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Home improvement store donates to homeless shelter
Religious Community Services volunteers can insulate building walls, place new sheets on homeless shelter beds and replace broken brooms and light bulbs after a gift from Lowe's Home Improvement store on Friday. A Lowe's truck rolled to the shelter's warehouse docks on George Street, and New Bern store employees unloaded tool boxes, smoke detectors, towels and pillows, canned goods, cleaning brushes and other items. The donation was part of the Lowe's company's "Heroes" program, said Brian Covert, who manages the New Bern store. Each store is given money to help an organization or community group, Covert said. Lee McConnell, a shelter volunteer and former Lowe's employee, talked to Bob Howe, a current volunteer, about donating to the shelter and food pantry. "They asked what RCS needs," Howe said. "We said food and clothes. They said ‘no, what does RCS need as an organization?' I made them a wish list, and they said they'd take care of it. I said ‘whoa.' " Covert said Loretta Edwards, a credit and Heroes coordinator at the New Bern Lowe's, liked the idea of donating supplies to the shelter. Edwards and McConnell worked with Howe to compile the list of supplies. "I love that a company that built itself on home improvement is helping the homeless," McConnell said. "These are all things RCS will be using in day-to-day operations." Bobbie Hewlette, the executive director of Religious Community Services, said she was overwhelmed and speechless as Lowe's employees unloaded the items. Howe said he was excited the shelter had a new, longer stepladder for changing light bulbs. "Looks like Christmas came early to us," Howe said. Howe said the Lowe's tools and a recent horse trailer full of mattresses that a woman donated will allow the shelter to replace beds it has used for 10 years. Brian Covert said he wants to use his company's Heroes program again next year to help the shelter. Covert has been manager of the New Bern Lowe's for a year and a half, and he said he has tried to do more community projects than previous managers. Next year, Covert wants to replace the boards that hold the shelter and food pantry building together. He also wants to paint the building. http://www.enctoday.com/news/shelter_43267_nbsj__article.html/ store_lowe.html |
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