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Fairgrove Family Resource Center Moves to Bigger Building December 2, 2011

A Thomasville charity that spent nine years helping thousands of people through its cramped mobile home headquarters has moved to a bigger location.

Fairgrove Family Resource Center moved to a building on Myrtle Drive. The center doles out food and other help to thousands of people each month.

Executive Director Terri Nelson said the building's owner gave her an offer a little more than a month ago that she said she couldn't turn down.

"All we did was clean carpets. The walls were painted like this. All we did was move in," Nelson said.

The center now has a warehouse to store food instead of using several small rooms. The space to store food is now five times as large, Nelson said.

Another important advantage to the new building is additional privacy for those wanting to talk to center officials about assistance.

"We can take people and have the types of conversations sometimes people need to have and talk in privacy and share without worrying someone else is going to overhear that conversation," Nelson said.

The new facility makes those receiving assistance like Melissa Lee happy.

"I don't know how they got it, but I'm glad they did because that other place was too small with everybody standing outside when it's cold," said Lee, who is unable to work.

Even with the new building, the center still needs help from the community. They live by the adage that no donation is too small.

For more information, go to www.fgfrc.org.

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