Sidewalk sale at Twice As Nice to benefit Southern Regional students pursuing business

Since opening in July, Twice As Nice store owners Jay Zimmerman and Carrie von Gorski have accumulated a generous amount of clothing and accessory donations. In order to give back to the community, many of the items were sold at the Manahawkin Mart flea market, and the proceeds have been reserved for a Southern Regional business scholarship fund.

To raise more scholarship money, the owners are hosting a sidewalk sale at the shop’s second site, located at 587 Mill Creek Rd. in Manahawkin, on Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 8 and 9, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Photo by Ryan Morrill
The store includes women's, men's and children's
apparel as well as accessories and shoes.

All available items, including more than 1,000 pieces of women’s, children’s and men’s clothing and accessories as well as shoes, will be free. The owners are just asking for a monetary donation for their scholarship fund.

“The purpose of this is to give back to students pursuing business,” Zimmerman explained. “We want to give as many $500 scholarships as possible. Our goal is two, and if we get more than that, that would be great.”

The effort is one near and dear to the hearts of the store owners, who are both 1997 SRHS graduates managing several of their own successful businesses.

To help them run the event, Zimmerman and von Gorksi are looking for six to 10 student volunteers who are interested in learning more about the business culture.

“It would be easy for us to just donate the clothing to a fundraiser that already exists, Stafford has a couple. But this gets the students involved in the process of business, and that’s kind of what our vision is – just to get them out ‘doing sales’ even though we’re not doing any selling,” Zimmerman said. “It gets the students out and kind of teaches them a little bit about business, and in return we’ll choose as many scholarships as possible, depending on how much we raise, to give to some of the same students, hopefully.”

Food from Ray’s New York Pizza and Restaurant will be provided to those helping out.

To sign up as a volunteer, or for more information, call 609-618-2812.

— Kelley Anne Essinger


This article was published in The SandPaper.