PATRONS at the Tamworth City Bowling Club certainly let their hair down from time-to-time, but completely parting ways with one's barnet at the bowlo was an unusual sight until recently.
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The manicured greens became more like a barber's floor as the Rotary Club of Tamworth Sunrise doled out some of the most expensive buzz-cuts in the city's history.
Thirteen heads shaved, a moustache mowed and a beard buzzed came to the princely sum of $19,455.85 at the bowlo barbershop.
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It was all in honour of their friend Steve Gribbin, recently diagnosed with cancer, with the donated to the Leukaemia Foundation through the World's Greatest Shave initiative.
Rotary club president Nic Hinwood said it was beyond everyone's expectation with the initial target set at $2000.
While the club's still taking donations through its World's Greatest Shave page, Mr Hinwood said its focus had now shifted.
"For Gribbo, we're in support mode," he said.
"So checking-in with him and ensuring life is as easy and simple as possible for him and Faye so he can focus on treatment."
Mr Gribbin has returned to RPA in Sydney where he is undergoing an intensive program of chemotherapy, made somewhat more complicated as a transplant recipient.
Mrs Gribbin has been overwhelmed by the support shown since Steve's Leukaemia diagnosis.
"It was absolutely wonderful," she said of the fundraiser.
"The club members have been so supportive ... they're a wonderful group of people."