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Volunteers to go bald for cause
Oakland Tribune, Mar 18, 2008 by Todd R Brown
Some 100 Bay Area residents are going to go bald for a good cause Monday.
On St. Patrick's Day, the volunteers will head to Children's Hospital Oakland, where they will lose their locks to raise money for cancer research and show solidarity with young cancer patients whose chemotherapy leaves them bald.
Lisa Baracker, whose son, Isaac, had a brain tumor removed and is going through chemotherapy, is organizing the event, a fundraiser for St. Baldrick's Foundation, which grants money for cancer research. She said more than 100 people are set to go bald for the charity, including herself.
The Berkeley resident said she first was reluctant to shave her head, because she has been looking for work since being laid off a year ago as a biochemist in Emeryville.
Yet friends convinced her that the gesture would show her commitment to a cause -- and give her something to talk about
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