Photos: The Big Buzz in La Grange
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 …
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