Lachlan Streader, Jesse Harvey, Josh Bowman, Cooper Williams and (front) Callum Harvey braved Sharda hairdresser Rochelle Hardy who was armed with clippers and a pink hair spray can. 28053 Picture: Meagan Rogers
FOUR young boys braved the schoolyard with pink hair – and another with a short new look – in a quest to raise $1000 for leukaemia sufferers.
Pakenham Lions Juniors Lachlan Streader, Josh Bowman, Cooper Williams and Jesse and Callum Harvey last week sat in the hairdresser’s chair before fronting their classmates.
The five boys have raised $700 so far for the World’s Greatest Shave. They are hoping to raise another $300 so their football coach Rick Bowman will have a date with the razor.
Tanya Bowman said her son Josh and friend Lachlan had done a great job co-ordinating the fund-raising effort.
“Josh got up one morning and said Lachlan and I are going to be brave and shave,” she said.
“He got home from school and we said ‘that’s nice look it up on the internet’. He said ‘we’ve already got $400’.”
The annual fund-raiser is especially significant for Lachlan whose mother Tina lost her battle with bone cancer last year.
Grade 5/6 teacher Victoria Lopez at St Patrick’s Primary School, where Josh and Lachlan attend, got to choose what colour locks the boys would have after donating the most money of any teacher.
The boys have until the end of this month to raise $300 to reach their $1000 goal.
