THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, June 16, 1994 TAG: 9406160013
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We are marking this occasion with the opening of a new store on the Peninsula and moving our Norfolk facility to new, more modern quarters on Tidewater Drive in Norfolk.
{REST} These new facilities will enable us to increase further our outreach to those needing our training, employment and placement services, helping them become fully participating members of our community.
In 1993, we served more than 225 such people, placing 53 of them in permanent employment with an average hourly pay exceeding $5, and in the doing we made payers rather than recipients of tax revenue.
I wish to use this opportunity to thank the many citizens of Hampton Roads who have made our program possible. The list is long, but we especially appreciate the thousands of citizens who have contributed merchandise to Goodwill through its attended donation centers and at the main facilities, those who have made monetary contributions and certainly the many regional businesses that hire our clients.
As we embark on our 70th year of service to Hampton Roads, we are grateful for the continuing support of so many who make our effort possible.
Our business works so people can!
ROBERT W. JONES JR., president
Goodwill Industries
of Hampton Roads Inc.
Norfolk, June 10, 1994
by CNB