Leo Avila loads boxes onto a cart at the Assistance League of Ventura County’s Bargain Box Thrift Shop in Ventura on Friday morning. After being on East Main Street for 26 years, the league is moving its thrift shop to a building it purchased at 3351 Telegraph Road.
The thrift shop run by the Assistance League of Ventura County, which has made its home in midtown Ventura for 26 years, is moving to a new location.
Moving vans pulled up to the Bargain Box Thrift Shop at 1975 E. Main St. on Friday and began moving merchandise. The items will eventually end up at 3351 Telegraph Road in Ventura, a building the Assistance League has purchased, according to Rhonda Callahan, who does public relations for the organization.
First, though, the building must be renovated so it complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act and other regulations. Callahan said the organization hopes to have the store open by mid-August.
She said the move was prompted after the East Main Street building changed ownership and the rent increased.
The Assistance League of Ventura County was founded 65 years ago. Its programs include a Girls Club/Teen Club on Santa Clara Street; Operation School Bell, which provides new school clothes to more than 20,000 children; assault survivor kits; Teens Helping Teens; and the Assistance League School. Most of these programs are paid for with profits from the thrift store, Callahan said.
Visit http://www.assistanceleagueventuracounty.org for more information.
