COMMISSIONER JOINS GOODWILL RIBBON-CUTTING

PEQUANNOCK TOWNSHIP, N.J. _ Sept. 19, 2012, Commissioner Harold J. Wirths of the Department of Labor and Workforce Development (LWD) joined a host of dignitaries in cutting a ribbon today at the grand opening of a new store and donation center for Goodwill Industries of Greater New York and Northern New Jersey, Inc.

The 16,000 square-foot store, located at 561 Route 23 in the Pompton Plains section of the township, is the second Morris County facility opened by Goodwill in the past three years. The first facility opened in Rockaway on Route 46.

The new store, one of eight now operated by Goodwill in New Jersey, offers affordable clothing and household goods to the public, and it will employ 25 to 30 people in the community.

“Goodwill’s opening of this center not only brings affordable goods to this community, but it also brings many jobs. This new facility allows Goodwill to further expand the great service it already provides to the people of New Jersey,” said Commissioner Wirths.

Goodwill Industries, a not-for-profit operation, has worked with the LWD in the past to find jobs for people in the state. Under a $750,000 grant provided by the LWD in 2011, Goodwill established Goodwill Works, a program that provided employment training to single parents.

Among the many people who attended the ribbon-cutting were Goodwill President & CEO William J. Forrester, Morris County Sheriff Edward V. Rochford, Morris County Freeholder Thomas J. Mastrangelo and Pequannock Township Mayor Richard Phelan.                                                           

Commissioner Harold J. Wirths spoke at the opening of a new Goodwill Industries store in Pequannock. Among the dignitaries who joined him were Morris County Sheriff Edward V. Rochford (far left) and (from right to center) Goodwill President and CEO William J. Forrester, Goodwill CFO and Executive Vice President Sandy Weinstein and Morris County Freeholder Thomas J. Mastrangelo.