Charity Cut-A-Thon To Celebrate Salon's 25th Year

WESTHAMPTON BEACH, NY —For generations, cuts at Lillian’s Hair Salon in Westhampton Beach have been an important part of countless family memories.

Now celebrating 25 years in business, owner Lillian Schon is hosting a Charity Cut-A-Thon Sunday to mark the momentous anniversary — giving back to help children with brain or spinal cord tumors.

Raffles, food, fun, and $25 haircuts will be offered at Lillian's Hair Salon, located at 63 Main Street in Westhampton Beach, on Sunday from noon to 4 p.m.

One hundred percent of the funds raised will be donated to the Making Headway Foundation.

No appointment necessary. No wash, no blow — just cut and go, she said. No credit cards; cash or tax deductible checks made payable to "Making Headway."

Those who can't attend can still send a donation check to Clint and Elisa Greenbaum at 61 Seafield Lane, Westhampton Beach, NY 11978.

Raffle prizes include tennis court time, yoga classes, a Nespresso coffee maker and more.

Also included will be a silent auction for a Westhampton Country Club foursome package, which includes carts, green fees and lunch, valid Monday through Thursday for the fall, 2018 and spring, 2019 golf season; the package is valued at $1,250. Call Elisa, 516-443-5943, to bid as part of the silent auction on the day of the event.

Characters, including Elsa and Anna and Mario Brothers, will be at the event to delight the kids.

For more than 20 years, the Making Headway Foundation, co-founded by Clint Greenbaum, has been supporting families of children with brain or spinal cord tumors.

The cause is deeply personal to the Greenbaums: When their son Jake was only three months old, they got the news that no parents should ever have to hear — their baby had a malignant brain tumor.

"He had major brain surgery and then chemotherapy, but he was very lucky — he survived. Most don't," Clint Greenbaum said. "He's an absolute miracle. We call him our miracle boy."

In the years that passed, Jake, now 28 years old and unable to speak, developed a love of baseball games — something that inspired Greenbaum to pay his good fortune forward by co-founding of Seats of Dreams, a national nonprofit launched in 2012 that gives donated sports and entertainment tickets to disadvantaged, disabled or sick children

Patch photo of Lillian Schon and Jake Greenbaum courtesy of Greenbaum family.