Clothing bank is looking for a home

LouAnn Larson had a dream - a dream of establishing a free-will donation clothing bank in Ogden. “There was a time in my life I couldn’t even afford to buy from a garage sale and I needed someplace like this,” explains Larson.

Lori Beam, who after the first shopping day in August joined in the cause, knows the feeling. She, too, had been through times where she had to reach out for help. She not only volunteers now, but serves as LouAnn’s assistant.

Threads of Hope is their way of paying back, or paying forward,  for the help they received during those hard times. 

Larson started taking donations in October of 2015.

She approached Water’s Edge Church in January of this year, and they graciously donated one of their rooms. 

But the clothing bank has now outgrown the allotted space and she is desperately seeking a new location where individuals and families can go for clothing and accessories.

Larson says they want to stay in the Ogden area. “Ogden is a great community and I want another resource for the people that live here. I think the rural communities sometimes get forgotten.”

Read more in the Sept. 28 issue of The Ogden Reporter.