PORT LUDLOW – When Dee McConnell came up with the idea of holding a high-end used clothing sale as a fundraiser, neither she nor Eline Lybarger thought their neighbors would be interested in wearing clothes off each other’s backs.
But they were wrong.
“Ninety percent of the people who came were from Port Ludlow,” Lybarger said.
Lybarger is president of the Community Enrichment Alliance, a Port Ludlow group that supports education by raising money for college scholarships and other purposes.
Last Thursday, she and McConnell presented a check for $3,500 – money raised at a used clothing sale – to Tim Hockett, director of Olympic Community Action Programs, the North Olympic Peninsula social services organization.
The money will provide scholarships for women to attend workshops to develop employment potential, but Port Ludlow residents who attended the sale also got a lot of mileage out of it.
“Everyone’s having so much fun,” McConnell said.
“They’re showing up in their clothes and saying, ‘Look what I got for $10.'”
McConnell co-chaired the sale with Rebecca Rimbach.
She also came up with the idea of asking people to donate high-end clothing they no longer wanted.
