Five Star Cleaners launches drive to collect winter coats

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Five Star Cleaners launches drive to collect winter coats
San Antonio Business Journal

Five Star Cleaners and former San Antonio Spurs player Robert Horry are teaming up once again to help collect coats for needy families this winter.

Starting Monday, all 18 area Five Star Cleaners will be accepting gently used winter coats. All the coats will be cleaned, repaired and donated to Christian Assistance Ministry and SAMMinistries. From there, the nonprofit ministries will distribute the coats to underprivileged families as part of the “Cold Days, Warm Hearts Winter Coat Project.”

Last year, more than 6,000 coats were collected and distributed. Because of the challenging economy, this year’s goal is to collect 10,000 coats for underprivileged families. Each person who donates a coat will receive a $5 gift certificate from Five Star Cleaners that can be used to drop the price of an order. Coats will be collected through January.

“Given the current economic downturn, many in our city will need a winter coat but may not be able to afford one. It’s important that we work together as a community to help those in need,” says Horry, who is the honorary spokesperson for the project.

Five Star Cleaners has been in business in San Antonio for the last 29 years.

Christian Assistance Ministry is a cooperative ministry founded in 1977 by nine downtown San Antonio churches to offer temporary assistance to people in need of food, clothing and emergency financial aid. Today, Christian Assistance Ministry (CAM) is supported by more than 65 churches. The CAM Day Center offers showers, laundry facilities and a safe location for homeless people during the day.

SAMMinistries is an interfaith ministry with a mission of helping the homeless and those at risk of becoming homeless. The ministry helps hundreds of people each day in need of emergency services, transitional housing and an after-care program.

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This is funny. They want to give away free coasts to the public, but if a paying customer can't find his cleaning receipt ticket they won't give him his own coat back?



Wouldn't it be smarter to just end the homeless issues so we don't have to this this every winter?