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Trail leads to your door Community-wide garage sale event is coming to Maitland Melissah Comber
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he gaudy, gilded and glamorous will be up for grabs in Maitland and Cessnock in October, when a new initiative which sees households take part in a community-wide garage sale, rolls out. The local campaign was launched at Maitland Town Hall last week, with Maitland MP Robyn Parker joining Mayor Peter Blackmore and cofounder of Garage Sale Trail, Darryl Nichols, in encouraging residents to sign up. “Garage Sale Trail’s aim of reducing waste and reusing items that otherwise might end up on our roadsides or in landfill is a very important one,” Ms Parker said. “It will encourage us to think about how we can live more sustainably.” The first trail was held in 2010 in Bondi, born from a desire to reduce illegal dumping. Participation numbers skyrocketed in the following years, with 3,500 garage sales registered last year. “It was only ever meant to be local,” founder Darryl Nichols explained. “But there was such a high level of interest and engagement in the process that we went national.” Last year’s event involved 150,000 participants, both as sellers and buyers, with the average household making almost $300, and featured not only old VHS and kid’s toys, but high-ticket items such as a gold U2 record signed by all four members and antique items such as a horse cart. Mr Nichols said that the day not
facelift for court Around $1.1 million will be spent on a range of upgrades for the Maitland courthouse to revamp the 117- year-old heritage-listed building. The new funding, which was announced last week, will pay for the replacement of the roof, carpet and underground pipes and upgrade the air conditioning. Improvements to disabled access and fire safety and aesthetic works are also part of the planned works.
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Darryl Nichols, Cr Peter Blackmore and MP Robyn Parker launching the Garage Sale Trail in Maitland on Thursday
only aims to encourage the recycling of household goods, but also to get people talking to their neighbours to
make new community connections. The Garage Sale Trail will be held on Saturday October 26.
For more information or to register a garage sale, head to www. garagesaletrail.com.au.
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