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(NICK SHORT/Standard-Examiner) 
Shawn Housley gives Adam King a haircut and hot towel shave at Gents in Ogden. Gents is located inside Endless Indulgence at 136 25th Street.

A barber’s touch: Old-fashioned grooming offered at Ogden shop

OGDEN — Seven years ago Shawn Housley sat in a hair salon getting his hair cut, looked around and realized he wanted something new.

He was tired of the same look that everyone had and all the “sparkles.” He thought about the last time he visited a true barber — one that gave him a cut with a razor, a shave and warm towels. He wanted to help others feel the same way he felt in that barber chair.

“I have always liked taking care of people, it’s just what I’ve always done,” he said.

General public rarely discusses, understands proposed laws

If anyone doubts the wisdom of the state constitutional limit of 45 days for the Utah legislative session, here is some math for you.

Our industrious and hardworking legislators averaged approval of a little more than 12 bills per calendar day — 72 a week. By the end of the session, 544 new bills had been passed to swell the contents of our state statutes. Only a very few of these proposed new laws will ever be discussed by the general public.

This influx of new laws creates a feeling of mixed emotion in me.

In first case of its type in Utah, thief cuts off horse tail

ST. GEORGE — Sheriff’s deputies are searching for a thief who cut off a horse’s tail in what’s being called the first known case of its kind in Utah.

Eddie Zawacki, of Washington County’s Dammeron Valley, said the tail of her horse Naja was cut just below the muscle and bone section this week, netting the thief about 2 feet of hair.

Cosmetology bill will move to House

SALT LAKE CITY — A House committee has given a favorable recommendation to legislation designed to reduce the number of hours required to be licensed as a cosmetologist from 2,000 to 1,600 hours and adds an exemption from licensure for those who braid hair.

The bill, HB 238, cleared a House committee by a unanimous vote Tuesday and will now go to the House for further review. Rep. James Dunningan, R-Taylorsville, is the bill’s sponsor.

This photo from Rylee MacKay’s Facebook page, courtesy of The Spectrum, a newspaper in St. George, shows the 15-year-old’s hair, which Hurricane Middle School administrators say is too distracting because it looks purple and pink in the sunlight. Rylee, who was pulled out of classes on Wednesday, will be allowed to return when her hair is, according to Washington County School District policy, “within the spectrum of color that grows naturally.”

Hurricane student kicked out for hair with purplish-pink tones in sunlight

HURRICANE — A Southern Utah student has been removed from classes after administrators found her dyed hair color too distracting.

Rylee MacKay, a 15-year-old student at Hurricane Middle School in Hurricane, said she was sent to the office Wednesday after an administrator said her hair looked purple and pink in the sunlight.

Under Washington County School District policy, hair “should be within the spectrum of color that grows naturally,” and administrators can decide whether a color is too distracting.

Stephanie Brinkerhoff colors Kortnee Hirschi’s hair Monday at Panache Hair Salon and Boutique in South Ogden. Brinkerhoff will travel to New York City this week as a hair and makeup correspondent for fashion website Refinery 29. (NICK SHORT/Standard-Examiner)

Top of Utah stylist headed to New York City’s Fashion Week

OGDEN — While most 12-year-old girls were asking for Barbie dolls and music CDs for Christmas, Stephanie Brinkerhoff had a different request in mind.

She asked for a mannequin head.

FREDDIE LACEY/Special to the Standard Examiner
Davis Applied Technology Center cosmetology student Amanda Deru (left) gives a free haircut to Hunter Heslop at Crestview Elementary School in Layton on Wednesday.

For students, by students: Cosmetologists give free haircuts

LAYTON -- Reading, writing and arithmetic, followed by a haircut.

It may seem unusual, but some lucky students at Crestview Elementary School got to pause from their studies Wednesday to take advantage of the free haircuts offered by students in the cosmetology program at Davis Applied Technology College in Kaysville.

MATTHEW ARDEN HATFIELD/Standard-Examiner
Cambrie Choi (left) and Katelyn Warlaumont hold up their hair after getting it cut off in Syracuse on Wednesday. The two decided to grow their hair long earlier in the year and cut it off to donate

Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

SYRACUSE -- Locks of Love receives more hair donations this time of year than any other, an official says.

C'mon, folks, do your patriotic duty and protect my hair

You tell yourself you aren't going to do it.

You say you're better than that, you're stronger -- that no matter what, you simply refuse to sink to their level.

And then it happens. Somewhere between the good intentions and the naive promises, you end up going all negative with your campaigning.

I'm afraid we've reached that point with the current race we've got brewing here in the Top o' Utah.

My beard and I are being attacked by kith and kin with razors

This fundraising beard challenge thing is officially ugly. Not the beard. It's gorgeous. But on the fundraising front, I'm seeing stab in the back, rip my heart out and stomp on it betrayal.

The perps? My own wife and kids.

The world may end before hair battle is finished

Remember Harold Camping, the Christian radio broadcaster who made headlines after calculating that the world was going to end on May 21 of this year?

Well, he's at it again. And this time, he really means it.

Apparently, Mr. Camping is undeterred by the fact that seemingly nothing out of the ordinary happened on that particular spring day when all heaven was supposed to break loose. (Well, a Utah horse was euthanized that fateful Saturday -- the first fatality in the state linked to the Equine Herpes Virus -- but that hardly seems apocalyptic.) Nevertheless, Camping continues to insist that a spiritual Rapture did occur on May 21, and that the final game-over event -- wherein the world is utterly destroyed -- is still right on schedule for Oct. 21, 2011.

United Way fundraiser targets hippie hair, ratty beard

It makes a darn catchy slogan: "The United Way: Thanks to you, I might actually have to get a haircut."

From left to right, Elizabeth Hughes, Dennis Jones, Edna Maggard, Robert Gardner, Sara Drake, Lt. T.J. Anderson, Dave Gallegos, Mike Counsellor sport their shaved heads in support of Maggard, 54.

Hill co-workers go bald to support woman's cancer fight

HILL AIR FORCE BASE -- With the help of a few bald co-workers, Edna Maggard says she will fight to survive cancer until the bitter end.

Maggard, 54, was diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer on March 27 this year.

The Roy resident, who works in the Missions Support Branch of the Ogden Air Logistics Center at Hill Air Force Base, suffered through the winter with a bad chest cold before doctors finally discovered a mass on her right lung.

Photo illustration by K'Lila Bingham/Bonneville High School/lilaphotography.k@gmail.com

Hair there and everywhere

There's just something about hair. We write stories about it, sing songs about it, covet it or lament the lack of it.

Hair has magical powers in Disney's cartoon film "Tangled." It signifies the ultimate sacrifice for love in "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry. We study it in English with F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Bernice Bobs Her Hair." We cut it for fundraisers and tie little bangles into it at girls' camp. We even say things like "get out of my hair" and "let your hair down."

(Nick Short/Standard-Examiner) Fallisha Kenney looks into the mirror as Brenda Wilson cuts her hair during a fundraiser Monday at The Cut Hut in Ogden.

Hair salon helps a fellow stylist deal with tragedy

OGDEN -- You know you'll need one.

Why not help others the next time you get a haircut?

That's the message a new salon wants to send as the beauticians there get the word out about a fundraiser they're pursuing through the end of the month.

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