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November is men’s health awareness month and the Mukilteo Police Department will again support this event by encouraging officers to donate to prostate cancer research.

For their support, officers will be authorized to forego shaving their beards for the entire month of November. The goal of No-Shave November, or Movember, is to bring awareness to men’s health by embracing hair, which many cancer patients lose during treatment.

Recent Prostate Cancer data reveals that in 2020 there has been about 191,930 new cases of prostate cancer and one in nine men will be diagnosed with prostate...