CollingwoodToday welcomes letters to the editor at [email protected] or via the website. Please include your full name, daytime phone number and address (for verification of authorship, not publication). The following letter was sent in response to the permanent closure of the Salvation Army thrift store in Collingwood.
I have been a longtime shopper at the thrift shop in Collingwood.
My mother was in a nursing home and I used to buy her clothes there. She could no longer deal with buttons or zippers and the ladies who worked there would point out skirts with elastic waists when I came in. I couldn't find them elsewhere. I was grateful.
After my mother passed, I shopped for ladies in the long-term home where I volunteered. They had very little. The ladies who worked in the store were a delight. I also donated whenever I could.
I am very upset to hear about its closing. Shame on them to take away a small pleasure for people in need.
Frances Winters
Wasaga Beach, Ont.
