2009 Multimedia Workshop                 "A Weekend in Murphysboro"
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Thrift Store

Video and Photos by Devin Miller

Gary and Cherie Green opened the Supported People In Need (S.P.I.N.) thrift store three years ago at 1501 Shoemaker Drive.

The couple is taking profits from the sales of second hand items and investing the money back into the building, a dilapidated former nursing home. They hope to open what would be Murphysboro only homeless shelter in the near future. “God opened doors so we could do this,” Cherie said. “We talked about it and looked in the community and then boom … the door opened and we got this place.”

Gary, who works full-time for the Murphysboro School District in the maintenance department, spends much of his free time volunteering at the thrift store. “There’s no glory or anything in this, or glamorous. It’s work and some of the time it gets to be hard work,” Gary said.

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One Response to “Thrift Store”

  1. Dorothy Berry says:
    December 30, 2009 at 7:02 pm

    I am touched by the work that is being done in Murphuboro. I have been there and there is a great need for this community service. I would be great if S.P.I.N. was established in some of the other small communities in the southern Illinois area. Thank to Gary and Cherie Green for their relentless work. And thank to ICCS for their support. God bless you.

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