You could call Paula Yeats, owner of Hair on Fifth, a Walkerite, through and through.
She grew up on a farm outside of Walker and still lives just a quarter mile from where she grew up. Â
Her dad was a hard-working logger who also ran a sawmill, so there was no need for Paula to find an outside job.
âYou were born with one!â she jokes.
After attending Walker-Hackensack School and graduating in 1980, her decision on a career was influenced by several relatives on her momâs side who are cosmetologists.
âIt just seemed like the thing to do,â she says, âso off I went to attend Wadena AVTI for cosmetology, with my best friend, Linda Rosenberry, who was taking a secretarial course.â