YAP Professional Clothing Drive Nets 4,000 Pounds Of Clothes For CCS
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David Slone-dslone@timesuniononline.com
Young Adult Professionals held a two-week professional clothing drive for Combined Community Services Sept. 11-25. The organization collected about 4,000 pounds of ties, shirts, jackets, belts, skirts, pants and shoes. Wednesday, YAP delivered the bags of clothing to CCS, sorted the clothing and hung them up on hangars. “For two weeks we collected clothes at five public and six to seven private locations,” said Kevin Hamstra, YAP Steering Committee chair. The public drop-off locations included the Chamber of Commerce, Lake City Radio, CCS, SYM Financial Advisors and Wildman. The private locations included Lake City Bank, Zimmer, Biomet, Medtronic and Symmetry. Wildman also donated all the bags to collect the clothes in, Hamstra said. Bartel Printing Co. Inc. made all the flyers for the professional clothing drive. Steve Possell, CCS executive director, said the professional clothing drive goes well with CCS’s self-sufficiency program. While CCS has a clothes pantry, it doesn’t have a lot of business clothes for people to wear to more formal things like job interviews. The clothes collected by YAP will make a “huge” impact, he stated. “We never had an event before where we concentrated on professional clothing,” Possell noted. Young Adult Professionals has no official membership. It is affiliated with the Warsaw/Kosciusko County Chamber. It meets during a montly luncheon on the second Wednesday of every month, and location varies. For more information on YAP, visit its website at http://wkyap.com
