Peninsula Services, a local nonprofit agency supported in part by the United Way, announced that its ServMart division has moved its office and janitorial supply stores to new locations in Bremerton and on Whidbey Island.

ServMart’s parent organization, Peninsula Services, is a non-profit agency dedicated to supporting persons with disabilities in Washington state through rehabilitation, training and placement services. Peninsula Services has a wide range of employment, job training and work programs in place throughout Puget Sound, including grounds maintenance, vermicompost supply and several local retail operations.

ServMart operations were developed with the intent of reducing or eliminating the need to rely on tax dollars or public support in providing quality programs to persons with disabilities.

Many of ServMart’s products also meet the requirements for the federal government’s JWOD program, which helps to create employment opportunities for persons who are blind or severely disabled. This means that federal agencies that are required to purchase through JWOD procurement now have a readily-accessible local supplier in ServMart.

ServMart is opening up a new location at 1317 Arsenal Way in Bremerton (the old Rhino Lining site), just outside the Bremerton Naval Shipyard in downtown Bremerton. A secondary location is opening up on Whidbey Island. Both locations opened June 1. The new locations provide convenient access for the local community, as they are the only major office and janitorial supply stores in this area of Bremerton or on Whidbey Island, respectively. Servmart also offers online ordering at www.servmart.org and free local delivery on orders of $50 or more.

The new locations allow the stores, which have been supplying the local military bases for the last several years, to open their doors to the local public.

“Our goal is to offer customers the same products, prices and service they’d get at Staples or Office Depot, but with the benefit of knowing that all their purchases go to a good cause,” explained ServMart General Manager Howard Gile.

Peninsula Services provides an array of employment and rehabilitative services to the disabled in Washington. The agency’s retail operations include a gift and garden store on Bay Street in Port Orchard (soon to relocate to downtown Bremerton); a latte stand in Bremerton at the WorkSource offices on Sylvan Way; vermicompost fertilizer available locally under the brand name of Kitsap EZEarth; landscape maintenance services offered throughout Puget Sound; and ServMart.

ServMart’s Bremerton store can be contacted at (360)377-3707. Call Andrea Johnston at (360) 373-1446 for additional information.