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Remembering Barb Harrigan (1942 – 2020)

Ayman Eldesouky June 30, 2021

Barb Harrigan was one of the first customers to enter WASL (Worth A Second Look) after we opened in 2006. She enjoyed garage sales and thrift stores and loved the treasure hunt involved. Barb was not a customer for long. She soon decided to join our efforts to recycle goods, provide items for all levels of income and to raise money for TWC. Barb was soon working as a volunteer, 4 to 5 days a week, sorting, pricing, and treasure hunting. These activities are what drew Barb in but over time she found a greater reason to stay and consequently became an important part of the WASL community for the next 15 years.

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WASL: A Community Thrift Store

Ayman Eldesouky December 1, 2020

Worth A Second Look is much more than a second hand retail store. It is a gathering place, a community for St. John’s Kitchen folk, volunteers, and customers.

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Worth a Second Look

Don Gingerich December 1, 2006

Worth a Second Look Furniture and Housewares grew out of a conversation with the Society of St. Vincent de Paul about transforming the old thrift store at 97 Victoria into a revitalized community venture.

Our goal was to initiate a community-wide effort to decrease the amount of furniture and housewares items that end up in landfills, while creating a welcoming, clean and interesting recycling centre.

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Newly Renovated Retail Space Set to Open at 97 Victoria Street North

Don Gingerich September 1, 2005

A great deal of planning has resulted in Worth A Second Look – Furniture and Housewares. It is a shared project between The Working Centre and the Society of St. Vincent de Paul (SSVP) that will evolve over many years. By cooperating together, we will better serve the local community through increased access to used goods. The St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Store has operated at 97 Victoria for the past 20 years. The new store will involve substantial changes including a major renovation, more open retail space, a new name and more support of the concept of recycling used goods.

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The Integrated Circle of Care is a fluid and collaborative approach followed by workers from different agencies weaving through St. John’s Kitchen. Within this approach, staff members from each agency are aware of their specific personal roles. However, the high level of collaboration between workers means that people can approach any worker, without knowing their agency association or specific role, and still receive support – either that worker will support the person directly, or they will introduce the person to another worker who can support the person more appropriately.

This approach makes relationships more natural and support more accessible. Workers from different agencies are easily approachable, meaning that people build relationships with multiple workers. Having relationships with different workers is important to a person’s support – it makes support from a trusted source easy to find, and means that people have a choice of worker to approach in any given situation.

In order to maintain a circle of care around a person, workers from different agencies ask for consent from the person for information to be shared between workers. Continuous communication between workers helps to ensure that people do not fall into gaps between services, and also that services are not duplicated.

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