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Find out what we're doing this year: "Shave the Day" - 2010 St. Baldrick's Day

Bald is beautiful...

Last year, hair was flying as more than 140 Basin Electric employees and Bismarck-Mandan community members lost their "do's" to clippers and scissors during the second annual St. Baldrick's event held in North Dakota (video). On March 17, 2009, the boardroom at Headquarters quickly filled with shavees and individuals excited to see their friends and co-workers lose their locks during the St. Patrick's Day event.

Each year, thousands of volunteers shave their heads in solidarity of children with cancer while requesting donations of support from friends and family. The men, women and children who participated in the 2009 St. Baldrick's fun at Basin Electric raised more than $100,000.

Facility teams participating in the 2009 event were:

Ames Construction	LRS Life Shavers
AVS Chrome Domes	MDUR - Bald as a Light Bulb
AZCO	Millwright Mafia
Babcock & Wilcox Construction	NISC Golden Domers
Century	Northwest Contracting
Country Morning Today	Patty O'Finken
Dakota Wizards	Sargent & Lundy
DFS Blues Brothers	Skeels
Gone in 60 Seconds	TBD
Hair's Looking at You, Kid	The Bald and Beautiful
Hettinger, LLC	The Dirty Hairys
High Voltage Vigilantes - TSM	The Good, The Bald,and The Ugly
LPR Construction	Titan Contracting & Leasing (TC&L)

Numerous individuals also collected money to shave their heads. Several adults and children cut ten inches from their ponytails and donated them to Locks of Love.

Sharing the shaving

In addition to the March 17 fun and festivities at Headquarters, similar events were held at Basin Electric's other facilities: Antelope Valley Station, Leland Olds Station, and Dakota Gasification Company's Great Plains Synfuels Plant in North Dakota; the Laramie River Station and Dry Fork Station in Wyoming, and several transmission systems maintenance outposts.

Getting to the root

The husband-wife Basin Electric team of Emily McKay, event planner/charitable giving coordinator, and Ted Cash, supervisor of media support services, originally brought the idea of Basin Electric supporting the first-ever St. Baldrick's Foundation event in North Dakota to the company. Their suggestion turned out to be a great success. Visit Basin Electric's St. Baldrick's Day event page.

About St. Baldrick's Foundation

Since its inception in 2000, St. Baldrick's Foundation has raised more than $48.5 million for the cause, and shaved more than 71,000 heads in 18 countries and 48 states of the United States.

Despite tremendous progress, cancer remains the No. 1 killer disease of children in the United States and Canada. The foundation's mission is to raise awareness and funds to cure kids' cancer by supporting cancer research and fellowships.