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I would be extremely remiss if I did not thank all you who given so generously to support my efforts over the last ten years to help find a cure for Childhood Cancer. So from the bottom of my heart THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!!!!!

I will be shaving my head to help raise awareness and funds for childhood cancer research for the twelfth time on March 20, 2010. And while shaving my head has become a yearly thing for this great cause, this year it is very different.

This year our very good friend's six year old daughter was diagnosed with ALL Leukemia. Kendall is a very special girl who had participated in Locks of love both before her diagnosis and now after. I have always said that we shave or heads because you never know when cancer will hit close to home. Well this is now the second of my friends with a child with cancer. Molly is now in remission and we hope that Kendall will also be cancer free in the very near future. But again no child should ever have to go through what Molly has and Kendall is to get well. Please help me make this dream a reality!!

While cure rates are better then they were 40 years ago, there has not been much improvement in the cure rates over the last decade. In the United States, childhood cancer continues to kill more of our children then Aids, Asthma, diabetes, cystic fibrosis and congenital anomalies combined. Although we have accomplished much in our first ten years, losing just one child to this horrible disease is more then any of us should be willing to accept.

Thus I again humbly ask that you support my efforts to raise money to fund life saving research. With help and support from all of you, the day will come when Childhood cancer will be nothing but a bad memory. But until then I commit to shave my head once a year( and sometimes twice) until we find a cure.

This year's event will be at the St Agnes Parish Center on March 20, 2010. If you would enjoy seeing me look like Curly from The Three Stooges, please join us in a fun way to raise funds for the serious mission of finding a cure for childhood cancer!!!

Thank you again for your generous support!!!!

John