by Carl BR Johnson
May 27, 2013
Photo by Carl BR Johnson — Drew Woodruff gets his head shaved for Bluey Day.
Over 100 people came out to shave their heads, or to support the newly bald heads of friends and family, to raise money to fight cancer with Bluey Day’s Be Brave and Shave event. Money raised will be be used to for equipment at the Fort St. John Hospital.
“This is our 14th annual Bluey Day,” said Ashley Bentley, executive director of the Fort St. John Hospital Foundation.
“Bluey Day is where people from our community raise money on their own from bake sales and book sales with a promise to shave their heads at the event and give the money to the foundation.”
Bentley said that the money will be used for cancer treating equipment at the hospital.
A carnival atmosphere was apparent at the event, which Darren Thomson, Master of Ceremonies, conducted the event with a big top bellowing voice.
“We haven’t even started yet, and already we’ve raised $27,000,” declared Thomson with microphone in hand, to which thunderous applause and cheering was heard.
Bentley said 47 people from the community had registered to have their heads shaved, making this a daylong affair with hair flying through the breezy morning air in the name of cancer.
Wes Brown, who had his head shaved by Ricky Schumann, from the spa, came to the event after contemplating the head shave idea for about a year.
“I’ve wanted to do it for about a year now and I’ll be donating $370,” said Brown.
Lyndsay Beer, who had a long collection of hair, managed to collect $2,296 but had some measure of trepidation about having her head shaved but overcame any such fears for the cause.
“I’ve never had hair as short as this,” she said with amazement.
She said that her sizable donation of hair – at 20 inches – will be donated to Locks of Love for a wig.
Joshua Gray, a young man with an impressive foot-long ponytail, managed to collect one of the highest dollar figure donations to the foundation, at $3,797.
At press time, the event had raised $96,000 on that single day, but donations are still being accepted for the foundation.
Bluey Day has its roots in Australia, where Karl David, a senior constable for the Horsham Police Department at the time, started the tradition in 1995, in Horsham, Victoria where he worked.
It started as “Crop-a-cop.”
His intention was to empathize through action, with the many sick children he saw without hair due to their radiation treatments for cancer.
The tradition has since spread from Australia to Canada and the U.S., and from 1995 to 2010 Bluey Day has raised well over $20 million for the battle against cancer.
The name “Bluey” was so-given because of the “Copper Bluey” mascot adopted in 1997 to represent the event, as well as to signify the blue uniforms EMS workers and police usually wear.
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