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Big bucks from charity short cuts
branches of the national accounting !rm, raised the equivalent of 43,000 pounds worth of food through their various fund- raising e"orts. “Every dollar (raised) is worth two pounds of food,” Leduc said. The head-shaving stunt is something
new for the Rockland BDO o$ce’s fundrais- ing strategy and it proved more successful than organizers and volunteers could have hoped. Ten people signed up to become Mr. Clean clones as part of the event and the goal was to try and raise at least $10,000
through pledges from sta" members at the two o$ces and others, along with dona- tions collected during the Friday afternoon barbecue at BDO while the headshaving was going on. By noon hour that day, Leduc was al- ready rubbing out the last three zeroes of the $10,000 written on the giant imitation presentation cheque and changing the do- nation total !rst to $10,100. Then $10,200. Then 300 and the number kept climbing. By Monday afternoon, after adding both the barbecue concession donations to the already-con!rmed pledges, the total from Rockland BDO’s Drive Away Hunger drive stood at $12,220 with one more pledge still to come in. “This is going to be quite an event for us,” said Conrad Montcalm, Rockland Food Bank spokesman. “Our total year’s (opera- tions) budget is $80,000, so this is going to be a big chunk.” All money raised from the Rockland BDO campaign will go towards supporting the local food bank.
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ROCKLAND | Daniel Vinette’s mother hasn’t seen her son’s chin since he began developing a beard in high school. So when he volunteered to sacri!ce that beard as part of a head-shaving fundraiser for the Rockland Food Bank, she jumped at the chance to snip o" the !rst lock of hair. Vinette and other BDO sta" members, along with a couple of the senior partners from the Charron Langlois legal !rm, let their stubble show Sept. 5 as they each took turns on a stool in the parking lot courtyard area outside of the BDO o$ce on Laurier Street and let a stylist shave their heads for the annual BDO Drive Away Hunger cam- paign to help out food banks. Mylène Leduc, organizer for the local BDO event, noted that last year the combined ef- forts of the Rockland, Embrun, and Ottawa Mayoral race is on Yvon Mayer has !led his nomination pa- pers to contest with Coun. Guy Desjardins for the Clarence-Rockland mayor’s seat. Mayer was not available for an interview at press time.
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Pierre Charron gets the “reverse mohawk” treatment at the start of his head-shaving session for the food bank, courtesy of his daughter, Rachelle, who took charge of the clipper !rst before returning them to the stylist. The fun and funny fundraiser proved a bigger success than organizers expected with more than $12,000 raised.
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