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St. Baldrick's

Bald is beautiful...

Hair was flying at the Great Plains Synfuels Plant as employees and community members lost their "do's" to clippers and scissors during the second annual St. Baldrick's event held in North Dakota.

For the second year in a row, Dakota Gas' The Good, the Bald and the Ugly team shaved their heads to support research for curing childhood cancer.

The lobby at the Synfuels Plant quickly filled with shavees and individuals excited to see their friends and co-workers lose their locks during the St. Patrick's Day event. Each year, thousands of volunteers shave their heads in solidarity of children with cancer while requesting donations of support from friends and family.

The men, women and children who participated in the 2009 St. Baldrick's fun at Dakota Gas and other locations raised more than $100,000.

Numerous individuals also collected money to shave their heads. Several adults and children cut ten inches from their ponytails and donated them to Locks of Love.

 

Dianne Wolf, Darlene Voegele and Ryan Wolf all braved the shave.

Sharing the shaving

In addition to the March 17 fun and festivities at Dakota Gas, similar events were held at Headquarters and Basin Electric's other facilities: Antelope Valley Station and Leland Olds Station in North Dakota, the Laramie River Station and Dry Fork Station in Wyoming, and several transmission systems maintenance outposts.

 

Facility teams participating in the 2009 event were:

Ames Construction AVS Chrome Domes AZCO Babcock & Wilcox Construction Century Country Morning Today Dakota Wizards DFS Blues Brothers Gone in 60 Seconds

Hair's Looking at You, Kid Hettinger, LLC High Voltage Vigilantes - TSM LPR Construction LRS Life Shavers MDUR - Bald as a Light Bulb Millwright Mafia ISC Golden Domers Northwest Contracting

Patty O'Finken Sargent & Lundy Skeels TBD The Bald and Beautiful The Dirty Hairys The Good, The Bald,and The Ugly Titan Contracting & Leasing

Getting to the root

The husband-wife Basin Electric team of Emily McKay, event planner/charitable giving coordinator, and Ted Cash, supervisor of media support services, originally brought the idea of Basin Electric supporting the first-ever St. Baldrick's Foundation event in North Dakota to the company. Their suggestion turned out to be a great success. Basin Electric and its subsidiaries are gearing up to organize an even bigger event in 2010.  

About St. Baldrick's Foundation

Since its inception in 2000, St. Baldrick's Foundation has raised more than $48.5 million for the cause, and shaved more than 71,000 heads in 18 countries and 48 states of the United States. Despite tremendous progress, cancer remains the No. 1 killer disease of children in the United States and Canada. The foundation's mission is to raise awareness and
funds to cure kids' cancer by supporting cancer research and fellowships. 

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