The Milton-Edgewood Kiwanis Club is hosting its second fundraiser this year and hopes to raise $2,000 for local charities.
Between 8 a.m. and noon on June 6, club members will be selling a variety of goods to local residents during their annual plant and garage sale, which has become a popular shopping stop for Milton and Edgewood over the past several years.
Bedding plants and donated used items from Kiwanis club families should make for a morning of bargain shopping for both the home and garden.
A local wholesale nursery donates the plants to the Kiwanis for sale, which allows them to keep prices low.
“The plants are reasonably priced enough that people are waiting for us to open in the morning,” said Club President Bob Dockstader. “But we get a pretty good quantity…so we don’t run out.”
The rummage sale will feature buys typical of most neighborhood yard sales, but incorporates items from multiple families in a one-stop-shop.
“We get things donated from the membership and others. Clothes, exercise equipment, decorations, books, records, movies – it’s a big family garage sale.”
All proceeds from the sale, as well as all of Kiwanis’ other annual fundraising events, will go to support local charities and community services, such as food banks in Milton and Edgewood, Christmas gifts and coats to needy families, Thanksgiving turkey dinner programs, youth sports teams and trade scholarships. The club aims to raise $10,000 throughout the year to support such causes.
So far, the club has raised $4,000 from a recent golf tournament, and last year raised $2,000 at the plant sale. It hopes to exceed those proceeds this year, and will be hosting a third fundraiser this winter.
“All of that money – every dime that we take in by our fundraisers – goes into community service account, and is used to benefit our community,” Dockstader said.
“We’re the only Kiwanis club in Edgewood and Milton, and I think they appreciate the things we can do for them.”
The annual Milton Edgewood Kiwanis plant and garage sale will be located at 2908 Meridian Ave. E., in Edgewood.
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