Tag: Locks of Love

5-YEAR-OLD PROMISE: San Benito girl makes good on Locks of Love commitment

By CECILIA GONZALES Special to the NEWS While other children wish for toys or the latest gadgets on their birthday, Angelin Velaźquez-Garza wished for a haircut on her fifth birthday that would be donated to Locks of Love, a non-profit charity for cancer patients. “She started saying she wanted to donate her hair at 3 years …

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‘Locks of Love’ donation 4 years in making

By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com What better way to commemorate the commencement of a chapter in one’s life than to cut off all your hair and donate it to charity? That is exactly what 18-year-old Mary Rivas did. It was actually her second time donating her hair to charity, and it probably won’t …

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