Check out news stories from the Penticton Herald, Castanet, Penticton Western News and The Times Chronicle about the Oliver Thrift Store, which thanks to a $5,000 Community Foundation grant, was able to install an elevator at the store.

“The elevator has allowed our volunteers, who are mostly seniors, a safe way to transport merchandise from the processing area to the retail space,” says Jane Noonan, who volunteers at the store, which raises funds for the South Okanagan Medical Centre and SOS Medical Foundation.

This grant was a part of the $330K granted in 2022 to local charitable organizations in South Okanagan/Similkameen.