cystic fibrosis and congenital anomalies, combined. One in five children diagnosed with cancer will not survive. It’s not ok. No child should die of cancer, and together we will shave and fight until we make that happen.
There are so many ways you can make a difference. Join us.
Register now @ http://www.stbaldricks.org/events/mypage/62/2012
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We will be kicking off the celebration the night before with our long time partners, the Sound Tigers. We will not be shaving heads at the game. Bring your skates for open skate on the ice after the game. Join us March 31 for St. Baldrick’s night at the Sound Tigers game (Webster Bank Arena at Harbor Yard) then come Sunday and go bald!
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Join us on facebook: group: TEAMBRENT to keep up on ways to help the cause or go to TeamBrent.com to learn more.
Thank you to Salon V, DJ E-Train, Success Printing and Copying, Face Painting by Wells, Once Upon a Face Paint, Heidi Curran Photography, Keough’s Hardware, Ben Sachs Photography, Tasti D Lite, Vertigo, In the Field photography, Ashley Skatoff photography, Sweet & Simple, emcee Deb Placey, stylist Margie Branca, vineyard vines, Be the Match Registry, Cinch & Nauti Dolphin for the support!
Thank you also to the many groups that continue to branch out and start events – the money goes to the same place and the message gets stronger and stronger as the # of events increases. No kid should die of cancer and we CAN change it. Thank you.
If you can’t make our event, check out the always fabulous St Baldrick’s event run by the Waterbury Firefighters. Join them on May 20th from 12 till 6pm @ the Waterville firehouse to raise money and have fun – or go to Stbaldricks.org to find an event in your area.
We all rest in the shade of trees that we did not plant.
Another way to support St. Baldrick’s is to stop by Cinch prepared food market, in the Fairfield Sportsplex complex and pick up some TeamBrent Ravioli – portion of proceeds ALWAYS go to TeamBrent! While Cinch just made a generous donation to our Dana Farber fund for the last six month’s sales, we are now directing funds to the St Baldrick’s Foundation. Make life easier & do good at the same time!!!
It’s hard to believe that making a difference can be so much fun!
Event Committee: Jane Kronick, Kristin Nierman, Courtney Yanni & Becky Andronowitz
Sound Tiger Night: Greg Berg
Each year the St. Baldrick’s Foundation officially Knights an elite group who has helped shape St. Baldrick’s by being involved for at least seven years. There are currently under 750 Knights of the Round Table worldwide. We have been pleased to honor 15 people at our events:
2011 Becky Andronowitz, Tom Andronowitz, Rich Baron, Mike Donahue, Roger Haney, Bill Keough, Jane Kronick, Dana McCreesh, Mike McCreesh, Scot Parnell, Deb Placey, Pete Reiter
2012 Dennis Brown, Todd Goodfellow, Matt Wilcox
