HOUSE BOUND senior with gifts from area business after getting out for a free haircut. Courtesy of Your Neighbourhood Barbershop.
Thanks to some kind New Toronto small businesses a Christmas day in the life of a ‘lonely and hermit like’ senior was livened up with a fashionable haircut and gifts from newfound friends.
The senior was depressed and never left home according to an e-mail sent just days before Christmas to Andy Dinner, of Your Neighbourhood Barbershop, by the man’s sister, Dianne, who lives in Tillsonburg.
Dianne said her 68-year-old younger brother is alone and badly needs a haircut but couldn’t afford one.
SENIOR GETS free haircut from generous New Toronto barber and chance to meet some new friends. Courtesy photo.
“I am more than willing to pay if you allow me by Mastercard,” Dianne wrote in the e-mail that was posted on social media.
“He (brother) is very depressed being alone and we are hermits right now due to our age and vulnerability to COVID ourselves,” she explained. “He has had two COVID vaccinations ..”
Dianne said her brother did not have access to an Iphone, email or the Internet.
“We would love to do this for him and can you help us facilitate that,” she asked.
A generous Dinner told Dianne that he had booked in her brother for a cut, which he will do for free.
“It was a real pleasure for me to help out this family and give the man a cut,” Dinner said afterwards. “Other merchants found out and donated gifts to him as well.”
The barber still wonders how the senior’s sister in Tillsonburg found out about his shop.
The senior, with a fashionable trim, was presented with some meat pies and other goodies by Restaurant on Sixth, after owner Jenny found out about his plight.
“I’m gonna do it for free,” Dinner told the family. “Merry Christmas.”