Save the date!

March 11, 2010 sharon

Hello everyone, and welcome to a new year for Catherine’s Pretty Ponytails Campaign! Catherine’s back, and she’s dragging her little sister along, too! We are so excited to announce that we are going ahead with a hair donation event and a fundraising campaign for the Canadian Cancer Society once again this year. Most of our wonderful sponsors are back on board, as well as some great new ones, too!

So, we have a few dates to announce, and would like to invite you and your friends and families to join us.

Monday May 3rd, 2010

We are once again co-hosting a celebrity server evening and silent auction to benefit the Canadian Cancer Society with our awesome sponsor Boston Pizza Orleans (3884 Innes Rd, Orleans). Come join us for a great meal with some local celebrities and other fun guests between 5 and 9 p.m. on Monday, May 3rd 2010. The restaurant will be donating 10% of the evening’s sales to the Canadian Cancer Society. There will also be a silent auction with all sorts of goods that have been generously donated by local businesses. We’ve done this twice before, and I have to say I have never seen a restaurant packed so full of laughing, enthusiastic friends, neighbours, and even complete strangers pulling together to fight cancer. It’s great fun, and a great meal, all for a great cause.

Sunday, May 30th 2010

The big day for donating hair is Sunday May 30th, 2010. Jody and the team at Regal Hair Design (2208 St-Joseph Blvd, Orleans) is generously offering their time and talents to cut and style your hair for free if you are donating your ponytail for wigs for cancer patients. In past years, we have been completely blown away by how many people give so selflessly the hair off their own head to help make wigs for cancer patients they have never met. In fact, we’ve gathered well over 100 ponytails over the last two campaigns, some from children as young as 4 years old.

If you are thinking of donating your hair on Sunday May 30th, we ask that you kindly send us an email to get your name on the list, as Jody and her team have only a limited number of spots on the day itself and we want to make sure you can be counted among our donors. If you prefer to have your own stylist cut your hair, you can save your ponytail and bring it to us that day to be counted in with our totals and go to make wigs for cancer patients. There are some simple but crucial steps to follow to ensure the hair has been properly prepared and can be used for wig making. We will post more information about that here soon, or you can always email us at ponytailscampaign@rogers.com.

Today

If you would like some more information, or would like to make a monetary donation to the Canadian Cancer Society, you can do that through our community website, which has a convenient link for making donations directly to the Canadian Cancer Society.

Thank you

Finally, just a quick shout out to all of our incredible and generous sponsors, celebrities, silent auction donors, hair donors, and other supporters. You are amazing, we couldn’t have raised over $21,000 and collected 110 ponytails already if it weren’t for you. Just think what we’ll be able to do this year! Let’s see how far we can go!

And, keep your eye on this space for news and a few fun surprises, too. Tomorrow, we’ll have a guest blogger who has written a gorgeous article about our campaign and will be sharing it here.

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