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Sandy Deese has been working to clean up her shop after an unknown person entered through the back door and tore it up several times. (Photo provided by Sandy Deese.)
WATONGA – A local thrift store owner is urging Watonga businesses to stay alert and secure after she says her own shop was vandalized several times.
Sandy Deese, manager of the Sweet Repeats thrift store on Noble Avenue, posted on Facebook last week that someone has been entering the shop through the back door and trashing the store.
Deese told the Watonga Republican the person apparently has a key. She said they trashed the store for the first time on or about July 5, and for a third time around July 13.
The instruder also smokes in the store, Deese said. She has since changed the locks on the store.
Deese said she has no idea who might be responsible. The whole thing has been doubly challenging because Deese has been dealing with health issues at the same time, she said.
“It’s going to take time but I’ll get it back to good!” Deese said in a text last week. “I’m just trying to be a service to the community. I have customers come in that have kids with barely anything and I give them a bag for each kid for little to nothing. I know what it’s like, I’ve been there and when people think it’s okay to do others like this it makes it almost impossible to do that. I will pray for them. That’s all I know to do right now.”
Sweet Repeats is located at 117 S Noble Ave. in Watonga.