Goodwill has a new employer of the year! This could be you! So head over to our Facebook page to learn more about our featured Goodwill star and additional job training and employment opportunities!
Brand New South-End Location!
Our newly opened South-End location is one of the largest in the region! The new facility is clean, bright, and convenient; located across from South High on Maryland Ave. Our friendly staff works hard to operate our drive-thru donation center and processing area. We carry both new goods and donations. Selections of handmade soaps, new mattresses, bed frames, sunglasses, kitchen and bath mats, books, colorized clothing, and wares. While the new showcases hold unique jewelry alongside vintage items like purses and model cars!
Shopping Online
Looking for new clothes or shoes? How about unique or vintage items? Check out our Shop Online feature! With daily updates of products on the market, you can browse our extensive sales of glassware, clothes, jewelry, bags, books, games, and technology accessories! Not to mention our new additions of vintage accessories! With pictures, prices, and descriptions included, shopping from the comfort of a computer has never been easier! Make sure to check out our Shop Online section at the top bar of our home page!
Business Services Employee Spotlight- Debi Logeston!
Welcome back! Western Maryland has some beautiful sights to take in along the drive between Hagerstown and Cumberland. The rolling mountains offer great vistas with scenery that changes with the seasons. If you have ever stopped at the Visitor’s Center at the top of Sideling Hill, you know what a geological gem it is to take in. The sight of the rock striations are breathtaking. If you enter the Visitor’s Center, you will find an abundance of interesting information and you will likely get a chance to be greeted by the smiling face that is the inspiration for this week’s blog entry, Debi Logeston!
As a long time sufferer of back pain, Debi connected with Horizon Goodwill and found comfort in an organization that understands that barriers to employment are not the end of the road, but rather a challenge that can be overcome. Beyond just helping to connect with a job, Debi realized that Goodwill could help her realize her full potential. She would soon find that life with a disability and financial stability were not mutually exclusive.
Debi began work on the Sideling Hill project in 2006. In 2010 she was promoted to Custodial Supervisor and then in 2013 Debi became the Site Manager. She now manages a full staff that is responsible for the total facility management of both the East and West bound centers. She not only has to manage her staff, but is also in charge of working with the State to procure all services needed to keep both sites operational and visitors happy. Both the SHA customer and I agree that she does an outstanding job!
“Through my life I have suffered from back pain and in 2014 I was told I had severe anterolisthesis and bilateral spondylolysis and told what my limitation should be. Not that that slowed me down any, but working for Goodwill gave me the opportunity to continue work no matter what limitation I had.”
Horizon Goodwill does so much to help so many. And there are so many more people out there for us to help! Sometimes it just takes that first step before you are able realize your full potential. This is why we are here. This is what Horizon Goodwill is all about. Removing barriers, creating opportunities.
Thanks for reading! Please feel free to contact me with questions or comments regarding the blog or what our Business Services division can do for you! bmarks@goodwill-hgi.org
I’m Glad You Asked! – “Achievement”
What is “achievement”? I’m glad you asked! Achievement is defined as “a thing done successfully, typically by effort, courage or skill”. I love, love, love this definition!
I was reminded of it this afternoon, when I got an email from a Horizon Goodwill vocational case manager, Misty Cubbage, celebrating the achievement of one of her clients, Zackary Taylor (center): “I would like to congratulate Zackary Taylor on obtaining his Maryland High School diploma! Zackary recently completed the Adult Education Program through Allegany College of Maryland (ACM). His classes were here at our Goodwill’s Career Readiness Campus in Cumberland where he was enrolled in the job training program through Goodwill! He is our first graduate from our partnership with ACM. We are very excited to watch him walk across the stage on June 14 at the graduation ceremony!”
Last summer, ACM started offering GED and Adult Basic Education classes at our Goodwill Career Readiness Campus in Cumberland, MD. The ACM Team wanted their classes to reach more people and we wanted we wanted more of our clients to continue their education. Since September 2016, thirteen (13) people have enrolled in classes, and almost half of those students also enrolled with Goodwill in our paid work training program. Now, individuals who want to get their GED/diploma and need to find a job or earn a paycheck, can come to one place and do both – go to class in the morning, then walk across the campus and go to work after lunch.
To achieve anything, you must put forth the effort, enlist your courage, dust off your thinking cap and keep at it. That’s what Zackary did; what he is continuing to do. “I do not want my little girl to grow up thinking it is okay to do things the way I did them. I didn’t do this just for me. I did this for my family and friends who believed in me. I wanted to prove them right.”
Congratulations again Zackary! Goodwill is honored to be a part of your journey.
For more information, feel free to contact me at cfleming@goodwill-hgi.org. And, as always, please check us out on Facebook and Twitter.
South End Store: Vintage Red and yellow floral TV stand!
At our South End Location we have a vintage red and yellow floral TV stand with side shelves and cabinet! It’s priced at $35!