NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — At Dogtown Barber Lounge, everyone who sits in a chair has a story.

Chase Turner has heard them all, and right now, a lot of them are about the government shutdown.

"I have a client up in Clinton since he was in high school and joined the military. He's been in the Army National Guard, but he's a full-time guard, and so he just hasn't been getting paid through this," Turner said.

It's stories like that one that have him looking for ways to cut the financial stress his customers are facing.

"I grew up, and I was on that receiving end of, like, the turkey that the church gave you or the ham that the school gave you>butted<we decided, hey, we're gonna start raising funds to partner up with some food banks in the area so that we can just give them large amounts of

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