Horizon Home, Paris’ long-term transitional housing shelter serving a number of counties, supplies an important service to the neighborhood. That service, largely, is reliant on funding from its thrift retailer, which opened in June.
The shop at the moment operates three days per week, Wednesday by Friday, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nevertheless, Shelly Braziel — govt director of the Lamar County Human Assets Council, the group that oversees the shelter’s operations — stated they’re hoping to develop the shop’s hours and days of operation sooner or later.
“The thrift retailer is crucial for the shelter,” Braziel stated. “A hundred percent of the cash raised by the shop goes to funding for the shelter. The shelter doesn’t obtain any state or federal funding, so each greenback raised goes to offering a spot to remain for the folks at Horizon Home.”
The thrift retailer, positioned subsequent to Horizon Home at 400 4th St. Southwest, sells the whole lot from garments, to equipment, to family home equipment and extra Braziel stated.
“We don’t have giant items of furnishings, as a result of there simply isn’t house for that within the retailer, however absolutely anything else you could be on the lookout for, you possibly can in all probability discover it on the thrift retailer.”
The thrift retailer had beforehand operated when the shelter ran below the moniker of the New Hope Middle, however after the LCHRC took over and rebranded the shelter to Horizon Home, it was closed for reworking.
“We didn’t count on transforming to take almost that lengthy,” Braziel stated with a chuckle. “However we’re open now, and already we’ve had lots of people utilizing it and supporting us by it.”
Individuals and companies seeking to donate gadgets to the shop can carry them by the shelter’s administrative workplace on Mondays and Tuesdays.
“We’ll settle for gadgets any day of the week, however we’d want if folks carry them by on the times the shop isn’t open, simply because that makes issues so much simpler on us,” Braziel stated. “We’re grateful for any donations.”
The shop is open to the general public.
“Horizon Home performs such an important a part of our neighborhood, and we aren’t capable of do it with out the neighborhood’s help,” Braziel stated.
