Three best friends organize an event to shave heads, raise money to help fight children's cancer.
For a brief moment, seventh-grader Parker Raycroft’s eyes grew wide as the scissors slipped over her ponytail, and with a quick cut, the long locks fell away. But when the buzzers came out, the dismay was replaced by an ear-to-ear smile, as the crowd cheered and her curls floated to the ground. Once her hair was buzzed short, she stepped off the trailer parked in front of Tom and Kerry Nutter's house on south Waiola Avenue, and into a group of girls who giggled and rubbed her newly shaved head. “I was nervous,” she admitted as she stood in the crowd. “But I had Katie there, so that made it easier.” On Aug. 25, Raycroft and her friends Maggie Nutter and Katie Palermo raised over $10,000 for St. Baldrick’s, a charity that raises money to …
My bad day was changed in an instant by three friends—Parker Raycroft, Maggie Nutter and Katie Palermo—and what they did for each other.
Have you ever had one of those days where you wonder why you even got out of bed? That was my day last Thursday. By 5:20 p.m. I was ready to go home and just give up on the day. Nothing truly catastrophic happened; it was just a comedy of errors and a total waste of a day. Then something happened to make me forget about all that had happened, or not happened as the case may be. I saw the bond of three special seventh-grade girls and the outpouring of support from our community. I had promised my editor that I would attend the St. Baldrick’s fundraiser for Katie Palermo and take pictures of the event. I am so glad I didn’t give up and go home. I hadn’t heard about Katie and her leukemia diagnosis until the day before and honestly, I didn’t …
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