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(North Campus) 1055 McCraney St. E., Oakville To learn more please join us and meet the teachers of Halton's exciting School to Career programs. www.schooltocareer.ca A barber shop may not be the place you'd expect to find ponytails, but it is when Sandy Bray is around. The female barber, who works at the long-established Heaney's Hairstyling in Bronte, is an ambassador for Wigs for Kids, a 26-year-old, Ohio-based charity that provides wigs at no cost to children who've lost hair because of illness. That may be cancer treatments like radiation or other illnesses or afflictions. "I'm making a contribution, if not in the fight against cancer, then in helping people who are affected by making them more comfortable when they're fighting their battle," said Bray, who moved to Oakville in 1988 and has called Bronte home since 1991. Besides, it's an easy thing to do, she said. Her name is listed by the charity as a Wigs for Kids ambassador. She donates her time to cut anyone's hair who wants to make the required donation of 12 inches, free of charge. Once the snip has been made, Bray then collects the hair donations and -- when her envelope is full -- sends them to Wigs for Kids where they are made into wigs and distributed to those needing them. Unlike the many head shavings done to support or show empathy for those undergoing cancer treatment, donations to Wigs for Kids can see a donor leaving Heaney's still sporting long hair or a new-style 'do arranged by Bray's co-workers Pam McDermott or Stephanie Moore. That was the case for 14-year-old Sarah Harvey. The Grade 9 student at Burlington's Robert Bateman High School, who calls the Oakville/Burlington border her home, decided to donate her hair recently and ventured in to see Bray. Harvey's dad, Don Harvey, a Toronto police officer, has been going to Heaney's since the late Jack Heaney, its founder, operated just up the street from its present location at 100 Bronte Road, south of Lakeshore. Sarah donated her requisite 12inches of hair and also more than $1,250 in funds raised through her hair cut. The donation in its entirety so impressed Bray, that after donating 12 inches several years ago and then growing her hair to make another donation, she invited Sarah to do the honour of making the first cut on her own hair. Sarah said she was moved to make her effort because of several THE CUT: Grade 9 student Sarah Harvey takes the first cut as Oakville barber Sandy Bray of Heaney's Hairstyling in Bronte gives up her locks to Wigs for Kids. Harvey also donated her hair to the cause. reasons -- fellow students loss. I was the first donor were doing fundraising for and recently was able to similar events, she had have enough hair cut, a seen one of her own minimum 12 inches, in friends die of cancer, a 10- order to make my second year-old boy who attended donation," said Bray. her elementary school The barber keeps a list Mohawk Gardens, and of all those who have then witnessed a family donated and said she is friend succumb to the dis- grateful to the more than ease. 60 people who have partic"I decided to donate my ipated since 2005. Many hair so someone could be come from much farther happy with it and because afield than Oakville after it helps them," said Sarah, finding Bray's name as a adding, "It can help program ambassador. increase their confidence." Her involvement was Bray said that acting as welcomed by Heaney's, an ambassador for the which is owned by Jackie program not only broad- Heaney. casts the fact that The shop is a long-time Heaney's is in business, sponsor of a women's but does a good deed at the hockey team called the same time. Heaney Clippers. Upon finding out about In recognition of such, the program, she recalled there are a pair of clippers, when she had her long resembling huge garden hair cut short and the hair shears, on the wall of the went to waste. So she shop. It was those clippers ensured that wouldn't that symbolically cut happen again. Bray's hair as she became a "It's really just about Wigs for Kids ambassador being able to do some in 2005. small thing that's easy for Heaney's is Bronte's us to do," said Bray, who longest running family has been registered as a business. It was started by Wigs for Kids ambassador Jack Heaney in 1956. since May 2005. For additional informa"Since then I have cut tion about Wigs for Kids, more than 60 donations of visit www.wigsforkids.org hair, which are sent off to or to make a donation, call be made into wigs for chil- Heaney's Hairstyling at dren with medical hair 905-827-4681.