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St. Baldrick's at Basin

Bald is beautiful...

Hair was flying as 109 Basin Electric employees and Bismarck-Mandan community members lost their "do's" to clippers and scissors during the first-ever St. Baldrick's event held in North Dakota.

The boardroom at Headquarters quickly filled with shavees and individuals excited to see their friends and co-workers lose their locks during the St. Patrick's Day event.

Basin employee Rose Thompson gets her head shaved.

Leland Olds Station employee Don Retterath gets his head shaved

Dakota Gasification Company employee Cindy Kuylen gets her head shaved.

Each year, thousands of volunteers shave their heads in solidarity of children with cancer while requesting donations of support from friends and family. The men, women and children who participated in the 2008 St. Baldrick's fun at Basin Electric raised more than $93,000.

Basin Electric employee Levi Kom gets his face shaved along with his head.

Several men lost more
than the hair on top of
their heads...

Bismarck-Mandan community members Jerry Diekman gets his face shaved along with his head.

Basin employee Emily McKay donated 10 inches of hair to Locks of Love.

Emily McKay was one of
several individuals who
donated 10 inches of
hair to Lock of Love.

Facility teams participating in the 2008 event were:

AVS Chrome Domes

Gone in 60 Seconds

Hair Today: Gone Tomorrow

IS&T Uncovered

LRS Fallen Follicles

The Cutting Edge Communicators

The Good, the Bald, and the Ugly

Numerous individuals also collected money to shave their heads. Several adults and children cut ten inches from their ponytails and donated them to Locks of Love.

Sharing the shaving

In addition to the March 17 fun and festivities at Headquarters, similar events were held at Basin Electric's other facilities: Antelope Valley Station, Leland Olds Station, and Dakota Gasification Company's Great Plains Synfuels Plant in North Dakota; the Laramie River Station in Wyoming, and several transmission systems maintenance outposts.

Employees at AVS, DGC, HQD, LRS, LOS and TSM took part in the St. Baldrick's Day hair shaving.

Transmission System Maintenance employee Tyler Lindholm gets his head shaved.

Laramie River Station employee Scott Aurich gets his head shaved.

Leland Olds Station employee Kim Jackson gets her head shaved.

Bismarck-Mandan community member Jon Bailey gets his head shaved.

DGC employees Don Schnabel and Lou Hansana get their heads shaved.

Several employees made
collecting donations a
team effort.

DGC employees Lynn Bruce and Ivar Fransten get their heads shaved.

AVS employee Dennis Cahoon

Shavees weren't the only
ones teaming up to get the
job done.

Getting to the root

The husband-wife Basin Electric team of Emily McKay, event planner/charitable giving coordinator, and Ted Cash, supervisor of media support services, originally brought the idea of Basin Electric supporting the first-ever St. Baldrick's Foundation event in North Dakota to the company. Their suggestion turned out to be a great success.

Basin Electric and its subsidiaries are gearing up to organize an even bigger event in 2009.

A group of Basin Electric employees get their heads shaved at Headquarters.

A group of employees simultaneously
lose their locks at Headquarters.

Ron Harper, CEO and general manager, shaves the head of Mike Eggl, senior vice president of External Relations and Communications.

The exclusive rights to shave the
head of Mike Eggl, senior vice
president of External Relations and
Communications, went to the highest
bidder - Ron Harper, CEO and general
manager.

About St. Baldrick's Foundation

Since its inception in 2000, St. Baldrick's Foundation has raised more than $48.5 million for the cause, and shaved more than 71,000 heads in 18 countries and 48 states of the United States. Despite tremendous progress, cancer remains the No. 1 killer disease of children in the United States and Canada. The foundation's mission is to raise awareness and funds to cure kids' cancer by supporting cancer research and fellowships.

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Glossary

"Scissor happy"

A group of AVS employees gets ready to go bald.

A group of Antelope Valley Station employees got "scissor happy" before shaving their heads.

Just checking...

DGC employee Bruce Weightman's son checks out his father's newly shaved head.

Dakota Gasification Company shift superintendent Bruce Weightman's son inspects his father's new do.

In the news

Basin Electric employee Ted Cash got his head shaved by news anchor Marci Narum.

Ted Cash, supervisor of media support services, loses his hair as the state watches news anchor Marci Narum shave his head on live television.

More about St. Baldrick's at Basin

Basin Today article - "A cut above the rest" (PDF)
News Release - Jan. 22
News Release - Feb. 8
News Release - March 12
News Release - March 18
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