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Fight for used clothing market GREGG CHAMBERLAIN gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca that almost resulted in some competition between the Rockland Help Centre and a for-profit Ottawa outfit.
613 850-5744 LA MAISON DU STORE/BLINDS par Danny & Sandra Décor Blinds He noted that last year the thrift shop brought in $25,000 to the Help Centre budget and that 97 per cent of that rev- enue went straight towards helping with food bank stock purchases. The remaining three per cent went to administration costs and that amounts to covering the monthly phone bill and providing basic office sup- plies like paper for the photocopier. collected and ships it in bulk loads for sale to Third World countries. The Rockland Help Centre board and staff fear that the company’s bins now threaten the supply of used clothing that comes into the centre’s own single drop-off site at La Friperie, the thrift store and food bank that the Help Centre operates on Chamberland Street. Conrad Montcalm, pictured by one of the OCD bins, reported that the money raised from clothing sales at the thrift store repre- sent more than a third of the Help Centre’s operating budget, used to help keep the food bank shelves stocked. “We’ve noticed a definite impact,” Mont- calm said.
“We are a lean and mean operation,” Montcalm said, adding that the Rockland Help Centre is a bonded charity with the United Way. The Help Centre has begun contacting lo- cal merchants who have OCD deposit bins on their properties, asking them for remov- al of the bins. Several have called the com- pany and asked to have the bins removed. A spokesman for OCD told the Vision during a phone interview Tuesday that the company will comply with any requests for removal of its bins. But he also complained that the company is not getting a fair hear- ing. “We never meant any harm,” he said. “If they (Help Centre) had asked us to remove the bins, we would have done so.” He added that the company also works with the United Way and is willing to either share used clothing drop-offs or provide a donation to the Help Centre. The company decides each month through voting on its website, at www. communityclothingdonations.com, which charities to support from its operations.
Several months ago representatives for Ottawa Clothing Donations (OCD) came into town and approached several local businesses for permission to set up the company’s collection bins for used clothing. The Ottawa-based company sorts clothing
Rockland | Thrift is becoming the watch- word for many people in these lean and mean times. There’s a market for almost anything now, even used clothing and
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