Beards do their part for 3D mammography
Collin Stephens wasn’t all that sure about this whole Most Valuable Beard thing back in early November.Oh, the cause — raising money to bring 3D mammography to Mercy Medical Center-New Hampton — was great and Stephens has had a beard for years.The issue was simple. To be part of the campaign, Stephens would have to first be clean shaven.“For a guy like me from Texas, a beard is pretty nice when it comes to November in Iowa,” said Stephens, TriMark’s environmental, safety and training coordinator. “I was reading books on how to make a beard grow faster.”— For more on this story, see the Dec. 7 New Hampton Tribune.