Your blogger is a regular patron of Citizen Thrift. A couple of months
ago something amazing happened - it just became better under new
management. Walked in today doing the usual
re-think/recycle/re-use/re-imagine routine, buying some marble pieces at
a buck a piece to turn into cutting boards or cheese boards - other
people were buying them to make countertops or resurface floors and
walls. The salesperson said stop by for our Re-Opening ... the mayor will be here.
When new management took over, space in the back became a food pick-up area, the details of which I didn't know until a conversation was started with the manager remarking about the transformation.
You can pick up on all the details and good deeds from "People of Good Will" - no NOT Goodwill Industries - by reading an entry on Mayor John Giles blog with his monthly Spotlight on Hunger > NextMesa: the Mayor's Blog
For history buffs that is the same location as one of the first "shopping centers" that began attracting customers away from Main Street. You can see the adaptive-reuse of one of Mesa's first shopping centers.
Another Re-Opening: On the way there if you're heading from downtown, take notice of the new location for Family Dollar at the SWC of Miller & Main.
Mayor Giles is DA MAN: Rubbing elbows with Apple Execs in Cupertino, California, mixing at National Mayors' Conference in Washington, D.C, and now making the time with a Spotlight On Hunger - earning frequent flier miles in some cases, and earning political points showing concern for those on the other end of the economic spectrum - in his own words "Doing Good Stuff"
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