As part of this year’s fundraising for Lee National Denim Day, the Pierce County Prosecuting Attorney office’s Denim Day committee asked a few fellow employees to shave their heads to help raise money and to show solidarity with Maureen Goodman, a deputy prosecutor in the Felony Division. She is undergoing treatment for breast cancer and lost her hair some time ago.

The department challenged employees to raise $2,000 so that three male employees would shave their heads. Then Bertha Fitzer, DPA in the Felony Division, offered to donate in the office’s name $500 for every employee in the office who volunteered to shave his head. This money came from donations totaling about $5,000 that her husband, private attorney Steve Fitzer, collected earlier this year for the breast cancer three-day walk. That spurred another dozen or so male employees to offer up their heads for shaving.

In total, the department raised $1,591 for the EIF-breast cancer programs, the official benefactor of Lee National Denim Day, and $5,305 was donated to the Susan Komen for the Cure Foundation. The money raised by the office came from sale of pink rose bouquets the committee put together, soup feeds, sale of pink ribbon bookmarks and Denim Day itself.

On Oct. 17, Prosecuting Attorney Gerry Horne and a number of his deputy prosecutors followed through by having their heads shaved.