Abbotsford’s Rain-or-Shine Sale on Saturday, May 27

By Pat Goyeche

Excitement is in the air at Abbotsford Seniors Centre as we ready for our big fundraising event –we are again participating in the Great Glebe Garage Sale on Saturday, May 27. We have a wide array of quality donations for sale, including art, elegant treasures, jewellery and flea-market items. To ensure a successful day, we will be selling both indoors and outdoors at this Rain-orShine Sale!

This year will prove to be a hard one for Abbotsford programming and services as we work to offset a significant loss of municipal sustainable funding. This sale will help. Thanks to our many friends, members and volunteers who have donated and organized items such as women’s clothing, books, jewellery, cards, household items and decorative items. Without your generosity and hours of work at sorting and pricing the donations, we would not have such an amazing array of goods to sell.

We hope to lure customers inside where most of our merchandise will be. Flea-market items will be for sale in our large first-floor multipurpose room. High-end jewellery will be in the lounge and the dining room will be filled with elegant treasures and vintage items. Our regular array of women’s clothing will be in Dorothy’s Boutique and the sunroom will be packed with books for you to peruse.

Artwork, small furnishings and extra women’s clothing will be outside along with some costume jewellery. We can process Visa, MasterCard and debit on sale day, or you can use cash. Please bring your own bags to take away purchases. Our doors will open to the public at 9 a.m.

For those who have items to donate to Abbotsford, please do so promptly so volunteers have time to prepare them for sale. We are open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and would very much appreciate your quality donations.

Abbotsford is your community support centre for adults 55+. We are the community programs of The Glebe Centre Inc., a charitable, not-for-profit, organization which includes a 254-bed, long term care home. Find out more about our services by dropping by 950 Bank Street (the old stone house) MonFri 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., telephoning 613-230-5730 or by checking out all The Glebe Centre facilities and community programs on our website www.glebecentre.ca

Pat Goyeche is coordinator of community programs at Abbotsford.

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