To finish off their annual fundraising efforts for the Terry Fox Foundation, Strathcona-Tweedsmuir students and faculty cheered on their peers as they cut or shaved off their hair for cancer awareness.

On Friday three senior girls donated eight or more inches of hair, and four senior boys and seven school teachers shaved their heads for fundraising efforts.

Tina Kennedy and Holly Milne-Ives, teachers at Strathcona-Tweedsmuir, shaved their heads. Kennedy says it was she did it for her family members that have been affected by cancer.

"All of my grandparents have been impacted my cancer in some way or another but my one grandmother died of it, all of her sisters died of breast cancer and it's time for the cure to be actually curative."

Kennedy says she hopes better research will come from the funds her and the school are donating.

"I would like to see the research go in a direction where the treatment is not going to debilitate the person in the process, that quality of life can be maintained throughout the process and I know they are working towards it but they can do better."

This year Strathcona-Tweedsmuir School's annual fundraising efforts raised $17,500 for the Terry Fox Foundation and plans to donate even more in the future.

As for Kennedy she has cancelled her next hair appointment and is getting used to her recent change that she made to honour her family.

"My hair feels fine, it's much lighter now. I don't get attached to vanity pieces because of my grandmother who taught me not to so it's just hair, it will grow back."

In the past 31 years STS has raised over $600,000 for the Terry Fox Foundation.

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