By Casey Neill
Dandenong North man Frank Darcy is fresh-faced for the first time in 52 years.
A moustache had featured on the 70-year-old’s upper lip since he was 18 years old.
On Sunday 19 March he said goodbye to “everything above the shoulders” and raised $4080 for the Leukaemia Foundation.
Mr Darcy held his World’s Greatest Shave event at Noble Park RSL. The day included auctions, raffles, live music, sausage sizzles, and people colouring and shaving their hair.
“We had 10 people shave, including four women,” he said.
“Three of them had long hair. We were able to keep their hair for wigs.”
A friend of Mr Darcy’s has battled leukaemia for nearly three years.
“I know what a great job the Leukaemia Foundation has done,” he said.
More than 31 Australians are diagnosed with leukaemia, lymphoma or myeloma every day, and an Australian will lose their life to blood cancer every two hours.
The Leukaemia Foundation funds research and free support for blood cancer sufferers and their families.
Visit www.worldsgreatestshave.com.au to donate.
