Mahurangimatters November 2010 | 41
Op shopping in Matakana for 30 years
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7 8 5 4 9 1 3 2 6 Supporters of the Matakana Anglican Opportunity Shop celebrated 30 years of recycling other people’s throwaways into cash and donations last month. 1 9 6 2 3 5 8 7 4 Edna Wreaks and Anne Duffy. The Funds raised through the sale of post office located across the road. 3 2 4 7 6 8 1 5 9 goods are paid to the Anglican Vestry Initially, it was used as a church hall, Shop now has a second generation 2 4 9 8 7 3 6 1 5 for a portion of the upkeep of the meeting room, and for catechism worker – Elva Lewis, the daughter 8 3 1 6 5 4 7 9 2 church building and personnel, and and Sunday School. Some of long-term worker Mavis Smith. the remaining funds are donated to prominent names in the Ladies 6 5 7 9 1 2 4 3 8 The shop is always happy to receive various charities with an accent on Guild were Billie Wilson, Elva 9 7 2 3 4 6 5 8 1 local groups. In 1980, total donations Wright, Edna Wreaks, Rosemary recyclable clothing and goods such as tools and ceramics, but is unable 5 6 8 1 2 7 9 4 3 were $1500 and by 1990, this figure McFarlane and Sybil Buxton. to accept electrical goods due to had climbed to $3000. 4 1 3 5 8 9 2 6 7 But by the late 1970s, the ageing OSH regulations. Last year, the shop generated Ladies Guild disbanded. The enough money to donate $23,000. building was used as an arts and Beneficiaries included the crafts centre for a while, before Anglican Trust for Women and starting as an Op Shop in 1980. Children, Anglican City Mission, St John’s Ambulance, Westpac With Billie Wilson firmly in charge, Rescue Helicopter, the four local the shop first specialised in secondFrom fire brigades, Police Blue Light, hand clothing, but gradually expanded Tsunami Samoa, Neurological to include a range of goods. During Foundation, St Leonards Church the 1980s and 1990s, the name of (borer treatment), Fred Hollows Mim Mackisack was synonymous Foundation, NZ Foundation for the with the shop. She worked tirelessly Blind, Plunket, NZ Leprosy and the for its cause and her home was continually full of articles needing Matakana Playcentre. Based on per weekly empty for Housed in the former post office and washing, mending or repairing. 80 litre bin. Available in 80, telephone exchange, the Op Shop Other long term workers included 120 and 240 litre bin sizes building has had several uses since the Rosemary McFarlane, Elva Wright,
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Op Shop volunteers got together socially to mark the anniversary.
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