Northwind 8/24/06

Posted by David Engels 
 

 

Whatcom County North Rotary

Northwind

 

August 24, 2006

 

 

In lieu of our regular meeting at Northwood Hall, everyone was asked to meet at the Ferndale Boys and Girls Club to assist in setting up the Auction/Garage Sale scheduled for Friday August 25th and Saturday August 26th.

 

Sack Lunches were provided by Haggen Foods (thank you Paul Cooley).  President Ken recommends that if you're so inclined you can donate $10 to Happy Bucks for the fabulous lunches.

 

All of the donated items were loaded into three semi-trailers provided by Ludtke-Pacific Trucking, Inc., (thank you Lex) and on Thursday we began unloading the trailers and setting the items up for display. 

 

There were many people who worked very hard on Thursday and Friday getting everything set up and also again on Saturday when the garage sale items were sold.   We had lots of volunteers, but a sincere thanks go out to Rose, Maureen, Tim, Paul, Jack, Dick, Brian, Bill, Kathryn, Julie, Lex, Dan, Dan, Scott, Lori, Ken, Sharon, Rick, Gary, Chuck, Marlene, Shirley (and at least one of her daughters Cheryl) and Kathy, who worked long and tireless.  There were also several spouses who worked very hard and put in long hours: Fontene Donahue, Kris Grace, Bob Moles, Tone Piper, Mark Sexton and Sue Richardson.  Sorry for anyone I missed. 

 

Tim Carpenter provided T-shirts (with the Rotary logo) for everyone who worked on Saturday and I'm told those are to be washed and returned to the club for the next event we hold.

 

We started with three semi-trailers full of garage sale items and at the end of the day about a third of a trailer full of un-sold items went to Value Village.  It was a great effort by everyone and Whatcom County North Rotary sincerely thanks you.

 

Next year we will be twice as good.  Julie hopes to have to have the numbers together soon and will let us know how we did. 

 

Editor:  David Engels