From a town with a population of just 280 came a staggering fundraising effort at the weekend, with more than $27,000 raised in Goolgowi as part of the Leukaemia Foundation’s World’s Greatest Shave (WGS).
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The mammoth effort saw the small town ranked the 17th biggest shave fundraiser in Australia in the 2017 WGS, which raised a total of $13 million nationwide.
Supporters came from as far as Hay, and by the busload, to throw their support behind finding a cure for the disease, which devastated the area last year, taking the life of a man just 22 years of age.
While there were a number of heads of hair on the chopping block on Saturday night there was little doubt the ‘mane’ event was the loss of a beard three decades in the making.
Brian Jarratt’s own grown children had never seen him clean shaven, but he gave up his beloved beard in the name of the cause, even sacrificing his head hair after reaching his mammoth fundraising target of $15,000.
While generous donations filtered through in the lead up to the event, the crowd inside the Goolgowi Ex-Servicemen’s Club continued to dig deep, raising $8,923 in auctions, lucky door prizes and the coveted privilege of seeing a friend walk away stuck with a mullet on the night.