The Hospitality Shop Needs You
The Hospitality Shop, Sewanee’s one-stop shop on University Avenue across from the Sewanee Inn, has for 50 years provided the tri-county area with an enticing variety of must-haves for home and wardrobe. Right now the staff is looking for more volunteers to keep the doors open.
There are four departments at the shop. Each department requires a clerk to arrange donations and write checkout tickets. The departments are housewares and gifts, men’s, women’s, and children’s clothes with books, toys, games and puzzles. Everyone is welcome to be clerks in these departments as well as the checkout cashier.
The shop hours are Tuesday and Thursday 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., and Saturday at 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Please call (931) 924-5064 to volunteer.
Please consider volunteering. Profits are used to give scholarships to high school seniors interested in the medical field and to health care workers for continuing education.
The Hospitality Shop is also in need of donations of gently used clothes and décor items. Generous giving in this area allows us to sell items at thrift store prices to the customers.
The Hospitality Shop is a great place to find everyday items as well as the unusual, such as a Bento Box lunch kit, a towel warmer and an antique Bermuda doll. There are Halloween costumes for all ages.
The board is planning a Silent Auction featuring some of our finest wares during Reunion Weekend, Nov. 5–7. The building needs some deferred maintenance. More information will be posted on this event in the near future.