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"Shave the Day" - 2010 St. Baldrick's Day

Hair was flying as Basin Electric employees and Bismarck-Mandan community members lost their locks to clippers and scissors during the third annual St. Baldrick's event held in North Dakota (video). On March 17, 2010, the boardroom at Headquarters was quickly filled with shavees and individuals excited to see their friends and co-workers lose their hair 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 $124,000. Here's to an even bigger grand total in 2010!

Teams participating in the 2010 event:

AVS Chrome Domes	Mahoney Litigators
Baldhood - Century High School students	MDUR - Bald as a Light Bulb
Bismarck Bobcats hockey team	Millright Mafia
BSC Baldies	Sargent & Lundy
DUSC Regional Boys	Shears 2 You!
Evan's Bald Buddies	Step Brothers
Gone in 60 Seconds	The Good, The Bald, and The Ugly
LRS Life Shavers	Totally Smooth Melons - TSM
University of Mary	Viking Construction
KEM Electric	Titan Contracting & Leasing
Babcock & Wilcox Construction	Triad
Fagen, Inc.	Westcon Industries
Hettinger Welding	Ames Construction
Nooter Eriksen

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 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 $74 million for the cause, and shaved more than 135,000 heads in 24 countries and all 50 states in 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.

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