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Meet the Good Shepherds at Columbia's Catholic Church store The Catholic Church's Good Shepherd Shop in Columbia offers bargains galore as well as free clothing for those in need "The store does a wonderful business," says Betty Flaynik, manager, "It's really surprising how many people shop with us." She also makes the point that there is no need for anyone ever to go without clothing because, in addition to selling at the lowest possible prices, the Good Shepherd Shop offers necessities free to people who are in desperate need. The shop works directly with the community any time there is a fire that wipes out a family's posessions. The shop was started 18 years ago and was in cramped corners downtown where it was hard to display merchandise and hard to shop until Betty started insisting on the need for a new building. She says she brought it up many, many times and it really got rolling when Sue and Bill Martin joined her in the quest. She says Bill was the architect for the building. There's a 10-Cent Sale coming up on Octoer 7th where every item in the store will cost only a dime. That is just one of three regular sales that draw huge crowds. Each spring and fall they also hold Dollar-Bag Sales where shoppers can take a 13-gallon garbage bag and fill it full for only a dollar. The only thing they don't accept nor offer is heavy furnniture. Other than that, they welcome donations and are proud to have things in the store ready to help someone. Betty came to this area and fell in love with it -- her husband was from here. After he died she chose this beautiful area as her home and she is recruiting her children to come to Adair County as well. Currently two of her sons are building homes here. There are many volunteers. One who was there on the morning of the photo was Kathryn Krug, who said the shop couldn't have gotten where it is without Frances Harmon who helped from the start and named it. There have been so many volunteers that Father Dan Lincoln won't name names for fear of leaving someone out. The Good Shepherd Catholic Church holds Mass at 9 a.m. Sundays, Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. and Fridays at 9 a.m. This story was posted on 2005-09-12 09:04:53
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