BARGAINS BENEFIT SHOPPERS, SENIORS.Byline: Cecilia Chan Staff Writer A used coffeemaker cof·fee·mak·er also coffee maker n. An apparatus used to brew coffee. , a gently worn pair of size 8 high heels high heels high npl → talons hauts, hauts talons high heels high npl → hochhackige Schuhe pl and a second-hand blue tank top will help pay for hot meals, day care and support programs for the area's elderly. For 10 years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time Bargain Boutique and Thrift Shop thrift shop n. A shop that sells used articles, especially clothing, as to benefit a charitable organization. at 80 E. Hillcrest Drive has been a major fund-raising arm for Senior Concerns, a nonprofit agency. ``The thrift shop is indeed the backbone of our organization,'' Executive Director Lynn Engelbert said. ``It helps us to keep helping people who don't have funds to pay for services.'' On Friday, Senior Concerns held an official reopening ceremony of the store, which has undergone an expansion and renovation. The store rents space in the building with other tenants,including an office of the Social Security Administration. Engelbert said the shop generates nearly $100,000 toward the agency's budget, which was $850,000 for fiscal 2000. The 26-year-old agency provides numerous services such as a meals on wheels n. 1. A program that delivers hot meals to persons, such as the elderly or disabled, who are confined to their homes and unable to cook for themselves; also, the meals thus delivered. Such programs are usually conducted by governmental or charitable organizations. program and an Alzheimer's day care resource center. Senior Concerns is in the middle of a $1.4 million fund-raising campaign Noun 1. fund-raising campaign - a campaign to raise money for some cause fund-raising drive, fund-raising effort crusade, campaign, cause, drive, effort, movement - a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end; "he supported to expand the Fitzgerald Center on Hodencamp Road. Groundbreaking is expected in August. Doris Medrano, 34, shops at the thrift store twice a week. The boutique side holds new clothes, some with designer labels, donated by department stores This is a list of department stores. In the case of department store groups the location of the flagship store is given. This list does not include large specialist stores, which sometimes resemble department stores. . ``I find lot of things for my girls and me,'' Medrano said as she browsed through the racks with a pile of clothing draped drape v. draped, drap·ing, drapes v.tr. 1. To cover, dress, or hang with or as if with cloth in loose folds: draped the coffin with a flag; a robe that draped her figure. over her arm. ``I get a lot of things cheap.'' A man's Ralph Lauren Ralph Lauren (born Ralph Lifschitz on October 14, 1939) is an American fashion designer and business executive. Life Ralph J. Lauren was born in the New York City borough of The Bronx to Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants Fraydl (Kotlar) and Frank Lifshitz, a house white dress shirt could be had for $10, a stack of five glass dessert plates for $6.50 and a stuffed Winnie the Pooh bear for $3. Clothing is the largest seller at the store, followed by housewares house·wares pl.n. Cooking utensils, dishes, and other small articles used in a household, especially in the kitchen. . In a back room equipped with a kitchen sink, volunteers Myra Mead and Marge Papanier sorted through a neatly stacked pile of clothes to price and hang on the racks. ``I have a skirt set - $10? Too high?'' Mead asked. ``Eight dollars,'' Papanier replied. Mead, a volunteer for about six years, explained they price their items using their own knowledge, conferring with each other and checking out what other thrift stores in the area charge for their goods. ``We are really fussy with what we put out,'' eight-year volunteer Papanier said with pride. ``We don't put anything out that is stained, broken or chipped.'' Some 43 volunteers, mostly retirees, under the coordination of Almeda Babcock help keep the shop open six days a week. They clean and press the clothes and wash and clean donated items. ``I get the satisfaction of working in a nice place that is going to benefit seniors,'' said Babcock, a 10-year volunteer. ``And we make a lot of friends here.'' The merchandise - including costume jewelry and a three-piece ceramic canister set - are donated by residents who get a tax write-off. ``We have people from all walks of life come in here,'' said Joy Hagestad, a Senior Concerns board member and the shop manager. ``We have young people, teen-agers, young mothers with little children and middle-age people out shopping for the day.'' During the renovation, the 1,500-square-foot thrift shop operated out of a modular building in the back parking lot. Today, the store has what volunteers refer to jokingly a ``Martha Stewart atmosphere'' - airy and cheerful. ``Our focus is to offer a thrift shop without the thrift shop environment,'' Engelbert said. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Volunteer Marge Papanier prepares donated clothes for sale at the Bargain Boutique and Thrift Shop in Thousand Oaks. Evan Yee/Staff Photographer |
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