Utah barbershop collects multiple shipping containers of donations to send to Tonga
As a center for all things good looks as well as conversation, it's only natural that the Fresh Fade Away Barber Shop in Pleasant Grove would be a place for those to talk about a disaster a world away.He was following his lifelong dream, and it became a reality when he opened his shop.But on the day a tsunami hit Tonga almost two weeks ago, he got had a phone conversation that made his heart drop.“When I called him, he was in the middle of, like, evacuating his whole family," he said.
Through the worry and the fear, he hatched an idea: to use the barbershop as a way to gather things to send over. “It's kind of mind-blowing to see how much we've actually gotten from the community,” said Tanner Orton, another barber at the shop."It's been awesome. It's been really cool ... to be a part of it.”The goal at first was to fill a large 84" x 48" x 48” shipping crate with supplies, which was a very lofty goal.
CAN YOU BELIVE THIS? All these donations are thanks to the community that rallied around the Fresh Fade Away Barbershop in Pleasant grove. The crates you see here are already on their way to the island nation of Tonga. Hear their incredible story only on @fox13 at 9! pic.twitter.com/EkdiOydmbU There was one thing that Latu said absolutely had to be in the crates, and that was Irish Spring soap.
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