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- Nor- - - Recent article in the SnoValley Star features Snoqualmie Valley Eyecare patient! We mean it when we say - You'll see. We care.
Makeover is a Christmas lift for Valley woman
January 4, 2012
By Sebastian Moraga
Sometimes a cookie is just a cookie. Sometimes it’s a great, big thank you.
Barbie Collins Young received a plate of homemade cookies this year for Christmas from her friend Beverly Jorgensen.
The way Jorgensen saw it, it was the least she could do.
Young, who works with Jorgensen, saw her friend of 11 years needed a pick-me-up this holiday season.
So she started asking around. By the time she was done asking, she had scored three outfits, a pair of shoes, a new hairdo and free eyeglasses for Jorgensen.
“She gives and gives and gives,” Young said of her buddy Jorgensen, a fellow sales consultant at PartyLite. “And she kind of loses herself in that. She needed a lift of her spirits.”
Jorgensen is a very humble woman who otherwise would not have let her do the makeover, Young said.
“But she knew that she needed it,” Young said. “So she let me do it.”
Jorgensen said she was struggling a little bit when Young came around with her idea.
“It wasn’t a rough, rough time,” she said, “but there were things I could not afford to do for myself.”
One such thing was the glasses. Jorgensen has no vision insurance and Young said she had not been to an eye doctor in about 10 years.
Snoqualmie Valley Eyecare gave Young a really good deal for Jorgensen to have a doctor’s visit, an eye exam and glasses. Young paid $100 for that.
“They were amazing,” Young said of the eye clinic. “The glasses were a really big deal.”
The rest of the makeover was a pretty big deal, too. Jorgensen already has a favorite outfit out of the three she received.
“I feel pretty grateful, pretty humbled and very appreciative,” she said.
It’s not the first time the friends have done something for each other.
In 2007, Young nominated Jorgensen for PartyLite’s Alumna Honors award, a nationwide prize.
When Jorgensen won, she received a new deck for her home. Now her deck is four years old, but her look is brand new.
“I have been very blessed,” Jorgensen said, “to have Barbie as my friend, in more ways than one.
