`Rags' resale retires.Byline: Joe Mosley The Register-Guard There may not be much inventory left by the end of the week, but customers can expect a piece of goodbye cake along with some hugs and tears. And maybe a gentle pitch to help out as the owner confronts an uncertain medical future. The Rags Connection, Kirk Olson's successor to Gayle Hutchinson's long-running Rags to Riches Rags To Riches is a TV show which was broadcast on NBC from 1987 to 1988. It stars Joseph Bologna as Nick Foley, a businessman with a playboy lifestyle. He wants to develop a familyman image so takes in a group of six orphaned girls, moving them into his mansion in Bel-Air, used clothing store, will empty what remains on its display racks and close its doors for good on Saturday. Olson, who bought the women's resale resale n. selling again, particularly at retail. In many states a "resale license" or "resale number" is required so that the state can monitor the collection of sales tax on retail sales. RESALE. institution from Hutchinson almost two years ago, is suffering from a neurological neurological, neurologic pertaining to or emanating from the nervous system or from neurology. neurological assessment evaluation of the health status of a patient with a nervous system disorder or dysfunction. condition that doctors have so far been unable to diagnose diagnose /di·ag·nose/ (di´ag-nos) to identify or recognize a disease. di·ag·nose v. 1. To distinguish or identify a disease by diagnosis. 2. . He fell while processing merchandise at the store on May 5 and broke a hip, and has been advised by doctors to give up the store and its on-your-feet, six-day workweek. "I am going to miss it terribly," Olson said Tuesday as he and Hutchinson worked with a steady stream of regular customers who picked through the store's few remaining displays. "When this (decision to close) first came down the pipeline, with the regular customers who came in, it was like a cry-fest," he said. The store, which has operated at 1212 Willamette St. since Olson took over in October 2005, got its start as Rags to Riches in 1976. Hutchinson opened the business in an old house on East 11th Avenue, between Mill and High Streets, with the concept of selling designer-label, lightly used clothing on consignment The delivery of goods to a carrier to be shipped to a designated person for sale. A Bailment of goods for sale. A consignment is an arrangement resulting from a contract in which one person, the consignor, either ships or entrusts goods to another, the . "It was one of the few resale shops here in town," Hutchinson said. "Now they're popping up everywhere." Olson was an early-on Rags to Riches customer, when the store also carried a small selection of men's apparel, and he became close friends with Hutchinson. He has worked more than 20 years in retail - including stints at Meier & Frank, the Bon Marche, the Disney Store and J. Jacobs - so when Hutchinson decided a couple years ago to sell the shop and start a second career in landscape design, he stepped in. Olson had been living with his parents and serving as their caregiver care·giv·er n. 1. An individual, such as a physician, nurse, or social worker, who assists in the identification, prevention, or treatment of an illness or disability. 2. - his mother suffers from the effects of polio polio: see poliomyelitis. and his father has Guillain-Barre Syndrome Guil·lain-Bar·ré syndrome n. See acute idiopathic polyneuritis. - and worked at the store long enough to learn its ropes before buying the business. Neither he nor Hutchinson chose to discuss the price Tuesday, but Olson described it as "a good chunk of change," while Hutchinson chided that "he still got a deal." Olson has been developing symptoms of a neurological disorder Noun 1. neurological disorder - a disorder of the nervous system nervous disorder, neurological disease disorder, upset - a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning; "the doctor prescribed some medicine for the disorder"; for the past five or six years - mostly traits common to multiple sclerosis multiple sclerosis (MS), chronic, slowly progressive autoimmune disease in which the body's immune system attacks the protective myelin sheaths that surround the nerve cells of the brain and spinal cord (a process called demyelination), resulting in damaged areas patients, such as tremors and unsteadiness. He and Hutchinson had even begun attending some multiple sclerosis support group meetings. But he didn't feel his condition would interfere with his operation of the shop. "I didn't think my health would get any worse, and if it did then we'd deal with it," he said. After he fell on May 5, the store closed until Hutchinson could make the necessary arrangements to reopen re·o·pen tr. & intr.v. re·o·pened, re·o·pen·ing, re·o·pens 1. To open or be opened again: Officials reopened the airport after the snow was cleared. Schools reopen in September. it for her friend. Olson, who does not have health insurance, racked up $95,000 in hospital and doctor bills as he was treated for the broken hip and neurologists This is a list of the most important neurologists, with their dates of birth and death and nationality.
He and Hutchinson looked into the possibility of selling the shop, but learned from a social worker that doing so would put Olson over the financial threshold for Medicaid assistance on his medical debts or Social Security disability payments for his future living expenses. So they've set about closing the shop and have opened a Kirk Olson Fund at local branches of US Bank for those who would like to help Olson with his mounting bills. The future may hold an online version of the Rags Connection, although Olson said those plans are "still in that dreaming stage." Hutchinson, who plans to get back to her landscape design business, said she'll be providing cake for a customer celebration on Friday and Saturday, before the resale shop goes vacant for good. "There are going to be so many gals who will be shocked when they come through and we're not here," she said. The future may hold an online version of the Rags Connection, although Olson said those plans are "still in that dreaming stage." |
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