10:51am | Long Beach City Councilman Dee Andrews is joining a local women’s shelter on Saturday to celebrate the grand opening of a new thrift store benefitting the shelter.
The public is invited to attend the event, which will be held on Saturday, June 18, at 10 a.m. at the Treasure Hunt Thriftique, 1178 E. Anaheim St.
According to information provided by the councilman’s Sixth District staff, Treasure Hunt Thriftique is the second location operated by New Life Beginnings, a nonprofit long-term shelter for crisis-stricken pregnant and homeless women that employs tough love and goal-oriented programing to empower women to break free of the welfare cycle and become contributing members of society, according to the shelter’s website. It also offers programs for these women’s children.
“This new business will help our city in so many ways,” Andrews said in a statement. “From the families in need that it serves to the blight that this newly remodeled building has replaced, New Life Beginnings keeps giving back.”
Bonnie Beardslee and Rebecca Younger founded and launched New Life Beginnings in 1984. In a statement they said:
The women who land on our doorstep are pregnant, homeless, often abused, depressed and hopeless. Many of them have children in tow and several have drug and alcohol problems or failed marriages. It makes no difference whether they are penniless, on welfare or some other indigent help-system; we are here to help pregnant women in crisis take charge of their lives to become contributing members of society.
New Life Beginnings is funded solely by private donations and the profits it generates from the operation of the stores thrift stores.