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About 540 supporters of Goodwill Industries of North Florida attended the 10th Annual Striving to Succeed Luncheon Thursday to honor the 2010 Achievers of the Year.
Two of the achievers, Kendal McCoy (left) and Anthony Stewart joined Goodwill President and CEO Bob Thayer (right) after the event. Goodwill employee Durell Williams also was honored.
Goodwill serves 35,000 people annually and places 10,500 into jobs.
The event at the Morocco Shrine Center also featured a fashion show of media reporters and television anchors wearing Goodwill Thrift Store clothes, with Paul Mitchell The School providing hair and makeup services.
The honorees all are people who achieved success through Goodwill.
McCoy was an evacuee from Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and learned about the Goodwill Job Junctions while buying some interview clothes at the Mandarin Goodwill.
He is an employment specialist at the Downtown Job Junction.
Stewart was homeless and sought shelter at the Sulzbacher Center in May 2009. He learned about Goodwill and the services of its Job Junctions, becoming a sales associate in a Goodwill store and has been promoted to the store management team.
Williams is a student at the Palm Avenue School for the Exceptional and works full-time in the Goodwill Laundry.