Supporting St. Baldrick's with Kitty Hoynes 2026

03/18/2026

We had a great time celebrating St. Baldrick’s last weekend at the Syracuse St. Patrick’s Day Parade! Thank you for everyone’s support!

If you would like to support St. Baldrick’s in our area, please see the message from Bodie, long time shavee!

Hi Everyone,

I’m Bodie Centore and my event, Buckets for St. Baldrick’s is trying to raise 100k by Sunday, March 22nd for children’s cancer research in its fifth year.

This event is a 3v3 youth basketball tournament at Cherry Road Elementary school benefiting St. Baldrick’s that I started in 2022 after I stopped shaving my head at Kitty Hoyne’s.

If you’re looking for a way to support St. Baldrick’s and the fight against childhood cancer now that Kitty Hoyne’s is done hosting their event after an awesome 20 years, we’d appreciate your support!

If you’d like to donate and help us reach this milestone of 100k, you can do so using this link: https://www.stbaldricks.org/events/buckets26. Thank you in advance. Let’s conquer childhood cancer and keep the momentum from Kitty Hoyne’s rolling in Syracuse!

-Bodie

This St. Baldrick's Foundation event is raising money for childhood cancer research by shaving heads! Whether you decide to shave your head, volunteer, or donate, we hope you'll be a part of the excitement.

03/13/2026

If you plan on marching with us tomorrow, check out the information on our event page at St. Baldricks’s’

Did you know that 300,000 kids are diagnosed with cancer each year, and that 1 in 5 will not survive? This St. Baldrick's fundraiser is raising money for childhood cancer research to help change that. Make a donation to support their efforts!

03/05/2026

Still time to sign up if you want to Parade with Us on 3/14!! Fun for the whole family! Please direct questions to Sophia Sophia Meskos . Happy March!!

Did you know that 300,000 kids are diagnosed with cancer each year, and that 1 in 5 will not survive? This St. Baldrick's fundraiser is raising money for childhood cancer research to help change that. Make a donation to support their efforts!

02/24/2026

It’s a Baldricks time of the year! Registration for Buckets closes soon!

02/22/2026

Still time to parade with us!

Did you know that 300,000 kids are diagnosed with cancer each year, and that 1 in 5 will not survive? This St. Baldrick's fundraiser is raising money for childhood cancer research to help change that. Make a donation to support their efforts!

01/26/2026

As you all know there will not be a shave at Kitty Hoynes in 2026 but that is not slowing our commitment to St. Baldrick's down in our area!

We will be supporting area events, and still have a few trick's up our sleeves!

Please check out a special event for our past participants, shavees, honored children and families and volunteers!

12/03/2025

We’ll still be shaving in 2026, not at Kittys but keep an eye out for ‘26 events! Thinking ballpark, we know a guy! Thanks so much to all of our Baldricks’s Family!

https://www.syracuse.com/living/2025/12/the-hearts-behind-syracuses-st-baldricks-tradition-will-lead-the-st-patricks-parade-in-2026.html?gift=f00200e9-9d63-4e60-9fbf-aae574b44f1fec

The 44th annual parade is March 14, just 102 days away.

01/17/2025

https://www.upstate.edu/news/articles/2025/2024-01-08-matilda.php

Among first group of local patients to receive leukemia drug is 10-year-old Matilda Loomis of Manlius.

01/09/2025

01/03/2025

We are very excited to announce that our 20th Annual St. Baldrick’s Day Fundraiser for Childhood Cancer Research will take place on Sunday March 30, 2025 at Kitty Hoyne’s in Armory Square in Downtown Syracuse, NY.

Our Kitty Hoyne’s family, lead by David & Cindy Hoyne, were instrumental in bringing this worldwide fundraising phenomenon to Central New York in the Spring of 2005, and after significant success locally, it became the conduit for so many organizations to launch their own events all over the region, spreading the love to so many families and children who continue to fight childhood cancer.

Our event brought together so many cancer families and their children, which, in turn, brought together so many caring people who fought so hard to raise money to support the St. Baldrick’s organization and its mission to eradicate childhood cancer. Everyone who passed through our doors in Armory Square for all those years has delivered on our promise. Over 19 years, we have raised over $6.7 million dollars and shaved close to 7500 heads. We topped the worldwide fundraising charts for several of those years, including a 4 year span from 2016 through 2019, delivering a half a million dollars or more each year, over those 4 remarkable campaigns.

With that being said, we all feel it’s time to pass the torch, and announce that this campaign will be our last at Kitty Hoyne’s. That obviously provides us with a chance to bring together everyone, and we mean EVERYONE, who has been a part of this amazing family over the course of 19 years. If you have shaved, if you have donated, if you were a stylist / barber, or if you simply prayed for all of our wonderful families, we want you to join us in March. If you are new to this event, we certainly welcome you to join us as well,

Our event page will be up and running on January 1, 2025. Please sign up, please raise as much as you can, and help us to make one of the best things we have ever undertaken become the most successful ever!

Love you all. Let’s bring the whole family back together!
With our gratitude and appreciation.
The Kitty Hoyne’s St. Baldrick’s Team

01/03/2025

https://www.stbaldricks.org/events/KittyHoynes25

This St. Baldrick's Foundation event is raising money for childhood cancer research by shaving heads! Whether you decide to shave your head, volunteer, or donate, we hope you'll be a part of the excitement.

01/03/2025

Happy New Year! We are busy getting ready to launch our 2025 Shave! Save the Date for Sunday, March 30, 2025!! Stay tuned for updates here about our events page and more special announcements!