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Sewanhanka staff, students shave off beards for charity
Photo credit: Erin Geismar
Anthony Vasquez, who works for the Village of Stewart Manor Department of Public Works, was climbing into a truck one day at the end of September when a man came up to him and yelled out, “Nice beard!”
Vasquez, 58, was accustomed to his thick, scraggly beard attracting attention -- both good and bad -- but not usually from complete strangers.
Then the man introduced himself as Robert...
