Windsor Community Closet opens

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Pictured are the volunteers who helped start the Windsor Community Closet, which is housed in Room 304 of the Windsor Center. Volunteers, from left, include Marla Busakowski, Sue Peterson, Deb Ketchum, Sue Fritz, Freedom Ryan and Darla Bonno.

By Jerry DeRoche
IRON RIVER — A community clothes closet has opened this week in Room 304 of the Windsor Center in Iron River.
The Windsor Community Closet was slated to open Monday, going forward with hours of 10 a.m. to noon on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. The closet will offer new and gently used (emphasis on gently used) clothing for women and men, boys and girls, infants and toddlers. The closet will also offer new and gently used bedding, toiletries and other similar items.
    The idea for the closet stemmed from the annual one-day Community Connect event held in the Windsor Center in November.
    “After the last Community Connect event last November, we kind of came up with the idea,” said Sue Fritz, one of the volunteers who have implemented the idea. “One of us just said, ‘We should have a store and the rest of us said, why don’t we?’ So we did.
“It was a team effort. We all came together, and it was amazing. It was fun and it was hard work.”
    In addition to Fritz, the volunteer group includes Marla Busakowski, Sue Peterson, Deb Ketchum, Freedom Ryan, Darla Bonno and Dawn Pisoni.
The Windsor Community Closet received a generous donation of coats and other clothing from the Healing Loft of Trout Creek. Pilots from the School of Missionary Aviation Technology flew into the Iron River airport with bags of coats and the other items.
    Additionally, Angeli Foods donated shelving and clothing racks which came from the former Shopko store.
    “This is an Iron County-wide (closet),” Fritz said. “Whoever else wants to come in, as well.”