AUBURN — Twin Cities mayors will challenge each other’s upper-lip-follicle prowess throughout November, seeing who can grow the best mustache to promote prostate cancer awareness.
Auburn Mayor Dick Gleason challenged Lewiston Mayor Larry Gilbert at a special workshop meeting of both city councils Monday night in Auburn Hall.
Gilbert accepted the challenge, then extended it to include all male members of the two city councils.
“I used to wear a mustache, many years ago,” Gilbert said. Gleason said he wore a mustache at one time, as well. “But my mustache grows straight out,” he said.
Gleason said Bill Schurman, governor of the Lewiston Maineiacs hockey team, would be the judge. Competitors would attend a joint meeting Nov. 1 cleanshaven, to be inspected by Schurman. Currently mustachioed councilors will have to remove their facial hair before that meeting, he said.
The winner would be decided at a Maineiacs hockey game on Nov. 26, Gleason said. The Maineiacs are scheduled to play Moncton that night.
Gleason said the contest was a lighthearted way to draw attention to prostate health and prostate cancer.
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