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Oddz & Endz in Grand Marais Distributes Over $170,000 to Other Non-Profits

Oddz & Endz, a non-profit thrift store in Grand Marais, announced that it will distrib­ute its 2024 profit of $173,731.64 to 22 Cook County Non-profits.

Operated 100% with volunteers, 45 adults, seven middle school parents, and six middle school students donated more than 8,000 hours in the store’s community building mission last year. The store’s mission is to provide a place for people in the Cook County community to donate usable household goods, sell those goods at accessible prices, and distribute annual profits to local community non-profits. The vol­unteers direct distributions to recipients of their choice, and the distribution amount is based on the number of hours they’ve volunteered. Each volunteer may designate up to five Cook Coun­ty nonprofits currently and actively pursuing their beneficial missions in the community.

The store received more than 2,400 donations of usable goods and resold those items in rough­ly 17,233 transactions.

The middle school students and parents gen­erated almost $7,000 for a March school trip to Washington, DC.

Call Oddz & Endz at 218-877-7060 for in­formation about volunteering for your favorite non-profit.

This year’s recipients include:

Oddz & Endz
Library Friends
American Legion Auxiliary Unit 413
Arrowhead Animal Rescue
Care Partners
Cook County Higher Education
Cook County LEP Renewable Energy
Cook County Empty Bowls
Cornerstone Community Church
Evangelical Free Church
First Congregational Church
Grand Marais Playhouse
Great Expectations School
Hamilton Habitat
ISD 166 (Washington D.C.)
NS Music Collaborative
North Shore Health Care Foundation
Oral Health Task Force
Sawtooth Mtn Clinic Giving Tree Program
Spirit of the Wilderness Episcopal Church
Good Samaritan Fund
Violence Prevention Center
Food Shelf

Steve Fernlund
Steve Fernlund
Columnist Steve Fernlund is a retired business owner living in Duluth. He published the Cook County News Herald in Grand Marais at the end of the last century. You may email comments or North Shore news story ideas to him at steve.fernlund@gmail.com. And see more at www.stevefernlund.com.
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