Thank you for the powerfully inspirational front-page article A Soft Place to Settle in the Monday Dispatch.
The Mocharski family is a true role model for empathy, compassion and generosity. With their own family of four children, they opened their door and their hearts to foster two children, unaccompanied minors, crossing the border for safety after their father was murdered, and now separated from their mother. The beautifully written article recounts all who helped make this a soft place to settle.
In the midst of daily alarming and frightening reports of ever-increasing violence in our streets and in the world, people like the Mocharskis, Kelly Porter, Jan Phillips and Chris and Amy Bradley, organizations like Love Without Lines, religious institutions like the Unitarian/Universalist Church remind us that it truly takes a village. We are fortunate to have a newspaper like the Dispatch that headlines stories of hope. Very needed!
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Spanky’s Legendary Consignment to close By Will Campbell, Columbian Assistant Metro Editor
Published: February 12, 2021, 6:03am
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7 Photos At left, sales associate Rachel Cummings helps a customer on Thursday at Spanky s. Owner Rachel Phillips bought the store 12 years ago, when it was on Main Street in downtown Vancouver. (Joshua Hart/The Columbian) Photo Gallery
Spanky’s Legendary Consignment is closing permanently next month because of pandemic-related revenue loss, ending a 39-year run for the used clothing store.
After hearing about the closure on Wednesday from the store’s Facebook page, many longtime customers have come into the store, at 13503 S.E. Mill Plain Blvd., to see it for the last time.
The board now has representation from all three Peninsula universities and Thomas Nelson Community College, the three primary Peninsula health care providers, and several regional organizations. Additionally, Dominion, Ferguson, and NASA are now represented on the board. The new perspectives and fresh energy will make the chamber a more vibrant force for long-term economic growth on the Peninsula and across the 757!