• When: Aug. 19 beginning at 8 a.m.

• Where: Madison Avenue Salon, 168 Main St., Auburn

• How much: $12 haircuts all day.

• FMI: 782-5920

Stylists to cut hair for friend

AUBURN – Stylists at an Auburn salon will donate proceeds from every haircut they give Saturday to benefit 24-year-old Ryan Coy, a 2000 Edward Little grad paralyzed in a May car wreck.

“We’re just hoping a lot of people show up,” said Kelly Delaphonse, one of the stylists at the Madison Avenue Salon. She, Taylor-Paige Cote and Stacy Williams are hoping hundreds of people show up Saturday to help their friend.

“We’re really going to be cranking them out,” Delaphonse said. “We’ll have our clippers all ready, our spray bottles out and shears ready to go to town.”

Cote said the idea occurred to her late one night. She’d been toying with the idea of having a hair-cutting competition with other salons.

“But I knew we needed to do it to benefit some charity,” Cote said. “Then I remembered Ryan.”

Coy, a 2000 Edward Little graduate, was paralyzed in a May 6 accident. Carol Coy of Pleasant Street in Oxford, his mother, said Ryan was late to an appointment. A deer ran in front of his car, he swerved to miss it and his car rolled three times.

“That’s how fast your life can change,” Coy said. “One minute, you’re running late and then, here you are.”

He suffered massive injuries to his spinal cord, leaving him with no use of his legs and partial use of his hands.

Coy said the family wants to purchase an EZ Stand 6000 Glider, a $6,000 piece of muscle therapy equipment. Cote said they’re hoping to help the family buy the equipment with their cut-a-thon.

“At first, we just wanted to try and earn a little, like $100, and pay for part of it,” Cote said. “Then I started to get excited about it. I want to see how much we can do. We want to try and go for all of it.”

All haircuts will cost $12 each beginning at 8 a.m.

“We’ll stop when we run out of heads to cut,” Delaphonse said.

They’ll have to do 500 haircuts between the three – about 20 haircuts an hour for eight hours- to reach their goal.

“We know we really can’t, so we’re asking for help,” Delaphonse said. The salon has seven bays available, and they’re asking for any local stylists to volunteer to spend some time cutting.

“Plus, we’re going to need breaks,” Delaphonse said. “If we’re standing there cutting hair for 12 hours without eating or anything, we’re going to slow down.”