For the fifth year in a row, Algonquin Outfitters (AO) wants to help ensure everyone in our community stays warm outside this winter. The store’s annual winter coat drive launched on November 1 outside The Table Soup Kitchen with AO’s donation of five new Point Zero jackets along with a few coats donated by AO customers.<\/p>\n
“This helps to fill such a need in our community,” said Heather Berg, CEO and founder of The Table Soup Kitchen Foundation which receives the donated coats in Huntsville. “We pass them out to help keep people warm in winter and they’re always gone quickly. We are so grateful that AO and their customers donate them.”<\/p>\n
All of the gently used donated coats – and any others donated through the month – will be available for pick up at The Table on Tuesdays and Fridays from 12-3 and Saturdays from 10-1. The Table will hold a draw for the five new jackets with the winners being announced in mid-November.<\/p>\n
“Every year we donate about 100 jackets that customers bring in,” said Randy Mitson, AO’s Marketing Manager. “It’s a great, feel-good community initiative. Rich and Sue (Swift) are so community-oriented and this is one of the many ways they give back.”<\/p>\n
To encourage everyone to participate, the store has also launched a buy, give, get promotion: buy any regular-priced winter coat at any AO location during November, donate your old warm, wearable and washed winter coat, and receive a $50 AO gift card toward your next purchase at the store. Don’t need a new coat? Simply donating a warm coat is welcome, too. All of the donated coats will be given to charities in each of AO’s local communities.<\/p>\n\n\t\t