Pepper's hair will vanish tonight!
 

To all of you who have become accustomed to seeing me with my wild red mane atop my head - prepare yourselves, because tonight it will be shaved away! :)

At 7:00PM this evening, on the front patio at Waldo's, my head will be shaved as a fundraising effort for St. Baldrick's Foundation. St. Baldrick's is a nationwide organization that raises funds for children's cancer research, education and treatment.

There is a large water bottle on the counter at Waldo's, and folks have already begun to donate to the cause. By the end of the season I hope to raise $10,000! I am doing this in memory of my beloved sister who passed away this past November, and I hope to raise as much as possible in her honor.

If anyone would like to witness the event, be sure to be there before 7:00! But be sure to wear your shades - :cool: - I don't want my gleaming bald head to blind anyone! :D

Hi Pepper,
What a wonderful thing you are doing. It takes a lot of guts to do that when you have beautiful long hair. My daughter has had her hair cut three times now and ready for the 4th. She does it for Wigs for Kids and has been doing this as her own idea now since about the age of 9. Good for you!!!

Sounds like a great reason for party or WP Fest!:)

Pepper what a grand gesture!

Locks of Love
 

If your hair is long enough (10 inches or more, I believe), you can donate it to Locks of Love who will use it to make wigs for children who have lost their hair due to chemotherapy or other medical reasons. My 11 year old daughter just did it!

Here's the link:

www.locksoflove.org

Pictures
 

Before :)

and after :eek:

pictures are required!

Pepper
 

You are a really special person! What a great tribute to the memory of your sister. Mrs. HC and I will see you this weekend and would love to contribute to your cause and I know you'll reach your goal with all the Forum Festers and Festerettes out and about. We can't wait to see you! HC

Pepper Rocks!
 

Pepper, you just rock!!!

Way to go, Pepper!!!!!
 

You are one classy lady! We'll be adding to your jar over the summer.

BTW, I have a cat that likes to sleep on my head. Would you like to borrow her to keep your head warm at night? Warning . . . she snores!:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

TV Coverage?
 

Will WMUR cover this?

My hat is off to you for this gesture.

Just think, you will save on hair nets.

You have red hair ????
 

Pepper, I never noticed you had all this beautiful red hair I have been hearing about.....I never got past your beautiful inner personality :D

You are an incredible woman with the biggest heart I have ever come across...Mee-n-Mac will be by this weekend to help stuff that jar :)

With much admiration,
--Mee

P.S. I think we should donate any/all proceeds from the Forum Fest III this year to the St. Baldrick's Foundation !!

Great....
 

...idea, Mee-n-Mac! (Applause)

I agree . . .
 

and the Quilt Lady is willing to limber up her fingers if others agree with "Mee".

Excellent idea! I'll drink to that!http://www.planetsmilies.com/smilies.../party0036.gif

Pepper you are the best! ...and that compliment by Mee-n-Mac? Wow!

I think you will look like Sinead O'Connor with a shaved head!

http://i.rollingstone.com/assets/rs/.../23016_med.jpg

You'll get used to it
 

Take it from someone who knows, you'll get used to it. Although it takes alot more guts to shave your full head of hair than it was for me to cut the last 4 strands I had a few years ago. We'll be in this weekend to contribute & witness the results.

Photos Forthcoming!
 

I am planning to attend this terrific event and will attempt to record it for all to see!

Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

Pepper, you are truly an amazing woman! Talk about an act of love! Please accept my condolences on the loss of your sister, I gathered from some posts you had lost someone dear to you and now I know who. Thoughts and prayers are with you and yours. Regarding your haircut, I wish you the best, and I'll definitely be contributing! I assume, BTW, it's okay to send a donation via the mail just to make sure it gets there as I'm not sure when I'll be up?

Get Ready, Set............
 

........your VCR, DVR, whatever you use to record! I called this into WMUR at about 5:20, they are going to do their best to get a crew there for coverage on tonight's 11:00 broadcast. Great idea, GTX, hope you don't mind that I ran with it!

Coming Attractions!!!
 

At this moment, DRH is working on the pictures he took of the great event. Soon, everyone will be able to enjoy the buzz by buzz action. It was quite an event!

Pepper . . . you are one COOL Lady!:coolsm:

What a wonderful gesture! We will be happy to help fill your water jug if you continue to happily fill our stomachs.:liplick:

Here's Our New Pepper!
 

Anybody recognize this lady? :laugh:

http://www.echoshores.com/Pepper/Pepper13.jpg

Click Here for more photos of Pepper losing her red mane.

