The kindest cut: Ducks' George Parros to donate his hair for charity

The kindest cut: Ducks’ George Parros to donate his hair for charity

Sports Columnist

Dec. 11, 2009 7:49 PM PT

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Ducks right wing George Parros is about to get his long hair shorn -- for a good cause.

For the third straight season Parros will donate his hair to the Childhood Leukemia Foundation, which helps provide wigs to kids who lose their hair during cancer treatment. This year’s event will take place Monday at The Rinks-Huntington Beach, 5555 McFadden Ave., from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Parros will be joined by 50 Ducks fans ages 6 and up who were invited to donate their hair. Sport Clips donated the services of 15 professional stylists to cut participants’ hair.

All hair donors will have an opportunity to meet Parros and get a gift to honor their donation. He will be available for pictures and autographs for a suggested $10 donation to the Anaheim Ducks Foundation, with 100% of the proceeds benefiting the Childhood Leukemia Foundation. Parros’ new apparel line, ‘Stache Gear, will be sold at the event and all proceeds will benefit CLF and Garth Brooks Teammates for Kids.

-- Helene Elliott

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.