(St. Andrew's United Church)
219 Church Rd., Spruce Grove, Alberta T7X 2K3 780-962-9703
The shop is located at the north west corner of Main Street and Church Road.From Highway 16A: Turn North on King Street, left on Jesperson Avenue (City Hall), then left on Main Street. Church road will be the first road on your right. Map
HoursMonday to Wednesday: 10:00 A.M. to 5:30 P.M. Thursday: 10:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M. Friday:10:00 A.M. to 5:30 P.M. Saturday: 10:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M. Sunday: CLOSED Statutory Holidays and long week ends: CLOSED Spring and Fall Changeover: (4 days Friday to Tuesday after the bag sales in March and September.): CLOSED FOR FLOOR MAINTENANCE |
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Quality used clothing and housewares for sale at affordable prices.
Donations accepted during business hours at the back door.
Please bring donations inside through the North facing double doors during regular hours of operation. Our development agreement with the city requires fencing with the gates to be closed and locked outside of regular hours of operation. Please do not leave items outside of the fence as that is city property and you could be prosecuted under the city anti dumping bylaw.
Basically anything the government does not want you to be selling at a garage sale.
Mattresses and box springs (Public Health regulations), Sofas (No room!), microwave ovens (We have no means of safety testing them.), TV's (We've just had too much junk!), Large furniture items (Require the manager's approval), and hazardous materials e.g. white gas. The recycling centre across from the bottle depot on Diamond avenue will take this stuff.
The Thrift Shop made some $75,000 dollars in charitable donations in 2008, $100,000.00 in 2009 and has also paid off the mortgage on the addition.
Lists of donations made:
Referrals from churches, FCSS, Victim Services, Neighbourlink, Westview Hospital, Mental Health, Pioneer Museums (Spruce Grove and Stony Plain.), Multicultural Centre, HOSEA, Bissell, Mustard Seed, Mexico,Guatemala, Cuba, African Countries, and anyone expressing need.
Paid staff includes a paid manager, a full time helper, two part time people, and a contracted janitor.
We have up to 100 dedicated volunteers who have fun sorting and pricing clothes, housewares, etc, as well as anything else that needs doing. We could really use more, especially cashiers.
The Roles and Responsibilities document that was submitted as information to the St. Andrew's United Church February 8, 2009 Annual Meeting is here.(106kb pdf file) This file is a copy of pages 21 to 23 of the Annual Report and is a work still in progress.
Thank you for your support.
Have you ever been to a mortgage burning? The church mortgage was paid by the Thrift Shop with the final payment made by the end of December 2006. Yahoo!
With humble beginnings as a U.C.W. rummage sale more then twenty five years ago the shop has undergone three major expansions as well as turning into a major outreach project supporting local and international charities.
Thrift Shop Donations for 2000-2005 total ed $413,000.00 and went to kids invent toys, Capital City Leaders of Tomorrow, W.I.N. Program, Parkland Head Injury Program, Light Up Your Life, Spruce Grove Specialized Transit Service, Parkland Turning Points Society, Wee Care, Neighbourlink Parkland, Postpartum Depression Support Group, and the St. Andrew's United church Mortgage.
The need for expanded facilities and control over unwanted junk reached crisis proportions in 2004.
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Monday morning in 2003. We never planned on running a free dump service!The neighbours were complaining. |
The overloaded sorting area in 2003 |
The Thrift Shop had bought the lot next door some years ago and undertook a very ambitious expansion project. A great deal of volunteer work had to be done starting with city development permits and input from the Church Board, Presbytery, and Congregational approval of the budget.
Rockliff Pierzchajlo architects were hired to do the plans and we were fortunate to get Kalen Project Management to manage building construction. Quite a bit of volunteer sweat equity also went into construction of the addition which opened in March, 2005.
The new expansion doubled the retail space, is handicapped accessible, includes larger sorting areas, an office, and a deep basement with a freight elevator.
Some pictures of the shop after the latest expansion are below. At this time (April, 2007) the shop has a mortgage of just under $300,000.00 and the plan is to use money formerly used for the Church Mortgage to pay this down.
Exterior landscaping has been completed and the mortgage has been paid off.Many thanks to all of the volunteers.
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The original entrance has been sealed off |
View from Church Road and Main Street |
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The new addition with the entrance in the shade. |
The north side "Donation Door". |
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The clothing area. |
The Bridal Shop. |
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Part of the book area. |
The checkout counter and miscellaneous area. |