WOW - You Look Marvelous!!!!
 

Pepper I firmly believe this is a wonderful tribute to your sister's memory and to help children thru St. Baldrick's Foundation is a great jesture. You are so beautiful inside and out.

BTW you look marvelous!!!! :D :D :D :D :D

I am very sorry that I could not make it tonight as schedules changed preventing my attendance :( but you were in mine and Katie's thoughts:eek:.

LOL and see you soon...hopefully this weekend.

Thanks Don for the photo!

Thank you!!!
 

Thank you - all of you - for supporting me in this endeavor! Your kind words truly warm my heart!

DRH - I cannot thank you enough for your buzz-by-buzz photography, and for helping me share this event with all my forum friends! Having you and Quilt Lady there to share this evening with me means more than you will ever know! ;)

Waterbaby - WMUR did not make it, but we did have a reporter/photographer from the Citizen! Thanks for thinking to alert a much larger media then I would have! You're sweet! :D

To all who wish to make a direct donation, you can do so via my page on St. Baldrick's website. You can reach that page by clicking here http://www.stbaldricks.org/ShaveePho...umber=15338634

To those who have already accessed that page and make donations - you knocked my socks off!!!!! :eek:

The generosity of members of this forum never ceases to amaze me, and I am blessed and honored to call so many of you my friends!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm truly overwhelmed ...

Beautiful Woman
 

You are quite a woman... I understand the depth of anguish over your loss and commend you on doing something!

I will be contributing to your jar when I come for a lobster roll... soon.

Love you
IG

Shave the head ..but not the smile
 

Pepper you can shave your head but not your smile!
Wish I could have been there, but very happy DRH captured the event.
Hope your jar is filling fast and furious!
:D

amazing
 

Pepper...
What an amazing thing to do in your sister's memory. You are a very special person to turn such a negative into a positive. Now...just don't forget that you'll need sunblock in a new area :laugh: Best Wishes

All you need is a tootsie pop
 

Pepper,

All you need now is tootsie pop and you can be Kojak! May we call you Pepperjak? Thats not to cheesy is it?


"Who loves ya baby?" It seems like everyone!

:laugh: I just spit coffee all over the laptop! :eek: :D Thanks for starting my morning with a hearty belly-laugh! That was hilarious.

IS - you know me - I'd rather laugh than cry! My dearest friend in the world once told me she think's I spend 80% of each day laughing. I think she's right! Life is good ... what's not to laugh about? ;)

BBS2 - luckily I bought a beautiful sun hat when we were on our cruise over the winter. It'll sure come in handy now! :D

Wow!!
 

I have just spent the last twenty minutes exploring the St Baldrick's web site and then making a donation. As someone in the medical field I had not heard of this organization. After exploring their web site, I am very impressed.
This is an amazing organization that does all the things one would want a non profit to do. It raised over $5.3 million dollars last year and had only a 9% overhead. The letters from the receiving institutions and the stories of some of the people helped is overwhelming. I suggest everyone explore their web site. http://www.stbaldricks.org/default.asp
They even have a forum (of course not as robust as this one)

Pepper, you have done an amazing thing and have given all the forum members an opportunity to honor you, pay homage to the memory of your sister and really make a difference in the battle against childhood cancer.
I would suggest people consider making a tax deductible contribution on the web site and to continue to add to the water bottle each time they enjoy the lobster rolls.

http://www.stbaldricks.org/ShaveePho...umber=15338634


DRH Those pictures were beautiful!!

Pepper You are beautiful

Thanks Pepper!
 

The world needs more people like you.

I'm proud to say I know you (even if it's just through association on the Forum).

I'll be by every chance I get (starting this weekend), to donate to that bottle of yours...and of course to eat your lobster rolls!!:D

What can I say
 

Pepper,

What can I say. You look mah'velous.

Do you have a preference for the best method to use for donations? Via the web, phone, check, credit card or in your jar (direct to the shavee) at the restaurant or...? (all of the above) :)

I can't wait to see your new look in person. I better do it soon while you still have less hair than I do :laugh:

You are awesome. Good for you.

Wow, you guys! I just re-read this thread from the top, and found a couple of posts I had missed before! (I really must learn to hit the refresh button before I log off, so I can see posts that happened while I was online :o )

So, in reply to Lin and Mink Islander - with regard to Locks of Love - I did that 2 1/2 years ago after my sister recovered from her first bout with cancer. Unfortunately this time my hair was color-treated (yup! Lot's of grey hair on my head these days!)so I couldn't give the hair away this time. :(

PaulS - I was amazed how long it took to shave my head! But I must admit that Dan Barbary was having a lot of fun, and made the event enormously enjoyable for myself and everyone in attendance as well. There was a LOT of laughter on the patio last night! :D

Mee - If you think I've got a big heart, well, I think the girl in your mirror has the biggest heart I'VE ever come across!!!!!

