MOUNT PLEASANT — Longtime Racine-area barber Paul Minneti is preparing to retire after nearly six decades of cutting hair in the community.

For Minneti, being a barber was a vocation that made itself known to him early in his life.

Longtime Racine area barber reflects on career ahead of retirement

"In about eighth grade, the priest came into class and said, 'Okay, men, we're gonna pray about our vocation,'" Minneti said. "I took it to earnest and literally prayed about it."

He said he got his hair cut within a short time, and his own barber recommended the job.

"And he said, 'Minneti, you gotta do this,'" Minneti said. "And that'd be God, so I went back to school and raised my hand and said, 'Father, I'm gonna be a barber.' Prayers were answered."

He got out of high school in June 19

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