Council Bluffs Goodwill

Dianne Willenborg talked about Goodwill and Holly Schwietz, the work experience trainer at the Goodwill in Council Bluffs.  Dianne shops frequently at Goodwill and likes to see all the Mercedes, BMWs, and other fancy cars at the store, emphasizing its quality.  The Council Bluffs store has won several awards.

Dianne has observed Holly Schwietz working at the store with special needs youth from the Iowa School for the Deaf and from Council Bluffs.  Holly gives clear assignments to these students and then follows through on their work and training.  She obviously likes working with youth and the clean, well organized store is the result.

The Goodwill store has high quality donations for sale from the local area.  However, antiques are sent elsewhere and rarely found there.

All items in the store are color coded with green, red, yellow, purple, and blue.  Items new to the store are color coded with a specific color for the week.  Every week on Monday, items of a specific color go on sale for that week for $0.99.