If you see girls with pink hair in Suffern, they’re not getting a jump on Halloween.

They’re doing their part to help fight breast cancer.

Lisa Daly of Montebello, who owns Salon Atelier at 95 Lafayette Avenue in Suffern, has installed about 275 pink hair extensions for girls and women who donate $10 to Pink Hair for Hope, a program coordinated by extension manufacturer SO. CAP. USA as a benefit for the National Breast Cancer Foundation.

Last year the program raised more than $480,000 nationally during September and October.

Daly and stylists at Salon Atelier got certified to do extensions recently and got a late start on the fund-raiser, beginning about two weeks ago.

They will wrap up their participation for this year Thursday evening, when there will be light refreshments between 6 and 8 p.m. for those who come in to make a donation and get their burst of pink hair.

The response this month, Daly says, has been far beyond what she might have expected. “I’ve had to call several times, asking for more hair,” she says.

Just this afternoon, she says, about 20 girls came through with their mothers — some with their grandmothers along, too.

“We’ve had mothers, grandmothers, Girl Scout groups, girls from Hal Block and Tornadoes Soccer programs. Some have even made donations without taking the extensions,” which get bonded to the individual’s hair.

Daly, whose mother is a breast cancer survivor, has worked at the salon since she was 17 and became its owner just about five years ago.

Over that time, she says, “I’ve seen so many customers who have had breast cancer and one of my friends from Montebello has just been diagnosed.”

Next year, Daly says, the salon will lengthen its participation, beginning in mid-September and lasting through October.

It’s something she wants to do, she says, because “breast cancer touches so many people and it’s so dear to my heart.

Good to see the Department of Transportation get the new James A. Farley Memorial Bridge done, not only on time, but ahead of schedule.

Looks like offering a financial incentive — in this case $900,000 on a $14 million project — worked to motivate the contractor to get it finished.

The DOT has taken it’s far share of heat here for numerous bridge projects in Rockland that got stalled by engineering or design problems, issues with contractors or some combination.

It’s happened in Monsey, Montebello, Tallman and elsewhere, but the  all time winner was in Sparkill, where the DOT started work, realized damage to the bridge was worse than anticipated and required pulling the entire structure down.

That one got delayed over and over because the steel for the replacement wasn’t immediately available.

It cost merchants and it had residents hopping mad as time using detours dragged on and on.

Fortunately, that wasn’t the case this time around and the DOT and the contractor — Harrison & Burrowes Bridge Constructors of Glenmont, N.Y. — deserve credit for beating the deadline with what looks to be a replacement that will last.