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Police warn about group seeking clothing donations
Flowery Branch chief says he would give to Gateway instead
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An NSPIRE Outreach donation bag hangs on the mailbox of a Lakeshore Heights home Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018. The Lawrenceville charity is back again trying to collect clothing donations as part of its HOPE campaign ostensibly to support homeless and domestic violence survivors. But the amount of work the charity does locally is unclear, and the group has been investigated by multiple state governments, including Georgia. - photo by Scott Rogers
The plastic bags are now orange instead of pink, but they’ve hung on doorknobs of residences across Hall County in recent weeks asking for the same donations as always: used clothing, kitchenware, electronics, small appliances, shoes, belts and purses. The goods are ostensibly used to support programs for the homeless and victims of domestic violence, but the presence of the orange bags has reignited hard feelings about the organization behind the collection. “I would not personally contribute anything to them,” Flowery Branch Police Chief David Spillers told The Times last week.