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St. Gregory the Great Catholic Church, which sits on a manicured campus in Scripps Ranch, was not built to be an emporium, but last fall hundreds of good-hearted volunteers made it so.
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When no free space remained, they rented a tent. Beneath it, neatly folded piles of men and women clothing were arranged by size and style, in an approximation of an Old Navy.
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"We had hundreds of man hours and woman hours and children hours," said Joni Dieters, a homemaker who volunteered to help victims at St. Gregory. "It was a shop. Maxx."
"You would swear the people were hired to do this," said Jim Savageau, the church maintenance supervisor. "It was better organized than one of the big thrift stores. I thought it was the most amazing thing I saw in my entire life."
It was enough to overwhelm anyone confronting the loss of all of their goods and the life they had known. That how Paula Baker felt.
She went to the church with her husband, Jim, an attorney, their three children and the family dog.
The Scripps Ranch family found comfort among the things. Son Will, then 12 and a fan of anime, a Japanese form of animation,[url=http://giuseppezanottisneakerssale.olimx.com/][b]giuseppe zanotti sneakers with[/b][/url], found a blanket with a favorite character.
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Paula Baker picked up sneakers that she still wears.
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Julianne North, 38, a mother of four and a parishioner at St. Gregory, had prepped for running such an operation for most of her adult life.
She has been shepherding volunteer drives since her days at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, where she once raised $150,000 for a Tijuana orphanage. She met her husband, Chris, on a college charity mission.
That why it saying something when she recalls the
drive at St. Gregory as one of her best moments.
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They allowed people with pick-ups and sport utility vehicles to take what they could carry to North County and East County shelters and churches, for the thousands of other victims who were left homeless.
Then they had almost a dozen large delivery trucks ship the rest of the goods to relief centers in the county other fire-stricken communities.
St. Gregory, where the mahogany-lined parish hall is again used for Sunday classes and the tent has long been pulled down, ceased its imitation of a department store by the second week of November.
But the residual good feelings among victims remain.
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