IF YOU GOWhat: Chattanooga Market.When: 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday.Where: First Tennessee Pavilion, 1829 Carter St.Admission: Free.Contact: 648-2496.Website: www.chattanoogamarket.com
It won’t be cicadas you hear at Chattanooga Market on Sunday. It will be the whine of hair clippers shaving heads to raise money for the Children’s Hospital Foundation at Erlanger.
People already are volunteering to have their hair buzzed as part of Jack’s Chattanoggins, the event at First Tennessee Pavilion named for Signal Mountain 12-year-old Jack Skowronnek, who was inspired to get his head shaved for the first time two years ago by the book “Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie.”
In the book, a middle-school student gets his head shaved in solidarity with a younger sibling with cancer.
Jack first had his head shaved two years ago when the family lived in the Chicago area. Donations went to the St. Baldrick’s Foundation, a volunteer-driven charity committed to funding the most promising research to find cures for childhood cancers.