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Students donate hair to fight oil spill – May 2010
Most students choose to get a haircut because of the hot weather or to change their hairstyle. On Thursday, University of Florida students chose to get a haircut to help the environment. On a sunny and hot summer day at the Plaza of the Americas, about 20 UF students...
Huffington Post – Give Me Down to There, Hair!
I have always been fascinated by random Broadway marketing ideas. Before I started in the industry, I actually thought they were meant to (directly) sell tickets. Now I realize that they are primarily designed to garner publicity, thereby hopefully selling tickets...
Bayview Corner salon donates hair for oil spill – May 2010
Water and oil don’t mix. But oil and hair do. Brittney DeMartini, owner of La Salon Bella at Bayview Corner, has joined a growing army of clippers across the country who are sending out boxes of shorn locks to help clean up the massive oil spill off America’s southern...
Salon saves hair clippings to soak up Gulf oil – May 2010
SARANAC LAKE - Instead of throwing its hair clippings in the garbage as usual, a local hair salon is collecting them and mailing them to a nonprofit group that will use it to help soak up oil in the Gulf of Mexico. For...
Hair and fur donations to help oil spill
RIB MOUTAIN (WAOW)-- Seven year old, Brennan Shaughnessy knows hair clippings usually end up in the trash can, but his clippings have a different destination. His hair will be swept up and shipped out to help absorb oil in the Gulf of Mexico. Employees at Fantastic...
Haircuts to help clean up the Gulf oil spill
WATERLOO (KWWL) -- One Waterloo salon is boxing up hair to help clean up the gulf oil spill. O'hana Salon and Spa owner Jamie Oberreuter heard about the idea on the Today Show. Her salon is now saving hair from customers and sending it to Florida through a non-profit...
Bayview Corner salon donates hair for oil spill – May 2010
Water and oil don’t mix. But oil and hair do. Brittney DeMartini, owner of La Salon Bella at Bayview Corner, has joined a growing army of clippers across the country who are sending out boxes of shorn locks to help clean up the massive oil spill off America’s southern...
SILive – The doo wop that they do so well for charity
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The Third Annual Doo Wop Night to raise funds for the Staten Island Alzheimer’s Foundation is set for June 13 at 2 p.m. at Memory Lane, the foundation’s headquarters, located at 789 Post Ave. in West Brighton. CONTINUE READING... SILive,...
Students collect ‘Hair Fur Oil’ on SOU campus – May 2010
Makeshift barber shop draws donors — and their pets, too The hair and fur will be shipped to Matter of Trust, a nonprofit group that stuffs the material into donated nylons and makes them into booms that surround, contain and soak up the oil and are later broken down...
LA Hairy Beasts Get Shorn to Help Soak up Gulf Oil Spill
LOS ANGELES, May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Downtown Los Angeles' community-centric barbershop, BOLT BARBERS™ is leading area efforts to use highly porous hair clippings to help soak up oil spilling into the Gulf as a result of the April 20th Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig...