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Fall Rummage Sale to boost funds for Auxiliary |
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Thursday, 15 October 2009 |
 By MICHELLE ZLOMKE
Chief Managing Editor
After a $65,000 donation for new hospital eqiupment, Jennie Melham Medical Center’s Auxiliary plans to use this year’s Rummage Sale income to replenish its bank account. The Auxiliary provided major funding to the hospital this year, purchasing 27 flat screen televisions, two birthing beds and two fetal monitors that will all be used in the new patient care wing at the hospital.
“I think all the volunteers understand what we do here and how important it is,” said Auxiliary president Wanda Land.
Land said, as of Tuesday, 100 volunteers had already played a role in the three-day sale at the Broken Bow Municipal Building. Doors opened at 9 a.m. Tuesday. The sale ends today (Thursday) at 2 p.m. Dozens of people gathered in the lobby of the Municipal Building Tuesday morning, filling the room while they waited for the sale to begin.
“Those that are here first know exactly what they want and they go right to it,” Land said.
Land said the twice-annual event is something the community plans on each year.
“The community starts to look forward to this, not only because they can clean out their own closets, but because they know they can get good stuff here for a good price,” Land said.
Land said this year’s sale included a lot of household items and knick knacks. Those type of things sell quickly, but there always seems to be plenty of inventory left on Thursday.
That’s especially true with clothing, she said.
“It’s down on the bottom and it rotates up by the last day,” she said. “There’s still new stuff on Thursday.”
The selection this year is good, she said.
“It’s not an extravagant amount of stuff, but it’s a lot of good stuff,” Land said. “
Land said volunteers spend a few hours Saturday before the sale and a full day Sunday and Monday working “bundle days.”
Those are the days that people bring their donated items to the Municipal Building.
Volunteers then sort, fold and organize the items, getting everything ready for Tuesday.
At the end of the sale, the goods that are left will be loaded on a truck and sent to Goodwill.
In addition to replenishing the group’s funds, Land said proceeds from the sale will continue to fund scholarships for students who enter the medical care field. |
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