SEQUIM — Sequim’s Serenity House is getting some serving to arms — or eyes, because it have been — to assist the nonprofit with problems with vandalism and theft.
Sequim Electronics/Radio Shack, a locally-owned and operated client electronics retailer, not too long ago donated a safety digital camera and supporting tools to Serenity Thrift Store, a corporation that gives clothes, family items and different objects to individuals in want.
For the final couple of years, the shop has had individuals breaking into dumpsters, unlawful dumping, vandalism and theft. In a mid-August interview, Serenity shops director Belicia (Belle) Muñoz stated inside the previous 12 months she has observed these points occurring — and escalating — almost each day. People have been breaking into the dumpsters and taking issues, then scattering trash across the property, she stated.
When Sequim Electronics supervisor Becky Northaven examine Serenity House’s points, she was moved to do one thing about it.
“I assumed, ‘Holy moly, they’re simply throughout the road’,” Northaven stated.
“I actually like Serenity House. They’re an admirable nonprofit that helps the group.”
From left, Michael Murphy of Olympic TV Tech, Serenity Thrift Store director Belicia Muñoz and Sequim Electronics supervisor Becky Northaven meet at Serenity House Store in Sequim. Sequim Electronics donated a safety digital camera and tools that Murphy put in in late August. (Michael Dashiell / Olympic Peninsula News Group)
While Sequim Electronics helps a number of group organizations and efforts with funds, such because the junior livestock public sale, Sequim Food Bank and youth actions, that is the primary donation of kit of this sort.
“It’s an opportunity to assist the area people be a bit bit higher,” Northaven stated.
The donated digital camera will hyperlink with Serenity House’s system and be supported with an accompanying 4 terabyte exhausting drive. The digital camera has excellent night time imaginative and prescient, Northaven stated, and can alert a workers member by way of a smartphone app when it detects movement.
“Over the final 5 years, digital camera optics have improved dramatically,” Northaven stated. “Hopefully this catches them within the act.”
In late August, Northaven and Michael Murphy of Olympic TV & Tech met with Muñoz to set up the brand new system.
“We are blissful to donate our time and experience to assist Serenity Thrift Store,” stated Murphy, a licensed and bonded technician with 25 years in tv, web and residential safety, in a press launch.
“We consider that everybody has the proper to really feel secure of their group, and we’re dedicated to making a distinction.”
For extra about Serenity House of Clallam County, go to serenityhouseclallam.org.
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Michael Dashiell is the editor of the Sequim Gazette of the Olympic Peninsula News Group, which additionally consists of different Sound Publishing newspapers Peninsula Daily News and Forks Forum. Reach him at [email protected].
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