Welcome Jimmie - And Day Zero

James "The Lip" Demarco

Hey Jimmie - James Demarco - welcome back for another run with the Mo Stashed Hairiers. Jimmy "The Lip", "The Persuader", "The Enforcer", our Platinum Class Mo Bro.

No sooner has Jim joined the Mo Stashed Hairiers than we say thank you to our first Sponsors, Jaymie Doucette & Adam Stewart. It is indeed a great cause. Thank you.

Well folks, today is the day of The Great Shave - Day Zero. Tally Ho!

Chopping and Cropping For The Cure

Greg Forbes from my 2008 Archive

Along with Kevin we now have another two colleagues of mine who are willing to make the cut - literally - for both currently sport well groomed, gentlemanly facial fur - enough to make a cat purr. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Greg Forbes back to the ranks of the Mo Stashed Hairiers (thunderous applause) AND... rookie and latest crusader for The Cause, Patrick Ford! (more thunderous applause)

Like Al Minnick, both of these men will be chopping and cropping for The Cure. That alone deserves a sponsorship donation, surely? Please do consider clicking on one of their names to make a donation - or click on the red "Donate Now" General Team Sponsorship button.

With Five We're Looking Alive

Four Mo Stashed Hairiers
Trying to look alive
Al Minnick said he'll shave his stache
And then there were five.

Welcome to the team, Al. It's great that Lynn was so encouraging - a real Mo Sista !

Does Movember Impact Behaviour?

Whilst fundraising is one key part of the Movember mission, raising awareness is equally important if we want to help match the gains seen by the women’s health movement. Each year Movemember organisers carry out a piece of research with Deakin University in Australia, the aim of which is to understand whether Movember is having an impact on behaviour as a result of Mo Bro and Sista participation. The latest results suggest Movember is having a direct and significant impact on both men’s health awareness and behaviour:

• 54% talked about men’s health issues with others, with 30% of those attributing that directly to their involvement in Movember
• 22% did some of their own research into men’s health issues, with 51% of those attributing that directly to their involvement in Movember
• 35% sought medical advice, with 10% of those attributing that directly to their involvement in Movember
• 38% encouraged someone else to seek medical advice, with 20% of those attributing that directly to their involvement in Movember.

Source: Mo Awareness Program

Now Four, No Longer Poor - Welcome Peter

Three Mo Stashed Hairiers
Looking rather poor.
Peter Righton registered
And then there were four!

Congratulations to us. We have our first team donation.

Here's a cool Movember promotion with Lanny McDonald.


...or watch on YouTube

And then there were three!

Tom Sagar - with water melon!

On Mo Stashed Hairier
Who didn't have a clue.
Along came Kevin
And then there were two.

Two Mo Stashed Hairiers
Happy as can be.
Up popped Tom Sagar
And then there were three!

Welcome to the team, Tom. This is your first Movember on the hairy side - I'm sure you are going to enjoy all the adulation. Right!

Here is a link to "The Rules"

A Team of Two - Welcome Kevin

It's great to have Kevin Timmins back on the team. Welcome back Kevin.



Movember 2010

For the 2010 campaign, Movember will again raise funds for Prostate Cancer Canada.  Let's take a further look at how your funds are having an incredible impact.

PCC uses funds raised by Movember for the development of programs related to awareness, public education, advocacy, support of those affected, and research into the prevention, detection, treatment and cure of prostate cancer.

Movember funds have allowed PCC to invest in programs that were once unachievable due to lack of funding and resources. Over the past three years Movember has become the primary funder for some very exciting, and innovative programs that could change the future of prostate cancer, and men’s health as we know it.  So check out this video of Dr. Anthony Joshua explaining how your funds are changing the face of men's health.

Remember, remember the month of Movember

Your country needs your upper lip

Remember, remember the month of Movember
Fun with Mo reason
For this is the season
For lips to grow stubble
So efforts can double
That cancer gets whipped
By those hairy lipped
And their sponsors who give
To the scientists who live
For the day when they find out the way
After all we've endured
That cancer gets cured.