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Comment by Mr. EZ on February 13, 2013 at 7:38pm

It's St Baldrick’s FundraiserTime again!

As some of you know, I participate in one of the many St. Baldrick’s Foundation fundraising events held in my hometown every year; this year the event will be on Sunday, March 17^th, and will be my fifth year participating.

 For those who don’t know about St Baldrick’s, it's a nationwide charity that holds events where volunteers have their heads shaved to raise money for Children’s Cancer Research. The purpose is to both take donations and to show solidarity with young kids who have lost their hair due to cancer treatments.

As always, once I have raised $1000, I will bleach my hair and dye it green, and I also run a contest at work where teams compete to raise the most money, and the winning team gets to chose what color I spray color my beard on the day of the event.

Last year Orange won:

[NOTE: that picture is not in florescent light, it was taken in front of my computer monitor in the dark.]

 

Childhood Cancer Facts:

• Worldwide, more than 175,000 children are diagnosed with cancer each year—that’s nearly the entire population of Jackson, Mississippi. And cancer doesn’t care about borders, race, nationality, age, socio-economic level or religion—it can strike any child at any time.
• About 60% of all funding for drug development in adult cancers comes from pharmaceutical companies. For kids? Almost none, because childhood cancer drugs are not profitable. This is where St Baldrick’s comes in; we are a volunteer-driven charity dedicated to raising money for life-saving childhood cancer research and funds more in childhood cancer grants than any organization except for the U.S. government.
• Since the Foundation's first grants as an independent charity in 2005, St. Baldrick's has funded more than $101 million to support the most brilliant childhood cancer research experts in the world.

 

 

At the St. Baldrick’s Foundation, we do one thing, and we do it well: We fund childhood cancer research.

• Our mission is to find cures for childhood cancers and to give survivors long and healthy lives.
• We are the largest private (non-government) funder of childhood cancer research grants.
• Thanks to a grant review system that impresses the experts, we fund only the very best childhood cancer research.
• By funding cooperative research through the Children’s Oncology Group, we give kids nationwide access to the very latest in research and clinical trials.

So, Please donate on my Participant Webpagehttp://www.stbaldricks.org/participants/mypage/576371/2013 and encourage your friends and family to both give and to pass this on as well, so that we can help to conquer cancer in children.

Comment by Mr. EZ on February 13, 2013 at 7:53am

To work, I mean... off to work.

Later.

Comment by Mr. EZ on February 13, 2013 at 7:52am

Welcome back Lady.  Hope you are well also. My ability to visit here from work is cut off, so sadly the Annex is in decline. Feel free to post as you will, and invite your friends in as well. I will visit as time permits.

Speaking of time and work, I'm off now.

Comment by Lady Penelope Fitzwilliam on February 13, 2013 at 7:39am

Hello everyone, I hope you are all well, I apologize I know I have been gone
For quite a while.

Comment by Mr. EZ on January 23, 2013 at 7:08am

You are most welcome Laynee...

By the way, I should point out to all members, new and established, that I am unable to access the Empire from work... something to do with the content filters that were installed with new computer upgrades a while back... so answer times will be very slow on my part.

Please, try not to spray graffiti all over the walls in my absence.

Comment by Mr. EZ on January 23, 2013 at 7:04am

Welcome Hephzibah.

Comment by Laynee Quinn on January 17, 2013 at 9:45pm

Oh geez, thank you for the welcome,  EZ, I missed that at first.

Comment by Laynee Quinn on January 17, 2013 at 9:42pm

Good look, Mr. EZ!

Congratulations on your fundraising!

and, uh, watch out for those zombies!

Comment by Mr. EZ on January 17, 2013 at 5:54am

Welcome Laynee

Comment by Mr. EZ on March 18, 2012 at 4:01pm

After:

Note the lack of eyebrows, thanks to a rash promise made to a certain Zombie.

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