After 13 years, Sweet Home woman decides to part with dreadlock
August 5, 2020

Megan Stewart
CINDY HOVATER, still wearing her 13-year-old dreadlock, shops at a recent Farmers Market in Sweet Home.
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Sweet Home resident Cindy Hovater considers herself "one of those people who knows no strangers" – and this was all the more true when she flaunted her 13-year-old dreadlock around town.
Before she had a stylist snip off her signature 'do on July 3, Hovater said people she didn't even know would walk up and start a conversation.
Her unusual dreadlock, originally two different ones that eventually "married," includes more than just her own long, tinsel grey-blond hair.
Over the past decade, she's woven in strands from different family members, including her husband, Donale...
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