Dateline: June 14, 2007

35 garage sales to be held this Saturday

Bargain shoppers will be in for a treat during the second annual “Trash to Treasures” citywide garage sale to be held in Clarendon and nearby communities this Saturday, June 16.

Thirty-five individual garage sales are scheduled to be held. A complete description of each sale is printed in this week’s Big E Classifieds, and a map of the sales is on the last page of this week’s Enterprise.

The Clarendon Enterprise and A Fine Feathered Nest, Inc., have teamed up to sponsor “Trash To Treasures,” which was the idea of Ashlee Estlack and Chriss Clifford.

The sale was intended to just be in the City of Clarendon, but demand last year led the Enterprise and A Fine Feathered Nest to agree to expand the event to other locations in Donley County. This year’s event includes sales in Howardwick and Lelia Lake.

“We hope to attract several people from out of town to shop at the sales and to patronize our local businesses,” Estlack said. “We’re also happy to see some non-profit organizations taking advantage of the opportunity that ‘Trash to Treasures’ presents.”

“Trash to Treasures” is being promoted in several area newspapers and with airtime on KEFH and KLSR radio.

Clifford sees widespread participation in “Trash To Treasures” as a way to encourage people to think about something before they toss it out. In fact, her company has its own line of products that are “Too Good To Be Threw.”

“I’m interested in the whole ecology of the idea and encouraging recycling of old items,” Clifford said.