Western News: October 02, 2018

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Charity box items go missing
• By Anan Zaki
A SALVATION Army store
in Hornby has had enough of
people taking donated goods.
Items from the store’s afterhours
donation box have gone
missing, or have ended up damaged,
Salvation Army Community
Ministries Hornby director
Kevin Waugh said.
Mr Waugh said the donation
box is left open to fit a variety of
goods that the store may receive
and counts on people’s honesty.
But good Samaritans often
alerted the store.
“People from the community
have said to us that during afterhours
they’ve seen stuff dropped
off and then seeing another car
come in and go through everything,”
he said.
Mr Waugh is disappointed
that people have taken advantage
of the box.
“It is [disappointing that]
some in our community has
decided they would like to go
through them.
“Stuff disappears, worst case
is they throw it all around and
make it unusable,” Mr Waugh
said.
Common items that go
missing are clothing, pots and
furniture.
Police suggested additional
security but the store will take
another approach.
Mr Waugh is asking people to
stop donating goods after-hours
and phone the store instead.
“If you’ve got donations and
you want to give it to us, call us
and we’ll make arrangements to
pick it up if it’s after-hours,” Mr
Waugh said.
People have also been breaking
into waste bins, creating a
nuisance to the store, Mr Waugh
said.
“When we go to use it, it’s full
of other people’s rubbish. So
we lock it but people have been
breaking into it.”
The store has gone through
seven padlocks this year, Mr
Waugh said.
He said the “annoyances” distracts
the charity from it’s job,
which is to help the community.
Mr Waugh believes the
store’s location on the corner
of Halswell Junction Rd and
Columbia Ave may have contributed.
“It’s an industrial area, it’s
open, there’s all sorts of ways
around the building nobody’s
MISSING:
Salvation Army
Community
Ministries
Hornby director
Kevin Waugh
is upset with
people sealing
donated items
from outside
their door.
there to say: ‘Don’t do that’,” he
said.
The store has been at it’s current
location since December
last year.
“We won’t relocate just
because this is happening. I
|guess it’s part of what happens
at op-shops.
“Anything that’s dropped off
outside is always a temptation to
take,” Mr Waugh said.
•To drop off an item
after-hours at Salvation
Army Hornby South Family
Store, phone 344 2530
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