Helping Hands Thrift Store Will Be Opening Soon
Author: mt43news staff reporter
MT43 News Staff Reporter
A place for Townsend residents to take their new and hardly used items has been missed this winter, as the adults’ store on Pine Street has been closed since July 17 of last year.
Helping Hands Thrift Store and the Store for Kids will be reunited at 122 Broadway, the former Jeannie Steele building, according to manager Sheila Heavirland, who had taken a quick two minutes to talk about how the move is progressing. “It is a dream come true for us who believe in recycling and reusing,” she said.
The huge amount of work sorting and moving mounds of clothes, toys, housewares, and finally dismantling and rebuilding shelving is being accomplished by around 15 volunteers, plus several others with pickups stepping in to move from one location to the other. The other location was 323 Broadway. Her crew finished moving out of the old building on Friday.
The store will feature a soft opening on Tuesday, March 17. New store manager Susan Bohlken will supervise the 5,000 square foot facility, which will have separate rooms for men’s clothing and a toy room for children to play while parents shop. Heavirland pointed out that they will take no furniture but would like tools and sports equipment for their “man cave”.
The store could use more men’s clothing and childrens’ sizes 6 months to 3T in both boys’ and girls’ clothing.
Helping Hands Thrift Store board members, in addition to Sheila, include her husband, LaVerne, Sarah Holland, Alea Coker, and Dee Gannon. Jackie Kynett and Susan Bohlken are new volunteers on the board.
When the store opens on March 17, the hours will be 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday.
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Image 1 Caption: Helping Hands board members Sheila Heavirland, Sarah Holland and Susan Bohlken are working along with other volunteers to open Helping Hands for business March 17.
Nancy Marks, MT43 News Photographer
