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“We want to make people aware of information that many people in these communities don’t have access to,” he said.

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Alvin Owens, shop owner, said Health and Wealth Days are a way to introduce men to others in the community who have started their own businesses with executives in other professions. Recently David Arrington, a Kenosha Unified Science teacher, spoke as well as Jerry Gulley, Kenosha County’s board of directors, whose background is in healthcare and technology. His brother, Arlan Owens, a nurse, also did blood pressure and health tests.

“We want to have this discussion and be like a barber shop,” he said.

The store is also home to Education Youth Development Outreach, which sponsors the popular college tour, which is suspended again this year due to the pandemic. Owens said the plan is to resume the tour next spring.

The Legacy Lab recently opened, a resource center where students can do homework, fill out college applications, and community adults can work on job searches or update résumés. The collective also received a pair of Chromebooks and expect to add a few more, he said.

Owens said he believes hairdressing is only one aspect of his community existence business.