[Vision2020] A day of both bad and good

[Darrell Keim]

Kudos for Gary Crabtree and the rest.  Including the fine Troy store
volunteers.

On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Bev Bafus <bevbafus at frontier.com> wrote:

>  Yesterday, I went out to Sojourners' Alliance Troy Food Bank and Thrift
> Store to meet the Boy Scouts, and receive the food they had gathered.
>
> On arriving at the Food Bank, I discovered that the building had been
> broken into, and the money was stolen from the Thift Store.  In addition,
> (and this makes me the maddest) several of the coats that had been donated
> to "Coats for Kids" had been stolen.
>
> Instead of spending a couple of hours sorting food, I spent time with the
> Latah Sheriff's Department, and spent time figuring out what else had been
> stolen.
>
> The staff and I felt very violated when we realized that a set of keys to
> the store had also been stolen.
>
> Luckily, the good far outweighed the bad yesterday.  One phone call to Gary
> Crabtree of the Lock Shop, and he was out, re-keyed our locks, and didn't
> charge a dime.
>
> The Boy Scouts brought in 1,000 pounds of food.
>
> One of the teachers at Troy High School brought nearly 100 pounds of food
> the school had gathered.
>
> Customers of the store that day, when told what had happened, and why we
> didn't have change, almost unanimously said to keep the change.
>
> And people have already offered to replace the coats.
>
> So whoever the moron is who decided that they needed to steal from the
> hungry and homeless - you are far outnumbered by good people in Latah
> County.
>
> Bev Bafus
>
>
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