Second-View Thrift Shop Celebrates 2nd Anniversary
HOURS: Wednesday - Saturday 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM year-round
Second-View Thrift Shop opened in February of 2008 and is proud to be celebrating it's 2nd anniversary. Their mission is to provide young adults with learning disabilities, the opportunity to develop employment skills, while establishing a positive outreach to the Cape community.
Second-View, a retail enterprise, located at 451 Route 6A in East Sandwich (one mile west of the main campus), was the brainchild of Kerry Macurdy, Lead Vocational Specialist for the Riverview School GROW program. GROW is an acronym for Getting Ready for the Outside World. Second-View was designed to give GROW students an opportunity to develop marketable job skills in a supervised environment.
Students continue to accept donations of clothing, games, household items, china, accessories and furniture. Student families, staff and local residents have been very generous with donations. GROW students have diligently reconditioned items for resale, sorting and spot cleaning, then tagging and running the shop in an efficient and friendly manner.
We encourage parents and staff to bring gently used treasures to the shop. Many new spring items have recently been displayed for sale.
Lynn Moffa, the shop's manager, has been busy making attractive Easter baskets filled with numerous new items donated by friends of the Shop. We encourage retailers who may have over-stocked or unsold items to bring them to the shop, in support of the students' endeavors.
The Second-View recently started and "Early Bird Special", giving a 10% discount to those who shop between the hours of 10:00 am and 3:00 pm. Those are the hours that the students are there to help customers and can practice their customer service skills.
This summer we hope to offer beach related items for tourists who are headed to the local beaches, and are in need of an extra visor, flip flops or a towel.
Anyone wishing to make a donation of items, furnishings or cash to Second-View should contact Kerry Macurdy at (508) 737-3847 or kmacurdy@riverviewschool.org.
