The Seattle Times: Living: Discovery Shop, similar organizations need new volunteers to replace aging ranks: "Discovery Shop, similar organizations need new volunteers to replace aging ranks
By Sherry Stripling
Seattle Times staff reporter
GREG GILBERT / THE SEATTLE TIMES
Volunteer Lillian Beste, 90, irons clothes to be sold at the Discovery Shop on Roosevelt Way in Seattle to raise money for the American Cancer Society.
A bench laden with used appliances awaits a 'fix-it' volunteer who will plug things in to see if they work. In the back room of the American Cancer Society's tucked-away Discovery Shop on Roosevelt Way, mounds of upscale used clothing get sorted, washed and ironed by women who have given all of their lives as wives, mothers, professionals.
Like the goods at the Discovery Shop, many of the volunteers have a lot more constructive life remaining, but some are sticking to their posts awaiting replacements who do not come. Nearly half are in their 80s. Almost all have been touched by cancer or lost someone they love. "
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