Golden locks given with love
Published: June 2, 2005
I watched as a 6-year-old girl marched into Salon East in East Grand Forks on Tuesday afternoon to give up a foot of light brown hair for Locks of Love. This is a program that is gaining ground by leaps and bounds. The more people hear about the nonprofit organization that provides hair to children suffering from medical hair loss, the more hair is going that way.
Hair stylist Stacey Matejcek cut Bailee Trevino’s hair. When Bailee got situated in a booster seat, Stacey asked, “Are you ready?” Bailee, who hadn’t had her hair cut since she was 2, nodded her head and said she was. She looked sort of scared. It didn’t take long for the long locks to be snipped off. It took a little longer for Stacey to shape Bailee’s hair and trim her bangs.
All the while, Bailee’s mother was watching. She said the long hair had been good for a battle every day. She said, “Bailee would cry when I brushed her hair. She wanted it cut. Then a friend told me about Locks of Love. And I said that was the only way I would do it.”
And so it was done. The Trevino family made the haircut part of their agenda on their visit with friends and relatives here. They came up from Clinton, Ky., for the 100th birthday celebration for Bailee’s great grandmother, Minnie Johnson, who is 100.
Have you heard of Locks of Love in Tucson, Shirley? There’s more information about it on the Internet. The address is Locks of Love, 2915 10th Ave. N., Suite 102, Lake Worth, FL 33461. The phone number is (561) 963-1677. And there’s free information about Locks of Love at (888) 896-1558.
Thanks much for the birthday card. I like the way we keep recycling these cards we send back and forth and to our sister, Helen, in Sacramento. It really beats going out and buying new ones. And somehow the used cards get more precious as time goes by.
I made a quick trip to Bismarck to celebrate my birthday on Memorial Day and to celebrate Jack’s June 23 birthday early. He will be 15, but he will be gone most of the summer to a Boy Scout camp as a counselor and then on to the Boy Scout Jamboree.
Jack has his own view on life. For one thing, he doesn’t like things to be too orderly. He also told me that as far as he is concerned, the four basic food groups are licorice, Slim Jims, pizza and Slurpees.
Here in Grand Forks we have switched into our summer mode. I see Elks pool is open. And this weekend, Dakota Sales Co. will have the Budweiser Clydesdale horses in town. They will be stabled at Gambucci Arena. It’s been interesting to watch Dakota Sales grow. It used to be owned by Ernie Boucher, who lived next door to us here on Cottonwood Street. I still think of him and Liz Boucher when I see the purple tulips come up on the south side of that house each year. They would be pleased to see the way Jay and Chrissy Novak take care of the flowers now.
Liz is gone and Ernie lives out in Montana. His son-in-law, Roger Kieffer, ran the company for a long time. Now Dakota Sales is in the hands of Ernie’s grandsons - Randy, Rick and Mark Kieffer. I don’t know if they will be riding the Clydesdale horses, though.
Love from your sister Marilyn, keeping track of the changing scenes along the banks of the Red River Valley of the North.
P.S. Michael Martin Murphey, complete with cowboy hat, will be at the Chester Fritz Auditorium tonight on the UND campus. Has he been in Tucson?
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