Charitable Center To Move

Cooperative Emergency Outreach Will Close For Three Weeks

FAYETTEVILLE — Cooperative Emergency Outreach, a nonprofit organization that has served poor, unemployed and sick people for more than 20 years, is scheduled to close for three weeks while it relocates.

The organization, which provides rental assistance, food, clothing, medicine and transportation to people in need, will cease operations Friday at 419 W. Rock St., just south of the Fayetteville Public Library, according to a news release.

A new center is scheduled to open July 22 at 1649 Huntsville Road, next to EOA Head Start of Washington County’s central office.

The organization was asked to look for a new location before the City Hospital building closed in September. Washington Regional Medical Center administrators let the group operate rent and utility free for years in a building the medical center owns on City Hospital property.

Joe Dushan, Outreach board president, asked Monday for donations to help pay for the purchase, renovation and maintenance of the new building. Dushan said the organization is about one-third of the way to a $400,000 fundraising goal.

Cooperative Emergency Outreach relies exclusively on donations, mostly from churches in Washington County. The organization is fully staffed by volunteers.

For more information, or to make a donation, go to ceofayetteville.org.

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