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Real Estate® Each Of ce Independently Owned and Operated 780-690-3861 Bus: 780-939-1111 Call and ask for me personally for your free home evaluation MorinvilleNews.com IRP APPROVED AGENT February 15, 2017 | Page 1 Morinville barber retires after more than 50 years by Lucie Roy Barber Shop & Family Hair Care from 1988 until 1996. Morinville News Correspondent Both sitting in the barber shop chairs, Paul and his wife Clara reflected on his five-plus decades in the After more than 50 years in the business, local business, the joy of satisfying the customers and his barber Paul Henry Casavant is trading in his scissors plans for retirement. and clippers for garden shears. Casavant was issued his Certificate of Proficiency The 76-year-old Morinville man said Jan. 31 was in the barber trade in November of 1965 from the his last shift at Paul’s Barber Shop located at 10404- National Barber School in Edmonton, which is closed 101 Avenue where he has owned and operated his now. He then started barbering in Edmonton with home business since 1996. Casavant reflected that Dieters Hair Stylist and worked there for four years. it is strange thinking it will be all over. He will miss It is after that, he and his twin brother purchased everyone. A lot of these guys have grown up and the confectionery and barber shop on Main Street in grown old with him. Morinville in 1966. “He is really going to miss it, winter time The building is still standing to this day, (CX especially,” his wife Clara said. “Not too much going Shooters/ Free Press) but no longer has the barber on outside in the winter time besides shovelling snow. pole outside the by the window of the store. But he will keep busy. He can’t sit still. He has to keep They were in that building until 1988 with Barber moving.” Ernie Comeau helping out for eight years. Casavant ran the same shop a couple of streets They then went across the street and started a over – down on Main Street at Paul’s Confectionery second shop. This was a barber shop and beauty and Barber Shop from 1966 to 1988. After that, he salon, and they had suntan beds, esthetician and started a barber shop and beauty salon named Paul’s exercise bed, and four hairdressers. Named Paul’s Please contact us at [email protected] Page 2 | February 15, 2017 MorinvilleNews.com Paul Henry and Clara Casavant sit in Paul’s Barber Shop Feb. 1. The shop served its last customer Jan. 31. - Lucie Roy Photos Freedom to Read Week Feb. 26 - Mar. 4 Celebrate the Freedom to Read free from censorship at the Morinville Community Library. See our story on Page 5 for details on activities planned Barber Shop & Family Hair Care they were there from 1988 to 1996, then decided to close it and create a home-business-type barber shop where locally. they have been to this day. Casavant reflected on the more than half century of haircuts, customers and memories his business brought him. He has seen lots of different hairstyles and did thousands of cuts in his career. “Not much has changed in barbering equipment when it comes to clippers and scissors, but styles have changed,” Casavant said, recalling when the kids requested the Caesar cut. It was short and had the flip in the front, and then there was the skateboard cut. He didn’t really know what it was and he tried and got it. From the style of the 60s to the anything goes hairstyle of today, Casavant saw it all in his 50 plus years. Casavant said it started out with the businessman’s haircut of the 50s. “All the haircuts were nice and neat, cut straight in the back over the ears – whatever, and Celebrate the Winter! when boys starting growing their hair long that was a big change,” he said. What made it special for Casavant was that he didn’t have customers per se – but instead friends, whom he happened to cut hair for. Casavant said he had a customer who lived in Rocky Mountain House. This guy would get on his plane, fly to Edmonton, and rent a car to get his hair cut, go back to Edmonton and fly back out. Do you have the sub-zero blues? Need something to do The last three to four years he lost many regulars because of age, during the cold, snowy months? seniors who have passed on. Those who moved from Morinville still came Join the library’s Winter Blues Program. back to town to get him to cut their hair. All ages welcome! Casavant said he has many long- time customers. The longest was Keith Reid of Namao who used to run Johnny’s Store. Reid was a customer at Read for 7 hours (Age 13 and up) and 5 Dieters where Casavant was cutting hair, then followed him to the Barber hours (12 and under) during the months Shop in Morinville. “He was my faithful customer from youth to his 70s and of January and February. (That’s less was there on his wedding day,” Casavant said. than 15 minutes per day!) and you could His customers ranged from very young to old, and several generations WIN one of iPad Mini 2’s ! of local families. Regular customers would be sure to bring their sons in to Plus other and supplementary prizes! have a haircut, and down the generations, the tradition would continue. “Lots of kids all had their first haircuts done at Paul’s Confectionery,” wife Clara said, going on to say it was all by word of mouth. They did not have to advertise as they couldn’t keep up as it was. When they had a new customer, they would ask how they heard about the shop. It was always so Cozy Corner Stories and so told them to come there. Casavant missed it already, no doubt about it, it’s hard to let go. But Thursday, February 16th & 23rd 10:30 am he is very grateful that people put their trust in him and let him serve this long, he appreciates it. Casavant was born in Quebec in 1940. The family left Quebec when he was two years of age and moved to Leoville, Saskatchewan. After four years, they moved to Joussard, a small town situated in Northern Alberta. His parents Eugene and Irene Casavant had a little log house and store Between the Covers Book Club there for 33 to 34 years. Paul said Denise was the oldest and he and his brother all lived in the back of the little store. Paul went to school in McLennan and to the College Notre-Dame of Falher. Eventually, Denise went to the convent Sisters of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgins in Morinville Community Library Edmonton and would later marry Tom Houle. Carla was born in Germany and the family came across to Canada Hours of Operation about 1942 when she was 13 months old. The family decided there was Monday-Thursday 10 am - 8 pm nothing for them in Germany after the war and came to Canada by train Friday 10 am - 6 pm from Halifax across the country to Onoway, where they had relatives that sponsored them. “I guess you came across when you had sponsors,” Clara Morinville CoSaturdaymmu n10it amy L - i4b pmrary said. Hours oSundayf Oper 12at ipmon - 4 pm Clara met Paul when one of his best friends, Ernie Proulx, was getting Closed Holidays married and they were all at a banquet hall in St Albert. Paul and Clara Monday - Thursday 10 am - 8 pm married in September of 1969 in Morinville, and their children went to school here. Friday 10 am - 6 pm Casavant looks forward to spending more time with his wife, children Saturday 10 am - 4 pm Celine, Maurice and Joanne and three grandchildren.