In 1951, East Portland Rotarians and the Boy Scouts started a door-to-door donation drive to help Goodwill Industries when donations were slow. Now, Good Turn Day is about to turn 60 years old.
In the week prior to Good Turn Day, Scouts will deliver collection bags to communities in Oregon and Southwest Washington in hopes people will fill those bags with gently used household goods and clothes that can be resold by Goodwill.
Then, on March 5, hundreds of Scouts will scour those same streets to retrieve the filled bags. They’ll deliver the bags to drop-off sites where volunteer truck drivers will get the goods to Goodwill stores.
Last year, 2,000 Boy Scouts and more than 50 East Portland Rotarians filled nearly 18,000 bags with 230,000 pounds of donations. Goodwill uses more than 92 cents of every dollar of its sales to train and employ people with disabilities.
For more information, call Jeff Aradine, 503-706-1824, or Dale Emanuel, 503-572-0177.
