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FALSE ADVERTISING SUIT SETTLED – 08/13/14 19:21 S.S.

A FALSE ADVERTISING SUIT HAS BEEN SETTLED BY THE OWNER OF A SEASIDE THRIFT STORE. OSCAR MALARIN, WHO OWNED AND OPERATED SAINT JUDE’S THRIFT SHOP FROM DECEMBER OF 2013 UNTIL MAY OF 2014, HAD SIGNS AROUND HIS STORE THAT STATED THAT THE “PROCEEDS WILL GO TO SAINT JUDE’S CHILDREN HOSPITAL”….BUT BECAUSE THE OWNER DID NOT SET UP HIS BUSINESS PROPERLY AS A NON-PROFIT, AND IT NEVER TURNED A PROFIT IN THAT TIME, NO STORE MONEY ACTUALLY WENT TO THE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL. MALARIN, WHO HAD MADE PERSONAL DONATIONS TO THE HOSPITAL, SAID HE NEVER INTENDED TO MISLEED THE PUBLIC, AND HAS SINCE RENAMED THE STORE, AND HAS AGREED TO MAKE APPROPRIATE DONATIONS TO SAINT JUDE’S CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL. MALARIN’S SEASIDE STORE IS NOW NAMED “HERE TODAY, GONE TOMORROW”, AND IT IS SET UP AS A FOR-PROFIT BUSINESS……AND HE SAYS IT WILL STAY THAT WAY.

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