IG - You've been my inspiration for several years now. I know you know just exactly how I was feeling, and it's people like you who give me the strength to "do something"! Thank you! Love you, too!!!

AltonBayBob - so glad you took the time to thoroughly research St. Baldricks! It really is an amazing organization, and in this day and age of "administrative bleedoff" practiced by many so-called charitable organizations, it's wonderful to find one that is so fiscally responsible and truly devoted to it's cause! I truly appreciate you posting your thoughts - particularly as a member of the medical community - and I'm proud to be putting my efforts to good use for such a worthy organization. Also, and more importantly, thank you for your generous contribution!!!!!!!;)

Skipper - I have no preference as to the method of donation. Which ever method is easiest and most logical for the individual is the method they should choose. St. Baldrick's certainly makes it easy to use their website or to donate by phone. I just appreciate everyone's willingness to give to a cause I feel strongly about, and to help me honor the memory of my sister. She was a nurse and spent her life healing hurts of all kinds. I'm trying to fill the void that she left, by doing what I'm able - raise money!

And speaking of raising money ... Tonight I emptied the water bottle for the first time. Inside was $448.00 in paper bills, and a small amount of coins which I put back into the bottle. Tonight on my page at St. Baldricks, there is already a total of $475.00! So, I'm already well on my way to the first $1,000!!!!! :D I'm going to put two thermometer graphs on the side of the bottle and fill them in with a red marker, showing the current totals online and in the bottle. This way, everyone will be able to view the progress every time they visit. One graph will be for online donations, and the other will be for the donations in the bottle. This is going to be fun!

Thank you again to all of you for your support in this endeavor. I continue to be thoroughly overwhelmed!

God Bless each and every one of you!!!!!

Teach your children well
 

We learn and we teach by example. The two front page pictures of yesterday's Citizen are of the first New Hampshire man to climb Mt. Everest and our "Pepper" having her head shaved. We overuse the word hero, but we cannot overdo praising good people for doing good things. We are so fortunate to be able to show our children ( and ourselves) examples of good people in our own ( or our adopted) community. Let us help the water jug runneth over!

Way to cool
 

Pepper,
As with the rest of the people I find your actions remarkable. Having lost a father to Cancer, I notice the good will of others towards these cause a lot more. And something like this shows the world how beautiful a person you are both inside and out......

What a Gal!
 

Peppr:

I've been off of the keypad for a couple of days and have just read about your remarkable tribute. As I read on I must admit that I became (no pun intended) a little bit misty.

In this superficial world that we live in it is easy to skew our priorities. By your example you have shown us a full measure of poise, love and devotion. True beauty.

And take it from a sailor, you are in every respect a babe.

Misty Blue

Great Cause
 

Pepper:

Having lost 2 close family members to cancer just wanted to say thanks for your efforts....what an unselfish thing to do !! Hope to make it up sometime this weekend for a lobster roll and a contribution.
:)

Just one thing to say::eek: :eek: :eek: :laugh:

Missed it!
 

Pepper,

I just found out about the foundation through this forum and am sorry to have missed your event. I have lost a number of friends to cancer in the past couple years and a most dear girl friend almost exactly a year ago. She was only 54, my age, and I miss her very much. Sitting with her as she passed was one of the hardest times of my life.

Children, which she was unable to have, meant everything to her and they do to me too. Both my husband and I are/were elementary school teachers and our own children are the pinnacles of our lives. A donation will be on its way to St. Baldrick's very soon. After all the oppositional discussion I've participated in in the last few days, I am so glad to read of your inspiring action.

Patrick's Event
 

Pepper,

Just came from dinner with a friend at Patrick's Pub. They promoting the St. Baldrick's "dedication coasters" you can "buy", so all 3 of us made good size donations and were happy to be able to dedicate them to people we loved and lost. I don't know how long they plan to be doing this, but if people are interested you may want to take advantage of the opportunity to donate in this way.

More importantly, one of the owners, Alan Beetle, was on the microphone talking about an upcoming event where at least 50 people were to have their heads shaved, I presume, at Patrick's. I couldn't hear him well over the crowd, so perhaps, Pepper, if you can elaborate on this fundraiser, which is for such an excellent cause, it would help people to know about it.