Sunday, May 12: Moving Day - 3 - 4 hours
We move equipment from the Shelter to the Fairgrounds. We need strong people and vehicles such as trucks and vans to transport sawhorses, clothing racks and supplies. Meet at the shelter at high noon and expect to be finished by 4 p.m. Bring work gloves.
Monday, May 13: Set-up Tables - 2 hours
The plywood for tables will arrive on Monday. We need a few strong people to help put the tables together. Meet at Kesler Hall on the Fairgrounds at 2 p.m. Bring work gloves.
Tuesday, May 14: Orientation for new volunteers - 1 hour - Brand-new volunteers - or volunteers who worked their first year last year - are especially encouraged to attend a short overview of the opportunities the sale offers for your time and efforts. Any volunteers welcome. How can your interests match our needs?
Thursday, May 16, through Sunday, May 19 - Donations Accepted at Kesler Hall
Help unload cars; sort and price items. On the weekend, all hands will be asked to help unload cars (those with able backs) and greet donors (those with less-able backs) to better manage the overflowing driveway and control the drops.
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, May 20, 21, 22, and 23: Final Sale Preparation
Organize, organize, organize; check pricing: set up check out, and learn to run the registers. We sell more when we're organized.
Friday and Saturday, May 24 and 25: Sale Days!
Help keep the place organized; move merchandise from floor to tables; run registers; help the public. Early birds begin unloading the storage trailers at 5:30 a.m. A pizza and salad lunch will be provided for volunteers around 11 a.m. each day. We will take turns. Sale is Friday from 7 a.m.-6 p.m.; Saturday 8 a.m.-6 p.m., with bag sale at 3 p.m.
Saturday Clean-up
We'll start consolidating merchandise and tearing down tables as the bag sale begins to thin (bag sale starts at 3 p.m.), but after the two long sale days, we will quit as soon as we can after 6, leaving most of the cleanup for Sunday.
Sunday, May 26: Building Clean-up, Recycling, and Giveaway!
Charities will be given a first crack at the leftovers at 8 a.m.; the public is allowed in from 10 a.m. to noon. $1 admission will be charged to enter. Then, consolidation of merchandise and dismantling of tables will occur simultaneously with the giveaway. Anything left after the giveaway is sorted into recyclables. Cardboard will need to be flattened. Equipment will be returned to the shelter, so we need trucks again and more bodies.
Monday, May 27: Building Clean-up and Recycling
Cleanup & recycling continues. Trucks are needed to return supplies to CCHS.
Tuesday, May 28: Building Clean-up and Recycling; Load Plywood on Trucks
At about 10 a.m. we need strong people to load the plywood into the truck. We'll also wrap-up the cleaning of Kesler Hall, return the remaining supplies to the shelter, the cash registers to Blum's, and the carts to Schnuck's.
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