Bow Island women celebrating 50 years of hairdressing
Medicine Hat, AB – From feathered bangs, to mullets, to perms, Daria Krooshoop has seen it all over her 50 years as a hairdresser.
It was 1974, five years after graduating from hairdressing school, when she agreed to visit her Aunt in Bow Island, who had a salon.
“I told her, I’m just coming for a couple of months. I didn’t want to come permanently to Bow Island,” Krooshoop laughed. “And it’s been the best place in the whole world. And you know people pass through here, I don’t think they understand you live here. But you just have to experience”