Threads for Teens To Unveil
New Location on the Windsor Town Green
Santa Rosa, CA, June 22nd
2012—On June 29th, 2012, Threads for Teens will be debuting its
brand-new location on the Windsor Town Green. The space, located at 620
McClelland Drive, was generously donated for use by Bill and Lori DenBeste of
DenBeste Motorsports. Threads for Teens is a non-profit organization that
provides brand-new clothing to girls who are in foster care, live in group
homes, or are subjected to situations of poverty. Threads for Teens was
previously located off of Conde Lane in Windsor. Over the course of the past
several months, volunteers have been tediously working to prepare the new
location for girls to come shop. Many local donors have come forward to help
support the renovation, including the home and outdoor design shop Cokas Diko.
Threads for Teens was founded
in January 2010 by then fourteen-year-old Allyson Ahlstrom with the goal of
helping less fortunate teenage girls feel confident and hopeful by providing
clothing, support, and education. Since the opening of the boutique, over one
hundred seventy-five girls have been provided with new clothing from well-known
brands, such as Tommy Hilfiger, Miss Me, American Eagle Outfitters, and Ugg
Australia, with over $100,000 worth of clothing donations and $40,000 in cash
donations.
Allyson Ahlstrom, now
seventeen years old, recently won the National Build-a-Bear Huggable Heroes
award. Huggable Heroes is a program founded in 2004 to honor and reward young
people for giving back to their communities, their schools and our world. In
celebration of the company’s 15th birthday, Build-A-Bear Workshop® will honor
15 Huggable Heroes this year and donate $150,000 to their education and
charitable causes. The national youth program, which recognizes young people
for giving back to their communities and around the world, awards each Huggable
Hero $10,000 (a $7,500 educational scholarship and $2,500 from the Build-A-Bear
Workshop Foundation to be donated to the 501(c)(3) charity or Canadian cause of
the Huggable Hero’s choice). More information is available at buildabear.com/huggableheroes.
The grand opening will take
place on Friday, June 29th 2012, from 6:00pm-9:00pm. At this time
supporters can come to the drop-in event to see the wonderful transformation
that the boutique has undergone and learn about the programs and initiatives
that Threads for Teens has sponsored in the past and will undertake in the
future. The event will be catered with appetizers, generously donated by Mary’s
Pizza Shack. For more information, please go to www.threadsforteens.org or call
Allyson Ahlstrom at (707) 483-9128, or email her at allysonahlstrom@gmail.com.
