AMAZING GRACE THRIFT STORE MOVES A MILE INTO LARGER DIGS.Byline: Daily News LANCASTER - Grace Resource Center's year-old thrift store has moved into a new building with five times its previous space. Helping finance Grace Resource's charity work, the new center sells secondhand men's, women's and children's clothing, shoes, housewares house·wares pl.n. Cooking utensils, dishes, and other small articles used in a household, especially in the kitchen. , books, furniture and other items. ``We always have a unique mix of merchandise,'' said Georgia Lowder, the director, who leads a staff of eight. The new Grace Thrift Super Center is at 316 E. Ave. I, one mile east of the store's previous location. The new building provides room for 1,000 square feet of floor space for furniture, including dining room sets, dressers, beds, radios and refrigerators. The new building also has a library furnished with tables and chairs, with shelves of books for sale as well as a computer with Internet access See how to access the Internet. . ``Everything you see in the store has been donated. Nothing has been purchased,'' Lowder said. The thrift store's income helps support the nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. Grace Resource Center at 45134 Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling , which helps about 8,000 low-income Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley residents a month with hot meals, groceries, training classes and other services. The thrift store also has a service called Grace's Closet, in which families who lost their homes to fire or otherwise need help are provided with clothing and furnishings. ``For people in need who have nothing we give them clothing and we furnish their housing for free,'' Lowder said. ``This is the only thrift center in town that has this ministry with it.'' Grace Resource Center's telephone number is (661) 940-5272. The thrift store telephone number is (661) 726-9723. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1) Steve Baker Steve Baker (born September 8, 1978 in Pontefract, West Yorkshire) is an English professional footballer who is a defender and currently plays for Gateshead. Baker has played for a number of clubs including Middlesbrough, Huddersfield Town, Darlington, Hartlepool and of the Grace Resource Center stands in front of the new location for the center's Thrift Shop thrift shop n. A shop that sells used articles, especially clothing, as to benefit a charitable organization. . (2) Grace Resource Center's year-old thrift store has moved into a new building with five times its previous space. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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