Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Another successful Odessa FBLA project completed. Alene Alexander, Executive Director of Embrace Washington, FBLA members Maddy Wagner, Grace Nelson, Maddie Scrupps, Yvette Davey, Caitlyn Schuh and Zane Hamper-Rosman, Megan Guinn, Director of Teen and Kid Closet and Robyn Nance of KXLY TV in Spokane.
"Thanks to generous supporters from Lincoln County and across the state, the 'Buy a Pair, Show You Care' underwear drive was a huge success," says Odessa High School Future Business Leaders of America adviser Terri King.
FBLA members delivered 1,231 pair of new children's underwear on a recent visit to Teen and Kid Closet in Spokane.
They also had the opportunity to tour the facility and meet co-founder and KXLY newscaster Robyn Nance, who described the founding of Teen and Kid Closet and how it is currently supported.
Children in foster care make two trips to the closet each year to fill shopping bags of clothes.
Volunteers that run Teen and Kid Closet work hard to make sure all clothes are fashionable and desirable to teens.
Nance describes them as, "Something you would loan to a friend; not your old hand-me downs."
When Pac Sun recently closed in the mall, all of their inventory was given to Teen and Kid Closet.
The facility on East Sprague is packed with items for all ages from birth to young adult.
Volunteers rely on donations and the generosity of others to provide for the children that come through the doors.
The underwear was collected through a variety of methods, including a Santa Breakfast fund-raiser, social media posts, which generated dozens of Amazon deliveries, and the generosity of the Wheatland Bank branches in Odessa, Wilbur and Davenport, which served as collection points.
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