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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...
Operation gives new meaning to oily hair – May 2010
Your tresses or even your dog's fur could help mop up the catastrophic oil mess in the Gulf of Mexico. Multiple hair salons and pet grooming studios across Southwest Florida are joining a nationwide effort to collect the clippings to make booms that will absorb oil...
Oil cleanup company is not using collected hair -May 2010
OMAHA — Hair today, Gulf tomorrow? Salons across Omaha are clipping and saving bags and boxes of hair as part of a nationwide drive to help soak up the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. One problem: The company at the center of the massive cleanup effort in the...
Head shave appeal to save environment – May 2010
One hair salon in Cardiff is appealing for people to shave their heads to mop up spilt oil Johnsons Hairdressers on Cathays Terrace are inviting people to shave their heads to protect the environment. The hair salon is taking part in the Hair Today Gone Tomorrow...
Get a Gulf cut – May 2010
Southern Oregon University's Ecological Center of the Siskiyous is encouraging locals to get a haircut and send their locks to a nonprofit that's making oil-absorbing booms using the hair. By Hannah Guzik Posted May. 20, 2010 at 2:00 AM Today marks the one-month...
Remington College donates hair clippings for Gulf oil spill relief – May 2010
A Houston college’s cosmetology program is donating leftover hair clippings to help clean up the Gulf oil spill. Remington College is collecting discarded hair clippings at its three Houston campuses and donating them to San Francisco-based nonprofit Matter of Trust,...
Hair of the dog helps tackle oil spill – May 2010
THE hair of the dog has long been touted as a fool-proof remedy, but it has never been used to deal with a multi-million-barrel oil slick. Now three dog-groomers from south Oxfordshire are bagging up the trimmings from their canine clients and sending them to the Gulf...