Pine Island Elementary: Reused, repurposed and soon to be recycled

Dear Warwick community,

Thank you very much for your support of the Warwick Hope Chest and Clothing Closet Clothing Bank over the last nine years.

What started as a response to the need for warm clothing after Hurricane Irene devastated local agriculture has grown with the support of the community, churches and organizations into a mainstay of help for not only Orange County but the surrounding counties.

Through the Clothing Closet Clothing Bank, we have given away more than a million dollars worth of clothing to men, women and children in need.

Through the Warwick Hope Chest thrift boutique, we have offered unbelievably low-priced clothing and home goods, including shoes, coats and prom dresses, to the entire community and helped save the environment through a pledge to reuse, repurpose and recycle.

We are the organization called on when a family loses everything in a fire, a battered wife is forced to leave with her children in the middle of the night, a young man needs a suit to apply for a job or a family takes in foster children who arrive with nothing but the clothes on their back.

It is because of your help, and that of dozens of volunteers who put in hundreds of hours, that we have been able to answer each of these calls for help.

We have been informed that the Warwick Valley Schools needs Pine Island Elementary back in service in order to open their schools this fall with necessary social distancing.

We have been asked to vacate the building by Aug. 1, including six rooms of inventory and three rooms for sorting and storage.

It is our plan to give away as much of our inventory as possible to those in greatest need.

It will be a difficult year for the poor, for many reasons and we are sorry to add another.

It is our profound hope to re-open in July of 2021. At that time, we will need donations and volunteers.

Thank you again. Through your generosity countless lives have been changed for the better.Sincerely,

Sharon Linnea Scott, Director

Warwick Hope Chest

Clothing Closet Clothing Bank