Cut-A-Thon To Raise Money to Fight Cancer

12/7/2012 (Updated 11:09:08 PM)

(Source: Fox 40 Staff)

Looking for a new holiday hair-do? Ridley-Lowell cosmetology is holding it's second annual Cut-a-Thon, to raise money for the American Cancer Society.

Students from the cosmetology school will be cutting and shampooing hair tomorrow and accepting monetary donations. One hundred percent of the proceeds will be going to the American Cancer Society.

"It's very important, we've all had somebody in our lives, family, friends, friends of friends who've been touched by cancer in all forms, it's very important to get awareness," said Cynthia Lyons the Cosmetology Program Director.   

The Cut-a-Thon will take place from 10am-1pm tomorrow at Ridley-Lowell on 26 court street.  Students hope to raise anywhere from five hundred to a thousand dollars.