disabilities in belmont law fam watertown and surrounding communities the company i guess was the organization was founded in one nine hundred seventy three and this new business gives the best at peppermint and actual work experience or two options program and the we do things from behave people we support people with behavior problems people who are in their own apartments in the community and we do any type of residential support that they need in terms of banking and overall care for them residentially that's and then we started this program three months ago we we had for a year we had built up this new options employment  people just go talk a little more about it as she runs it it's an employment part of the agency where we help people find jobs and climate and the store is an area that we wanted to develop so people have the ability to work in it and learn retail and we can also be part of the community and have people know who we are and establish for you since it's such a it's a full service so organization for people with special needs from housing right through to work experience you know a lot of hard a lot of our goods come from local vendors and from people who live in the community some people have come and said you know i make this great product and i'd like to see if you would be able to sell it in your store the other major place of our product comes from is our other day service which is a service in watertown and they do a lot of crafts and creations themselves and then they  bring them over to the store and we sell them in the stores that they had made and we had met with them and we chose pieces that we thought would fit in with the store and that we could we already reorder them are only open like three months people been very receptive in the town to the things that we sell the earth from local vendors and from especially from the people that we support a lot of people buy a lot of the merchandise from people that we that make it grow it was it is always a place that we look towards we've had residences in belmont for many many years that's primarily the place that we got started in terms of some of our houses and so having something close to where our folks live is important because they are part of the community and and so having me at day program that was also just made sense you know it was a place that would be an easy commute for folks to get there and then they would be able to find jobs and to you know reach out to the community within said which would be you know unique him crafted in some cases based on some of the things that i've seen here very very much of it so one of the things that we always keep in mind is that this really is a unique location and  because some of the folks that we support may not be able to do a full shift like a six hour shift and we're able to have the opportunity to have them do a couple of hours here and there to learn things and get paid for the things they're learning in terms of inventory stocking and learning the computer register and customer service museum the only external support we had was to for the computer register because it's pretty high tech you know that we sat down and figured based on the skill level of the individuals what they could do what they would want to learn what their goals were and then we also hired certain people just with community who are working and have learnt the skill and that's how we started to to open we just opened like all earning it together and then just can i are responsible for the ordering where monday through friday ten a m to six p m and open saturday also from ten to six and occasional sundays depending on if it's a holiday season and or are you know if it's in during our first couple of weeks of whole brand new stuff but there are certain things now we're going to be changing seasons that will probably go into a sale section for winter merchandise like this certain things that really you know not making a holiday as much as we did a lot of our holiday