EASTON, Pa. – Some men are giving up their beards, all in the name of cancer awareness.<\/p>\n
It’s the 9th Beards for Breasts event at Pearly Baker’s in Easton, raising money for the Cancer Support Community of the Greater Lehigh Valley.<\/p>\n
At Beards for Breasts, facial hair comes with a price tag.<\/p>\n
Men take the stage, and the crowd bids to see those beards come off; all to raise money for the Cancer Support Community of the Greater Lehigh Valley.<\/p>\n
“When I was going through it, the cancer support community helped me tremendously. So, this is my way of giving back,” Organizer Sarah Trimmer says.<\/p>\n
Sarah is a two-time breast cancer survivor. And the idea for the fundraiser started with a different kind of shave.<\/p>\n
“When I learned that I needed chemo and I had to shave my head. Steve’s salon, Suddenly Samantha, in Easton. He actually shaved my head that night. And that was sort of how this came about,” Trimmer explains.<\/p>\n
That moment between Steven and Sarah grew into a tradition, now in its ninth year.<\/p>\n
“This was just a way to add a little light and fun to a terrible disease,” Organizer Steven Flowers says.<\/p>\n
And for Raj Muddu, the stakes were high. He says he hasn’t fully shaved his beard since 2007.<\/p>\n
“We were at 800-something, and I said, okay, let’s push it for another couple hundred. And I just threw that out and people just fed,” Muddu says.<\/p>\n
The result? A half-shaved look courtesy of his son.<\/p>\n
“I have to see myself in the mirror now,” Muddu says.<\/p>\n
And more money for the cause.<\/p>\n
“Steve was one of the organizers. He’s a regular customer of mine, and he inspired me to do this,” Muddu says. “And I thought, why not have some fun while raising some money for a good cause.”<\/p>\n
Organizers Steve and Sarah say they’re already looking for more beards to shave at next year’s milestone event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EASTON, Pa. – Some men are giving up their beards, all in the name of cancer awareness. It’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[3783,125787,153,155,154,6362,125788,5705,524,2181,2350,125789,12269],"class_list":["post-306780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-awareness","tag-beards-for-breasts","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-breast-cancer","tag-cancer-support-community","tag-charity","tag-community","tag-easton","tag-fundraiser","tag-shaving","tag-survivor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}