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Let’s Get Acquainted with Jeannette Elizabeth Davison Our Thrift Store Volunteer

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A cabbage patch in San Francisco in 1945 found a tiny little girl with 18 letters in her name.  That’s what her Grandmother told her. She was raised by her grandparents.

She has three children, Eric, Cassandra, and Desirae.

When you see her smiling face at the Senior Center, you can’t help but smile back.  What a pleasant volunteer in the Thrift Store.  She’s the one that has organized all those shelves after they were painted.  She looks forward to coming to the Senior Center every day and can find a bright spot there, no matter how dreary the day might be.  Jeannette thinks our Center is pretty cool.

When she was 32, she went back to college for two years for Early Childhood Development and then taught in pre-school.

Her biggest obstacle was self-doubt and has found that she can face them with a smile along with walking with her Lord.

Wisdom from Jeannette is “be helpful, peace in your being and a joy in your heart”.

 

Let’s Get Acquainted with Our New Store Manager Debbie Schmelzer

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Debbie was born in Portland in 1960.

She’s been married for almost 40 years and has a daughter,

Stacey, who is 35, married, and has three children of her own.  They range in age from 5, 3 and 1.  She lives in Washington.  Her son, Cooper is 30 and recently moved to Beaverton.

Her career outside the home spanned a few fields.  Seven years saw her in YMCA membership, then her family moved to Alaska where she did demos in stores.  They came back to Oregon and she worked at Cascade Pharmacy for 13 years in the Gift Shop.  When that was sold, she did home care for several years.  Now she is with us.

She recalls driving on the Alcan Highway and being hit by drunk Alaskan natives and being pulled out of the ditch by truckers they had met having breakfast with a short time earlier.

Debbie says her biggest obstacle is her shyness.  That’s hard to believe because she is so friendly and outgoing.

Biggest accomplishment?  Well, that’s got to be her children.

Her word of wisdom are – “don’t sweat the small stuff”

She looks forward to having good health and spending time with her grand kids.

Welcome Debbie to our Thrift Store!

Thrift Store

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Our Thrift Store has been cleaned and the shelves painted.  Things are organized now.

Here are some of the pictures of what we did.