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+ ABC Sale - March 2
+ Be a Volunteer
+ Be a Baker
ABC Sale - March 2, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.
Mark your calendars and start looking in your Attics, Basements, and Closets!
This 40th annual event provides everyone with the best of buys and opportunities for short-term service to the church and the community. It is a wonderful way to raise funds for worthy community organizations and a great opportunity for fellowship and community. You can help to make this event a success by being a donor, a buyer, and/or a volunteer.
Terrific volunteers have made this wonderful celebration of good will a reality for the community for the past 39 years. Last year over $23,000 from the sale was donated to a variety of community services and organizations. Whether you participate to raise badly needed funds; to experience the excitement, tradition, and fellowship that is part of this sale; to empty your closets, drawers, or attics; or to shop for an incredible variety of merchandise at bargain basement prices; YOU make it all happen.
Volunteers serve in donating, sorting, arranging, picking up, pricing, and selling merchandise, and in preparing the building for, and cleaning up after, the sale. The return each year of our volunteers from prior years really makes the sale possible and successful. Please check in the Help Wanted section of "Crossings" for specific opportunities to join this enthusiastic and capable group of parishioners.
We will need volunteers in all departments, a few vans and trucks (with drivers) for pick-ups, a strong and hardy clean up crew, and possibilities for storage until the sale week. Peggy Pratt (919)493-8059 and Helen Ayres (919)967-6571 are co-chairs for this year's sale. We are looking for one or two individuals who would be willing to serve as assistant co-chairs. We are still in the process of recruiting department chairs for men's clothing (a team would be great), for the garden shop, and a co-chair for children's toys. Please don't hesitate to call Helen or Peggy if you have a specific interest in an area and can give even a few hours to help.
The Sale Departments are Accessories, Adult Recreation, Bake Shop, Books, Children's Toys, Children's Clothing, Men's Clothing, Women's Clothing, Home Furnishings, Garden Shop, Linens, Treasures, and White Elephant. Other committees using volunteers are Publicity, Sorting, Parking, Cleanup, Host and Hostesses, Carol Woods, and Carolina Meadows.
The Social Ministry Committee is now soliciting requests for funds from charitable organizations and will make recommendations to the vestry for disbursement of the sale proceeds. A subcommittee of the ABC Sale chairs and representatives of the Social Ministry Committee will be receiving requests through February 24. Anyone wishing to make such a request may submit it to the parish office in the care of the ABC subcommittee. For more information, call Sandra McClasky.
Please complete this information and turn into the parish office as soon as possible.
Name
Phone
Times you are available
Monday, Feb. 25______(am/pm)
Tuesday, Feb. 26______(am/pm)
Wednesday, Feb. 27______(am/pm)
Thursday, Feb. 28______(am/pm)
Friday, March 1______(am/pm)
Saturday, March 2______(am/pm)
Department in which you would like to volunteer
___ Accessories
___ Adult Recreation
___ Bake Shop
___ Books
___ Children's Clothing
___ Children's Toys
___ Cleanup (Saturday afternoon)
___ Garden Shop
___ Home Furnishings
___ Linens
___ Men's Clothing
___ Treasure Room
___ White Elephant
___ Women's Clothing
Other ways you can help
___ Work where help is needed
___ Pick up donations
___ Deliver posters
___ Setup Sunday afternoon
___ Ceanup Saturday afternoon
___ Provide early storage space
Your specialties are needed for the ABC Sale Bake Shop -- your treasured cakes, breads, pies, cookies, candies, preserves, and canned goods.
Please return this information to the parish office by February 15 or call Peggy Pratt.
Name
Phone
Foods you can prepare and Quantity
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