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Salon giving free haircuts to families in need
Posey Place
A Posey Place is offering free back-to-school haircuts to families in need from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. July 25.

Hair salons and barber shops are usually closed on Mondays to make up for being open Saturdays, but A Posey Place is breaking tradition on July 25 for a good cause.

The salon, at 405 Harris Trail, will be open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. that day to give free haircuts for families in need.

“It’s a back-to-school thing for families who might not be able to afford haircuts,” said Michelle Millek, a stylist at the salon. “There’s already so much that families need to buy to get ready for the school year.”

Millek said the cuts are not just for kids though. Teachers who might be on a tight budget and parents are welcome, too.

“We just don’t want to see our regular customers show up because we know they can afford it,” Millek laughed. “We aren’t going to turn anyone away, but it’s really focused on families in need.”

Millek said four stylists will be on duty and cuts will be on a first come, first served basis.

“We’re just doing cuts and a shampoo if necessary,” she added. “We won’t be doing styling or blow drying so that we can get as many people done as possible. If we get a really big turnout, we’ll be able to give people a time frame to come back so they won’t have to sit and wait too long.”

Millek said the idea came up during a discussion at the salon about recent tragedies in the news.

“With all the negative stuff going on in the world we wanted to do something to give back to the community,” she said. “We started talking and this came up and everyone said yes right away.”

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This is among the last pieces I’ll ever write for the Bryan County News.

Friday is my last day with the paper, and come June 1 I’m headed back to my native Michigan.

I moved here in 2015 from the Great Lake State due to my wife’s job. It’s amicable, but she has since moved on to a different life in a different state, and it’s time for me to do the same.

My son Thomas, an RHHS grad as of Saturday, also is headed back to Michigan to play basketball for a small school near Ann Arbor called Concordia University. My daughter, Erin, is in law school at University of Toledo. She had already begun her college volleyball career at Lourdes University in Ohio when we moved down here and had no desire to leave the Midwest.

With both of them and the rest of my family up north, there’s no reason for me to stay here. I haven’t missed winter one bit, but I’m sure I won’t miss the sand gnats, either.

Shortly after we arrived here in 2015, I got a job in communications with a certain art school in Savannah for a few short months. It was both personally and professionally toxic and I’ll leave it at that.

In March 2016 I signed on with the Bryan County News as assistant editor and I’ve loved every minute of it. My “first” newspaper career, in the late 80s and early 90s, was great. But when I left it to work in politics and later with a free-market think tank, I never pictured myself as an ink-stained wretch again.

Like they say, never say never.

During my time here at the News, I’ve covered everything that came along. That’s one big difference between working for a weekly as opposed to a daily paper. Reporters at a daily paper have a “beat” to cover. At a weekly paper like this, you cover … life. Sports, features, government meetings, crime, fundraisers, parades, festivals, successes, failures and everything in between. Oh, and hurricanes. Two of them. I’ll take a winter blizzard over that any day.

Along the way I’ve met a lot of great people. Volunteers, business owners, pastors, students, athletes, teachers, coaches, co-workers, first responders, veterans, soldiers and yes, even some politicians.

And I learned that the same adrenalin rush from covering “breaking news” that I experienced right out of college is still just as exciting nearly 30 years later.

With as much as I’ve written about the population increase and traffic problems, at least for a few short minutes my departure means there will be one less vehicle clogging up local roads. At least until I pass three or four moving vans headed this way as I get on northbound I-95.

The hub-bub over growth here can be humorous, unintentional and ironic all at once. We often get comments on our Facebook page that go something like this: “I’ve lived here for (usually less than five years) and the growth is out of control! We need a moratorium on new construction.”

It’s like people who move into phase I of “Walden Woods” subdivision after all the trees are cleared out and then complain about trees being cut down for phase II.

Bryan County will always hold a special place in my heart and I definitely plan on visiting again someday. My hope is that my boss, Jeff Whitten (one of the best I’ve ever had), will let me continue to be part of the Pembroke Mafia Football League from afar. If the Corleone family could expand to Vegas, there’s no reason the PMFL can’t expand to Michigan.

But the main reason I want to return someday is about that traffic issue. After all, I’ll need to see it with my own eyes before I’ll believe that Highway 144 actually got widened.

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