Seegars Fence Co. Donates, Installs Fencing at Goldsboro Salvation Army

May 12, 2021

Published by the Goldsboro News Argus, written by Becky Barclay

The owners of Seegars Fence Company of Goldsboro wanted to start a mission project, thinking maybe they could help someone overseas in Africa or South America.

“Five years ago in a strategic plan when my brother, brother-in-law and I took over as the third generation of Seegars Fence, it was our goal to make a kingdom impact through the business,” said Ben Seegars, the company’s president. “At some point by the end of the five-year period, we knew that we wanted to have a mission project.”

But they got to looking around their hometown and found that there was much need right here. So, they decided to take on one mission project a year to help a charity in Goldsboro and Wayne County.

“There’s so many needs within 20 miles of our office that we can leverage all the expenses of traveling and maybe do more at home and help our community,” Seegars said. “Obviously, that’s closest to my heart.”

Seegars said he got the idea to help a local charity from a fence company in Tennessee, which five years ago began picking a worthy cause locally every year. The company’s team gets together and selects the project, then goes out and donates materials and labor to the cause, he said.

“This is our first year,” Seegars said. “This will be an annual event. We’re going to begin taking applications on an annual basis from worthy causes, and we’ll select one.”

The first mission project was donating and building a fence for the Salvation Army’s family store Monday.

The Salvation Army was chosen because Seegars serves on the organization’s board and knows about its need for fencing.

“This is going to be at the store,” he said. “The store is closed Saturday, Sunday and Monday. At that time, lots of people make donations, sometimes it’s more unfortunately not exactly what we want. It’s just dumped along the front of our building at the store.

“Every Tuesday when we come to work at the store, the team there has to clean all that stuff up. And a lot of it will get brought to the landfill because it’s not reusable.”

Seegars said sometimes it rains on the donations that are left when the family store is closed, and people also go by and go through it and spread it all over the place. Then it’s not usable either.

“This (fence) is going to secure the parking lot pretty much to cars, not pedestrians, where we won’t have stuff dumped out in the off time,” he said. “It will be brought in when it’s open. The fence will be locked when the store is not open.”

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