People who signed up for trims and clips at the Wedgeway Barber Shop Saturday afternoon got a little extra for their money.

In addition to the usual fine treatment offered by Richard DiCristofaro and his team of barbers, patrons left the Schenectady landmark knowing they had helped a young girl in a tough medical spot.

Emily Quick, 8, of Rotterdam (pictured HERE) has Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis (LCH), a rare blood disease that generally strikes children. Her family needs a little help with medical bills so DiCristafaro and his crew — Dawn Taylor, Laura Downs and Justyn Staley — decided to stay late Saturday and put in extra work.

From 1 until 4 p.m., the barbers were working for Emily. The affable DiCristofaro said more than $2,000 was raised.

“We probably had between 85 and 100 people in the shop, but they weren’t all there for haircuts,” DiCristofaro said.

Plastic chairs were placed outside the shop, located on Erie Boulevard across from the Amtrak train station, so people could wait their turns with the scissors or shoot the breeze with people they knew.

“Emily was there for the duration,” DiCristofaro said. “She was there with her mother and dad and younger brother.”

The brother received the shaved head treatment, a show of support for Emily and her upcoming chemotherapy treatments. Joseph Mallozzi, 9, an Emily pal and DiCristofaro grandson, also got the smooth look.

Sounds like a lot of good sports showed up. DiCristofaro said a man donated a box of handmade jewelry for sale and for Emily’s cause; other people pulled up to the shop and didn’t need a trim, but decided their wallets did — they donated a few bucks to help out Miss Quick.

The “haircut-a-thon” was actually Dawn Taylor’s idea. But Richard was in charge of promotion, and the man knows how to sell a story — we carried a piece about the fund-raiser last Thursday.

I’ve been visiting DiCristofaro for almost 10 years now, and the man has heart. These days, he has a lot more heart than he used to.

This spring, DiCristofaro began experiencing shortness of breath and chest pains. As he has a family history of heart problems, he met with doctors and they found 85 percent blockage in a main artery. He was quickly prepped for a triple bypass operation that happened in early May.

Richard was back on the job fast — no surprise there.

“I feel like a young man again,” DiCristofaro said. “A lot younger than my 69 years.”