Family affair

Handing on the business of styling hair

MOSES LAKE — After 54 years of cutting and styling hair, Linda Benson decided it was time to hang up her shears, her smock and her clippers. “I got my license in 1969,” said Benson, 73. “I enjoyed working with people, making them look nice, and getting to know them and become their friend.” Benson, who owns Hair Affair at the corner of Alder Street and Fifth Avenue near downtown said she and her husband will take some time to travel and basically hand the business over to her granddaughter McKenzie Garza, though the actual management of the business will remain in the hands of Nancy Hull, who has worked with Benson for the last 20 years.