A hair cutter takes the centre route first while shaving the head of a North Bay police officer.
A hair cutter takes the centre route first while shaving the head of a North Bay police officer.____________________________________________________________
Shaving their heads has become a father-son thing for North Bay police chief
Paul Cook and his dad
Doug.
It has even more significance since it’s being done to honour Margaret Cook, Doug’s late wife and Paul’s late mother.
“She lost her battle with breast cancer Jan. 6, 2002, so my dad and I come out to get our heads shaved for her and to raise funds and awareness,” Cook said Wednesday at the bi-annual Cops and Emergency Services for Cancer, held at the North Bay Mall.
The event raises funds for the Canadian Cancer Society, and participants bring in pledges to shave their heads.
About 40 heads were shaved and they belong to members of the North Bay Police Service, the Ontario Provincial Police North Bay detachment officers and auxiliary officers; the North East Region Provincial Communication Centre for the OPP, enforcement officers of the Ministry of Transportation, and the North Bay Ambulance Service personnel
The free haircuts were provided by the The Shaving Mug and Parminos Hairstyling.
Rick Tass, a constable with the North Bay OPP, said he was also honouring his mother Barbara, who died from cancer at 77.
“It was an absolutely tragic loss for us because she fought her cancer so hard,” Tass said.
“So we’re raising this money and hopefully they’ll be able to find a cure for cancer.”
North Bay Police spokesman Yvan Montcalm said $16,000 was raised through head shaving.
Chief Cook, he added, had brought in $5,000 worth of pledges on his own.
