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Edna Bondesen is selling her Royal Oak Barber Shop that she’s owned for 22 years so she can retire and spend more time bringing Abby, her certified therapy dog, around to care homes and hospitals.
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Burnaby’s political, legal and business elite could soon be looking a little shaggier. Edna Bondesen is retiring. Bondesen has owned the Royal Oak Barber Shop for 22 years. She counts mayors, city councillors, judges, lawyers and business tycoons amongst her loyal customers. But she says it’s time to sell her business and hang up her scissors so she can work on her golf game and spend more time taking her certified therapy dog, Abby, around to care
homes and hospitals. brought her south. Her landlord The shop was already a was redeveloping and she needed a neighbourhood institution when new place to ply her trade. Charlton Bondesen acquired it. In fact, told her his father’s old shop was for she’s the fifth sale. owner since Orville Bondesen said Charlton started it she inherited 88 years ago after many of the shop’s Edna Bondesen Men are creatures of habit. he stepped off the customers—that’s old Interurban and They’re easy to please, just the way men there’s no fuss. decided Royal Oak are. at Kingsway was the “Men are perfect spot to cut hair. creatures of habit,” said Bondesen. Bondesen was cutting hair in “They’re easy to please, there’s no North Burnaby when a chance fuss.” encounter with Charlton’s son Over the years she’s cut hair for
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generations of customers. Some of them have invited her to their weddings. She’s weathered style trends; the perm years were especially tough, said Bondesen. And she’s particularly proud to be an equal-opportunity barber; a big-money lawyer gets the same treatment in her shop as a unionized working man. “Men identify with the experience of going to a barber shop,” said Bondesen.
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Burnaby RCMP are investigating after the body of a man was found in a waterfilled ditch in the Big Bend area of South Burnaby Wednesday morning. Police received a report at about 9:30 a.m. The body of a man, believed to be in his early 40s, was found in the 7600-block of Willard Street, near 14th Avenue, said Burnaby RCMP Staff Sgt. Major John Buis. “The cause of death is undetermined at this time.” RCMP will assist the coroner’s office in its investigation, Buis said. If it’s determined it was a homicide, police will investigate but not if the death is deemed to be from natural causes. As of Wednesday afternoon, police were in the early stages of the investigation and the man’s identity had not yet been confirmed. Anyone with information on the incident is asked to call Burnaby RCMP’s serious crimes unit at 604-294-7922.