Community Treasures Thrift Shop held a soft reopening last night amid members of the Galesburg Community Foundation, District 205 staff and customers looking to shop.
The reopening was in a way a celebration of vocational students at Galesburg High School.
Community Treasures manager Tiffany Anderson tells WGIL about 25 students aided in a bulk of the work.
“The interior design class helped redesign five areas of the shop, the building and trades class re-did our counter-top, the culinary occupation class did our food and drinks for (last night’s event,) and the event planning class did our invites,” Anderson says. “They treated me like a client, did interviews and had budgets to work with and things like that. They really just knocked it out of the park.”
Community Treasures runs on volunteer support and is owned and operated by the Galesburg Community Foundation.
“100 percent of our sales go back to the foundation and then is used throughout the community for other non profits and scholarship opportunities,” Anderson says.
Anderson says she is “in love” with the new shop look. She says it turned out better than she could have dreamt.
