Beat writer with a cause and some hair to cut

Hello, everyone. My name is Ethan Joyce. I'm the guy on the right of the picture above.

I'm a sports writer, and I cover Appalachian State for the Winston-Salem Journal in North Carolina. Recently I met Kaleb Bowman (the guy on the left) and learned about something incredible he's doing. Kaleb, a senior pitcher on the Mountaineers baseball team, decided to grow his hair out a couple years ago to honor his mother, a cancer survivor who was diagnosed twice in 2012 with two different forms of the disease.

Read about Kaleb and his family here:
https://www.journalnow.com/sports/college/asu/why-did-app-state-s-kaleb-bowman-grow-out-his/article_f691aebd-8686-5a2b-8239-7a0490e4c2f2.html 

Kaleb's plan is to eventually cut his hair and donate it in the hopes of providing a wig to a child fighting cancer. His idea made want to give back in my own way. 

So here's what I'm trying to do: I want to raise at least $1,000 for the V Foundation for Cancer Research, a fantastic organization that's in our state.

And if you guys help me hit that fundraising mark, I'm going to cut my hair as well to donate. I've been growing mine out since 2015. I love my hair (I mean, look at it for goodness sake). But I'm willing to let it go for this fantastic cause. 

So please consider donating to this cause, and let's try to make any difference we can. 

Here's some more information about The V Foundation for Cancer Research: The V Foundation is a charitable organization dedicated to saving lives by helping to find a cure for cancer. The V Foundation seeks to make a difference by generating broad-based support for cancer research and by creating an urgent awareness among all Americans of the importance of the war against cancer. The V Foundation preforms these dual roles through advocacy, education, fundraising and philanthropy.