Kindersley

Yesterday I took a road trip with my boss to the town of Kindersley, 2 hours out of Saskatoon for some meetings with a variety of social aid agencies serving the area. We had three spread out meetings which meant that with travel, it was a 14 hour day but the meetings were good and I learned some stuff and met some great people.

One of the highlights of the trip was seeing the Salvation Army Thrift Store in Kindersley. I am not a big fan of thrift stores in general although Wendy buys a lot of clothes at Value Village for Mark but this one was different. While many are over glorified junk yards, this one was actually a place that one would want to shop at and had a small army of volunteers making sure appliances, televisions, electronics, and other things were good quality, getting tested or fixed, and clean before it was sold. If there was the perfect business model for running something like that, I think I saw it yesterday.

It was a long day but I was encouraged to see people coming together in a community to make sure that people are taken care of.