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Posted on: August 24, 2016 at 10:10:10 CT
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http://www.ocregister.com/articles/haircuts-726501-younger-davis.html

Bellies were filled and faces transformed at the Southwest Community Center on Saturday as hundreds of the homeless enjoyed free barbecue and haircuts, courtesy of a local barber and four men who have played in the NBA.

Junie Davis, 46, of Placentia owns the Creations Salon and Barbershop in Irvine and regularly feeds the homeless and gives them haircuts. He mentioned the idea of a barbecue to players Jamal Sampson and Josh Childress, who offered to pitch in, and then Keyon Dooling and another player with NBA ties who didn’t want to be identified joined in as well.

All five were at Saturday’s event at the center, at Second and Forest streets.

The halls echoed with “God bless you” and other grateful gestures as guests enjoyed their food, and volunteer barbers offered haircuts – food for the spirit was how Davis put it.

“What a haircut does for you is your confidence immediately goes up,” he said. “I don’t care where you were; it’s higher now and you feel better about yourself. ...

“It helps me make that connection with them, because it’s a personal moment,” Davis said. “That personal time – it’s just me and you. I’m cutting and we’re talking. That’s where that feeding of the spirit and soul is happening.”

Leon Younger, 60, spent time on the streets last week for the first time in his life. Younger said coming to the barbecue and getting a haircut provided him with a sense of camaraderie that he thought he had lost when he hit the streets.

“Those nights on the street, I was alone,” Younger said. “The only thing you can do at these moments is try to lift each other up and hope that the rest of society starts catching on.”
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