Photograph by Robert Scheer
Fauneil Smith left, and Cathi Khuong sort through items to be sold in the city wide garage sale.
By ANNE GELHAUS
More than 600 Sunnyvale residents and community groups are getting a jump on Earth Day by participating this weekend in the fifth annual Citywide Garage Sale sponsored by the Department of Public Works.
"The event is designed to increase community awareness of how we purchase, use and dispose of materials," said Dorlene Russell, a spokeswoman for the department's Waste Management Division. "Part of the plan was to hold the garage sale around Earth Day."
This year, Earth Day is April 22, and the garage sale is set for April 20-21. Registered participants will be selling used clothing, furniture, toys and other items from their homes or businesses. In past years, Russell said, some residents have compiled their wares and had one big neighborhood sale, while members of various community groups have donated items for sale to benefit their organizations. Participants keep all profits, and the city pays for advertising.
Sunnyvale merchants are also lending a hand to the event: Goodwill Industries has donated clothing from its Washington Avenue store for use in advertising displays, and the Coldwell Banker/Fox & Carskadon real estate agency has offered participants the use of its "open house" signs to lead shoppers to them.
Local 7-Eleven stores will have available lists of garage-sale sites, and the Sunnyvale Chamber of Commerce, 499 S. Murphy Ave., will give away city maps.
This article appeared in the Sunnyvale Sun, April 17, 1996.
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