HHH to open 'Winter Clothing Closet' for 2026-27 season
New kitchen and dining/gathering space added to Ephrata resource center.
Updated
Dawn Prince shows the new dining/gathering space at His Helping Hands resource center in Ephrata. A new kitchen has also been added to the facility, which will begin providing services Monday, Nov. 2, and continue through winter. Photos by Randy Bracht
EPHRATA — His Helping Hands, a local nonprofit ministry serving low-income and homeless persons and families in Grant County, will open its Winter Clothing Closet on Monday, Nov. 2, and continue through February to provide free cold-weather clothing, blankets, sleeping bags, hygiene products, and more.
HHHis located in Ephrata at 29 Alder St. S.W. — the former Grant County Journal building. The facility is open on Mondays and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
While not a warming shelter, the community resource center continues to expand its services to persons in need.
Dawn Prince, who helped initiate the ministry in 2011 and continues to guide the nonprofit program, pointed to its newly completed kitchen and dining/gathering space in what used to be an industrial newspaper press room.
The warmly furnished gathering space was decorated by Emily Molitor in remembrance of a family member, Elizabeth Molitor, said Prince. “And it’s lovely.”
Free meals will be available when the center is open on Mondays and Saturdays.
On those days, unsheltered persons age 18 and older can also use the center’s shower facilities between 8-9:30 a.m., and washing machines are available for one free load of laundry per week. Access to both showers and laundry is on a first-come basis.
The HHH resource center is located on Alder Street S.W. in Ephrata. The former newspaper office has been extensively remodeled, to include a new kitchen (below) funded by the Paul Lauzier Foundation.
Upon verifiable need, the nonprofit organization can also provide periodic financial help to persons for utilities, transportation, or emergency housing.
There are plenty of coats, hoodies, sweatshirts, hats, gloves, scarves and other cold-weather provisions for adults, teens, and children. The goods are free, but all recipients must be present at the facility to receive them.
Within the HHH center, conference rooms are also available for individuals to privately talk with behavioral service providers such as the state-sanctioned Recovery Navigator program.
Over the past three years, Columbia Basin Foundation and other donors have been instrumental in raising over $750,000 to transform and modernize the former newspaper building, which also houses Crossroads, a women’s health and pregnancy resource provider in an adjacent-but-separate office.
Goal achieved, thanks to generous contributors.
Prince voiced sincere appreciation for HHH volunteers who staff the center and the ongoing generosity shown by donors, large and small, over the past 15 years. She thanked building owners Nick Tommer and Joe Whalen, Westland Development LLC, Columbia Basin Foundation and executive director Corinne Isaak, the Paul Lauzier Foundation for funding the new kitchen addition, Grant County commissioners, Basin Tree Service, Confluence Health and Wenatchee Valley Medical Group, and individual donations that included separate anonymous contributions of $47,000 and $15,000.
“It has been so incredible,” said Prince. “We are so thankful for everyone who has helped serve this community.”
Cold-weather clothing and personal hygiene supplies are available for persons in need. File photos
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HHH to open 'Winter Clothing Closet' for 2026-27 season
New kitchen and dining/gathering space added to Ephrata resource center.
EPHRATA — His Helping Hands, a local nonprofit ministry serving low-income and homeless persons and families in Grant County, will open its Winter Clothing Closet on Monday, Nov. 2, and continue through February to provide free cold-weather clothing, blankets, sleeping bags, hygiene products, and more.
HHH is located in Ephrata at 29 Alder St. S.W. — the former Grant County Journal building. The facility is open on Mondays and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
While not a warming shelter, the community resource center continues to expand its services to persons in need.
Dawn Prince, who helped initiate the ministry in 2011 and continues to guide the nonprofit program, pointed to its newly completed kitchen and dining/gathering space in what used to be an industrial newspaper press room.
The warmly furnished gathering space was decorated by Emily Molitor in remembrance of a family member, Elizabeth Molitor, said Prince. “And it’s lovely.”
Free meals will be available when the center is open on Mondays and Saturdays.
On those days, unsheltered persons age 18 and older can also use the center’s shower facilities between 8-9:30 a.m., and washing machines are available for one free load of laundry per week. Access to both showers and laundry is on a first-come basis.
Upon verifiable need, the nonprofit organization can also provide periodic financial help to persons for utilities, transportation, or emergency housing.
There are plenty of coats, hoodies, sweatshirts, hats, gloves, scarves and other cold-weather provisions for adults, teens, and children. The goods are free, but all recipients must be present at the facility to receive them.
Within the HHH center, conference rooms are also available for individuals to privately talk with behavioral service providers such as the state-sanctioned Recovery Navigator program.
Over the past three years, Columbia Basin Foundation and other donors have been instrumental in raising over $750,000 to transform and modernize the former newspaper building, which also houses Crossroads, a women’s health and pregnancy resource provider in an adjacent-but-separate office.
Prince voiced sincere appreciation for HHH volunteers who staff the center and the ongoing generosity shown by donors, large and small, over the past 15 years. She thanked building owners Nick Tommer and Joe Whalen, Westland Development LLC, Columbia Basin Foundation and executive director Corinne Isaak, the Paul Lauzier Foundation for funding the new kitchen addition, Grant County commissioners, Basin Tree Service, Confluence Health and Wenatchee Valley Medical Group, and individual donations that included separate anonymous contributions of $47,000 and $15,000.
“It has been so incredible,” said Prince. “We are so thankful for everyone who has helped serve this community.”