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Spiralz Salon - Helping Vernonia Look and Feel Better
By Scott Laird
to keep our own
money!”
added
Kim
Bernardi.
Bernardi, who got
her cosmetology
license; in 2006,
said she enjoys
working in Ver
nonia because she
gets to cut hair for
people she knows
and went to school
with at Vernonia
High School. Clap
shaw, who has four
young children and
was licensed in
Spiralz offers a number of services including haircuts for men and women, col 2000, works evenings and is the waxing specialist.
oring, perms, waxing, and even nostril Spiralz Salon is located about a block from Rock Creek which overflowed its
hair removal. There is a single tanning banks in December, rising to about two feet inside the Salon. “Monday is nor
bed available, which the ladies say stays mally our day off, so we weren’t there when it started flooding. Someone called
very busy, especially in winter and early and said we better get down there,” remembered Kent. “We moved out supplies
and furniture and whatever else we
spring.
could, but there really wasn’t a lot we
could do.”
Karin (pronounced Ka-rin) Kent
took over ownership of the Salon
“My boys helped a lot with the initial
from Gina Fabor in 2004. Kent
clean up,” said Kent. “They worked
moved to Vernonia in 1995 with
really hard.” Kent was able to actu
her young family and leased a chair
ally open for a while after the flood,
from Fabor, doing hair styling and
giving needed hair cuts in a disman
nails and basically running her own
tled building. “People were so sup
business. When she took over the
portive,” said Kent. “It was cold in
shop, she continued the same set
the building and unsightly, but they
up, leasing chairs to stylists who
didn’t mind.”
are their own business owners.
The women who
work at Spiralz Sa
lon do a great job
helping the people of
Vernonia look their
best.
Karin Kent,
Kim Bernardi and
Becky Clapshaw, the
young ladies who
man the chairs at
Spiralz enjoy their
work and even have
fun while doing it.
The salon has under
gone a recent make
over as well, as a result of the flooding this past December.
“We get to be our own boss and
make our own schedule,” said
Becky Clapshaw about the arrangement
the stylists have at Spiralz. “And we get
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Spiralz was shut down for a total of
five weeks while remodeling. -‘The
insurance adjuster was very impressed with the clean up job we did,” said Kent.
Kent, Bernardi and Clapshaw took the opportunity to make some changes and
redecorate, and the new look is great! “We got new sinks and shampoo chairs,”
said Kent. “We removed the old win
dow seat, moved the tanning bed to a
better spot, put in a new polished con
crete floor, and replaced the front door.
And of course we painted and added
new trim.’- The new look is warm,
comfortable and very attractive.
Kent’s grandfather helped with the re
model. “He really saved the day,” said
Kent. “My mom and my sons and Kim
really helped out too.”
“People were so glad when we finally
reopened,” said Clapshaw. “They were
really glad to see us.”
Spiralz received its makeover, maybe
cow it\y o u r turc? Spiralz Saloc is lo
cated at 712 Bridge Street, Vercocia.
New construction, r
porches, decks