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New Thrift store offers job skills for program residents
My Sister's Place aids homeless women
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Jessica Drexler, left, and Dawn Bedingfield, right, help Verna Courtney with her purchase Wednesday morning during the grand opening of My Sister's Place Resale Boutique. Proceeds from the boutique go back into the nonprofit women's homeless shelter.
For the past 17 years, My Sister’s Place in Gainesville has helped homeless women and children with shelter, meals, transportation needs, referrals and other services. Now the program has job training — and a store where they can work. Brandee Thomas, executive director of My Sister’s Place, cut the ribbon Wednesday for My Sister’s Resale Boutique, a new store located at 130 John Morrow Parkway in Washington Square.