We have 19 hair donors so far and have raised over $2500!!! We are very excited about Kimberly’s progress and think that it is a great start and are hoping this trememdous momemtum continues. We are really looking forward to the big day. Please continue to support Kimberly and her efforts to help those with cancer. Thank you so much!!!

The owners of Boston Pizza Orleans (3884 Innes Rd. Orleans, Ontario) have once again given us the opportunity to co-host a fundraiser at their restaurant. On June 22, 2009 (one year exactly from the first hair donation and fundraiser!) they are having another celebrity server night with CTV news anchor Max Keeping! 10 % of the food sales from 5 to 9 p.m. on that night will be donated to Catherine’s Pretty Ponytails for the Canadian Cancer Society! We are thrilled!

Join us to have a good time and a great meal for a good cause…plus you get a night off from cooking/doing dishes! Micpo the balloon contortionist/magician will be there to entertain the crowd and we have already lined up some spectacular silent auction prizes and are looking for more…

Just thought you would like to know we have 14 people signed up to donate their hair with us and over $2000 raised so far and we have over a month before our first event!!!! We hope that this momentum continues! Please use the link and donate generously and feel free to leave an encouraging comment on this blog. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts, Catherine and Kimberly couldn’t help cancer patients/Canadian Cancer Society without your help!!

The campaign has sure caught on with vigor this year. All the sponsors from last year (Regal Hair Design, The Ottawa East Star, Sure Print Graphics and Designs, Loeb Cumberland Market, and the girls school) are all on board with enthusiasm all wanting to do even better than last year. We already have 12 people signed up to donate their hair and they are allowed to collect pledges if they wish! We were in L’Express the local French paper and we will be in one of the English ones last Friday (details to follow and hopefully the links too!)

Kimberly has always had a generous heart and she always helps me out. I wish she could have done it last year with me but her hair wasn’t long enough…I’m glad she’s doing it this year! I was so surprised that we got 47 hair donations and  raised $5558.12 for the Canadian Cancer Society! and Kimberly is going to add to it! Thanks sis!

I am so excited! My hair is getting in my way and I can’t wait to cut it! I had wanted to donate my hair last year but it wasn’t long enough. I prefer to have short hair but I kept growing it so I could donate it. Will you join me?

Another exciting addition is a caricaturist! He has generously agreed to come and do caricatures at our hair donation and fundrasing event. We are so lucky!!! With a facepainter and a caricaturist and a couple of other surprises our event is sure to be heart warming and fun! Thanks Amir and Lynne!

Hi everyone,

We have the privilege of having a professional face-painter, who is donating her time and talents on May 24th as a treat for the kids/adults who are donating their hair! She is so amazingly talented and super nice! She came to our house to show us her stuff…painted 8 faces while she was here of my girls and some of their friends and they were all thrilled with how they looked. What a transformation! One parent said her son didn’t look like himself at all….he was a terrifying green monster. Funny, sometimes my youngest acts like a terrifying green monster….

Check out her work on kijiji under facepainter-Lynne Art

Hi everyone,
I just wanted to let you know that Pretty Ponytails has a group on Facebook. You can sign up to get updates and chat with other people who will be attending and donating their hair or just giving their support.
We have over 100 members already! How cool is that?!!!
Join us today – just log into Facebook and search for “Catherine’s Pretty Ponytails” Thanks!
Bye!