A D V E R T I S E M E N T
A D V E R T I S E M E N T
Jim Hart / Sandy Post
Nathaniel Pemberton, who has worked at the Sandy Goodwill store for a year, arranges knick-knacks on a shelf inside the store. Pemberton is uncertain what the future holds and hasn’t decided if he wants to continue working for Goodwill, which has offered him the opportunity to relocate to another store.
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Officials of Goodwill Industries of the Columbia Willamette have decided to pull up stakes and leave Sandy.
Last fall, they were mulling their choices and at that time said they would do everything possible to stay in Sandy.
The store lease expires in May, and the company considered three options: renew the lease for its final three-year period, purchase the property or relocate to another building that meets the company’s standards.
The first two were unacceptable, according to Dale Emanuel, public relations representative for Goodwill in Portland. And the third — purchasing a property that meets company standards — hasn’t happened yet.
Goodwill employees will lock the doors for the final time at the close of business Tuesday, May 4, Emanuel said in a telephone interview Monday.
Unless a suitable building or an appropriate parcel of land can be found, Goodwill no longer will serve low-income families in Sandy and local residents with barriers to employment.
Emanuel has been with the charity 14 years, and she says it’s the first store that has been closed in that time.
“I can tell you,” she said, “that no one is happy to be leaving an area that we’ve served proudly since the summer of 1999.”
The current building is too small, she said, compared to other facilities in this regional area.
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