TS Help needed -- date conflict!

[Danny L. Yeager]

     The Touchstone garage sale is currently set for Saturday morning, 
February 28 at the Unitarian Fellowship on Wellborn Road in College 
Station.  We just found out that's the same day as the annual Planned 
Parenthood luncheon/fund raiser.  Planned Parenthood also is having a 
reception for the luncheon speaker of Friday evening February 27.  Although 
several members of our garage sale "planning committee" would want to 
attend the luncheon and possibly the reception, none of us was aware of 
this date conflict until yesterday.  While this conflict probably won't 
reduce our number of buyers present at the sale significantly, it will 
definitely have a serious impact on the number of volunteers we have to 
help out since many of our usual volunteers are also active in Planned 
Parenthood. The sale is big and it needs many volunteers.  Right now we 
have at least three volunteers, but it would be better if we had 10 or 
so.  The date conflict may also reduce the number of items that we have to 
sell since many of our usual donors may not have time on Friday/Saturday 
morning to stop by the Fellowship Hall with their items.
      The alternative is to change our garage sale date.  We are looking 
into that possibility. However, Feb. 28 was the only date in February that 
the Unitarian Fellowship Hall was available and we have already put down a 
deposit for that date.  (We have found from our last several sales that the 
Fellowship Hall is an excellent location -- it's centrally located, big 
enough for the sale and protected from the weather.) Even assuming that it 
would be ok with the Unitarian Fellowship that we change our date without 
us losing the deposit, in March we would have to deal with there being 
spring break (when we definitely do not want to have the sale).
      Assuming that we decide to go ahead with the sale on Feb. 28, we need 
to get some idea of the number of people who will volunteer to help 
out.  We need people to help out on Friday evening Feb. 27 with 
transporting items set up (free pizza, beer, and soft drinks), on Saturday 
morning Feb. 28 at the sale especially between 7:30 and 10 AM (free 
muffins/donuts and coffee), and on Saturday afternoon for clean up and 
remaining item disposal.  If you can help out, would you please let me know 
as soon as you can and when you could.
      Thanks!

              Danny


Danny Yeager
The Touchstone
P.O. Box 2711
College Station, TX 77841-2711

www.rtis.com/touchstone/

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