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Local Barber Profiled in The Wall Street Journal
Anthony Barton easily could have gone down a wrong path with his life. Instead he cuts hair and helps others in White Plains and Greenburgh.
White Plains barbershop owner Anthony Barton grew up with drug addicted parents and spent time in prison for robbery. But now the barber helps train future barbers at the Theodore D. Young Community Center in Greenburgh, completing a remarkable turnaround for someone who could have easily stayed on a destructive path.
Barton’s story is profiled in The Wall Street Journal this week, where he talks about helping others find work and meaning in their lives.
A couple of days a week, Barton runs a barber training program at the community center, which counts Greenburgh’s Town Supervisor Paul Feiner and Community Resources Commission Bill Carter among its clients.
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“Mario Cuomo had a whole bunch of programs in prison,” Barton told writer Ralph Gardner Jr. “I was able to benefit from the barber program. Which leads me here 31 years later.”
Click here to read the full story on The Wall Street Journal website.
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Photo: Theodore D. Young Community Center in Greenburgh.
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