Thrift Shop Seeking Volunteers

Volunteers are needed for the Community Thrift Shop to work when the Thrift Shop is open Saturdays or to help sort clothing during the week. Volunteers for Saturday hours have been in short supply the last few months. Please volunteer for a couple of hours or on a regular weekly or monthly schedule. To volunteer, contact MaryAnne at maryanne.schouw@gmail.com or 301-845-4126.

The Community Thrift Shop has its fall and winter clothes ready and waiting for cooler weather. As you clean out summer clothes and bring out the fall and winter items, remember the Thrift Shop. Pack up summer clothes you don’t want and save to donate in the spring. Donate your unwanted fall and winter items now.

Children’s clothing is always needed at the Thrift Shop. Please donate your unwanted clothes and books to the Thrift Shop to benefit local families. Look for the name Glade Valley Thrift Shop on the green clothing drop boxes. Please be sure to drop donations inside of the green boxes. Clothes left outside the boxes are often damaged by rain and dirt.

In Walkersville, the green clothing drop boxes are located at the entrance to the St. Paul’s Parish Hall parking lot at 19 West Pennsylvania Ave. near Fulton Ave., and at the Walkersville Community Church, 207 Braeburn Drive. In Woodsboro, there is a clothing drop box located in the upper parking lot at Woodsboro Evangelical Lutheran Church, 101 S. Main St. Entrance to the upper parking lot is by way of Church alley.

The GVCS Community Thrift Shop is located in the basement of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Parish Hall at 19 West Pennsylvania Ave. near Fulton Ave. in Walkersville. The shop is open most Saturdays from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm. A bag of clothing is $2.00, coats $1.00 and shoes are free.

Thank you to the co-managers, volunteers MaryAnne Schouw and Mel Palmer. Thank You to St. Paul’s Lutheran Church for providing space in their Parish Hall for the Thrift Shop. Many thanks to all the volunteers who pick up clothes from the collection boxes, pick up bread on Saturdays, sort clothes and staff the Thrift Shop.