What Goulburn Options’ Go Again Op Shop is today all began with Ms Edwards’ own mother.
The initiative was brought to life by a group of local parents who each had children with a disability.
“It’s a long history going back,” Ms Edwards said.
“There were a lot of people who started it off."
The op shop moved from place to place, and went from name to name, but it became Go Again when it moved to a shopfront just around the corner from where it is today on Anzac Ave in Seymour.
The shop supports Goulburn Options and its valuable community programs, all while providing the service’s participants with the chance to try their hand at retail service.
Ms Edwards’ decades-long volunteer service to the initiative was all about continuing her mother’s legacy, and paying homage to her late brother Barry, who had down syndrome.
“I’ve always thought of Mum, Mum and Barry,” she said.
“That’s why I just keep going, from what Mum had done.”
She also volunteers to keep the memory of those who started it all with her mother alive.
“I think of all the people that used to be here, that had all the kids, that’s why I keep going,” Ms Edwards said.
“There were all different people, but a lot of them aren’t here now.”
Today, Bev volunteers with her sister Shirley Neal, and her daughter Tracey Gatt, while her husband, Bob, is on the Goulburn Options board.
Poking fun, she said her daughter “bosses us around a lot”, but they all got along well.
And while her decades of service won’t continue for ever, she hopes to keep the tradition in the family.
“You don’t think about all the years. You just think, ‘Was it that long? Surely it wasn’t that long ago?’,” she said.
“I don’t know whether I’ll keep going after Christmas, though I always say that.
“But Tracey’s got to keep it going.”
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