Relay for Life held their annual Thrift for a Cure event on Saturday Nov. 15 holding a pop-up thrift store with donated clothes, decor, books and other miscellaneous items. All proceeds from the event were donated to the American Cancer Society.
Junior Hadley Doyle, one of the four Relay for Life chairs, helped in the months of preparation for the event.
“We started preparing for thrift I think towards the end of August, we started setting dates for when we were taking donations, and then we started taking donations at the beginning of October,” Doyle said.
Other Relay for Life members also helped run the event. Sophomore Zach Wieland worked as a cashier and also helped with set up and take down. As a cashier Wieland enjoyed talking to community members shopping at the store.
“I think it’s a lot of fun to interact with the people that come here and like, see how they’re doing, because everyone here is probably a part of community,” Wieland said
Doyle also enjoyed seeing the customers shop and seeing what items they chose to purchase.
“My favorite part is seeing all the cool stuff that we get and like what people will get to bring home,” Doyle said. “Because, like all we make all profit from this event, because we take donations. So it’s really cool to just see what people pick and like, what sells and what doesn’t.”
Senior Reagan Thate decided to come to the event after seeing it advertised on social media.
“I saw it on Instagram stories, and my mom wanted to go just to see if she could get some new things,” Thate said. “I just like all the Relay for Life stuff, so I enjoy going to support causes like that.”
Thate also thought the pricing at the event was reasonable and understandable for customers.
“I thought [prices] were reasonable.” Thate said, “I liked the idea of the stickers and the colors meaning a certain price. I thought that was a really good idea.”
The money raised from Thrift for a Cure will go to the total amount of money Relay for Life raises throughout the year. Doyle felt all the work was worth it as the proceeds will help cancer patients locally and nationwide.
“The money for this goes to the American Cancer Society, so it’ll go towards different organizations that they have,” Doyle said. “A lot of it goes towards Hope Lodge, which is housing for people during treatment, rides to treatment, food during treatment, a lot of that. And it goes to people in our area. The local Hope Lodge is downtown, so all our proceeds go directly towards them.”
