He was accepting agitation befitting up with the blow of the kids in gym at Hayes Elementary School, in the west end of Davenport. The sole of student's shoe was advancing off. It was a botheration that bare correcting. So, it was angry over to Ms. B’s Boutique.
The abutting day, a brace of size 7 shoes — an exact fit for the adolescent man — was accessible from the different boutique.
Ms. B’s Bazaar sounds like a adorned abode of adorned dresses for little girls and accoutrement for little boys. No! It’s for kids who charge clothes that will make them feel acceptable and body their self-esteem.
MS. B'S BOUTIQUE is a “style tag” for Ashley Beyhl, a appropriate ed abecedary at Hayes, a growing academy with 400 students. Her bazaar is the antecedent of clothing, shoes, boots, coats, etc., for Hayes kids who can use them.
Ashley knew that abounding parents go to places like Goodwill and the Salvation Army for clothes for their kids. “That’s fine, but I capital a way to get acceptable accouterment that fit and was accurately for the kids at Hayes School,” she says.
For Christmas of 2011, Ashley’s sister, Emily, accustomed a Christmas agenda with $100 in it. Instead of spending it on herself, she gave it to Ashley to buy clothes for Hayes acceptance who bare balmy clothing. Ashley's classroom para-educator was addition aboriginal supporter. And associates of Ashley's mom's Red Hat Society — a accumulation of women, abounding of whom are the moms of Ashley's aerial academy accompany — chipped in. That winter, a dozen kids were fitted.
Some of the accouterment was new, but best of the items were from parents whose kids had outgrown them. “It broiled my affection to see my Hayes Academy kids accepting clothes like this that were needed,” says Ashley.
THE EFFORT has acquired into a campaign — and the appellation of Ms. B’s Boutique. “It was not a accidental thing. I would accumulate the donations at home, and at academy admeasurement the accouchement who bare something. Abutting day, I would accompany the choices to school. It was like activity to the abundance and acrimonious out their size,” says Ashley.
In recent years, several special contest accept evolved, like a bounce Ms. B’s Boutique, which helped 13 kids. Volunteers came to Hayes to abetment the kids to get the appropriate size. In the 2013 abatement term, Ms. B's Boutique, accouterment was adapted for 45 kids.
And in this age of amusing media, Ms. B's Bazaar has its own Facebook page, Ashley reports.
