Category: ReStories

UPDATE: This silent auction has closed and the winning $200 bid was submitted by Dave Yak! Thanks, Dave, and all the other bidders for participating! Our next silent auction item is a vintage Burroughs adding machine. In the future we hope to host silent auctions at all ReStore locations.  If you’re a fan of the Habitat ReStore you understand […]

The iconic 1980s transmission shop is changing gears, shifting into something rather unexpected in the City of Vancouver. Detailing is in the hands of artist and musician Heidie McCall. A few years ago Heidie started the band Old Rock ’n’ Roll Queen. She faced push back from clubs that expected bands to play covers, instead […]

Jan dug deep, turning the compost, and as it spilled over exposing  rich organic soil,  her young daughter Kate stood alert, pulling out the largest earthworms then just holding them in her hands. The Portland ReStore has been a little more green the last couple of years? In large part that is due to the […]

Take a look at what John Lassen built from a weathered king-size Ethan Allen bed frame and a door! John, who has 15 years of computer graphics experience, says he does all his projects in Photoshop, first photographing each piece, then reassembling it digitally.   “My processes are born out of necessity,” he says. “I think […]

They own the largest children’s resale store in the Pacific NW, and when they recently upgraded their location, Dawn and Misty swung by the Washington County ReStore to donate extra cash wraps and clothing racks.   Why The ReStore? “We come here all the time!” said Dawn. “We’re community base and we’re about sustainability.” Back in […]

  Julie Carter believes in fate. Could it have led her to The ReStore?   In January we welcomed Julie as the new vice president of retail operations for Habitat for Humanity Portland Metro East. She now oversees operations for our four retail stores including sales, Donation Pickup, Business Relations, Volunteer Development, Marketing and Communications […]

In the back room of the Clark County Habitat Store, Chuck Johnson and a team of volunteers resuscitate neglected, sometimes crusty, power tools and equipment and make them hum again. Volunteering is something Chuck first learned to love as a young boy. “I’ve always volunteered – ever since I was a child doing something,” he […]

Family is what drives Josh LaVille, but the cogs in his head are powered by art, music and creativity. “The art and music is where you learn a DIY ethic because nobody is going to do it for you,” he explains. “In art and music you have to do it for yourself…I’m not a craftsman […]

The trials in Kelly Anderson’s life have only served to make her stronger. -Do you have any anecdotes you’d like to share? -Every day is an anecdote!   Kelly is a volunteer at the Gresham ReStore. From the second day we started setting up the store last November, Kelly has been there every week. She […]

Shadanny Lagunas, Jenny Hoang, Sead Mohammed and Daniel Dynes are four of the more than 30 high school students who worked at ReStores in Portland, Beaverton and Gresham through SummerWorks, a program partially funded by the US Department of Labor. The program teaches students job and career preparedness while allowing them to earn wages for working up […]