Some students living in Harriman got to visit a barber this week when Dexter Hughes stopped by American Legion Post 232 to give free haircuts to children going back to school.
“I’m a licensed master barber in Clermont, Florida, and I am from Harriman,” Hughes said. “And as school got close I said there’s something I can do because this is where I’m from and you know times are hard right now with the gas prices and everything. So I said let me go home and do back-to-school haircuts.”
Hughes has been with the Legion for several years.
“I called them and said I wanted to set up an event where I could give free haircuts to the kids,” he said. “Everybody was on board, talked with my wife about the idea and here I am.”
Hughes ended up giving haircuts to between 30 to 40 children while at the post. He plans on doing it again next year.
“I’m going to make it a yearly event,” he said. “I plan on doing it every year. Whatever I can do to help out the community that’s what I want to do. I’m from here, the military raised me so I can give back.”
“As veterans we are sometimes forgotten but we’re like pillars of the community,” Hughes added. “So, in order to be pillars of the community sometimes we have to give back, so this is my way of giving back.”
