Our Annual Lions Garage Sale - week ending Sat 6 Jun 2020 **cancelled/deferred**

Apr 2020 Magrath - We are unable to hold our traditional community garage sale this year due to the Covid-19 Pandemic. Instead we urge any who can to donate cash directly to the organization of your choice to support those in need at this time. Traditionally funds raised at the Lions Garage Sale have been used for local club projects. Hopefully we will be able to restart this project in spring 2021.

How? in person to Lion Roger at Magrath Pharmacy or etransfer to treasurer@magrathlions.com or to another worthy cause of your choice ..

Apr 2020 Magrath - We are unable to hold our traditional community food drive this year due to the Covid-19 Pandemic. Instead we urge any who can to donate cash directly to the organization or church of your choice to support those in need at this time. Traditionally we have sent your donations to the Lethbridge Food Bank and a portion to the local school lunch program. Hopefully we will be able to restart this project next Apr 2021.

• https://lethbridgefoodbank.ca/donate-now/
• or another worthy cause of your choice

See you next year! 

Magrath, AB Update - *new* this year - extended hours! This year our community garage sale will be set up on Thu evening and then be open to Public on Fri evening from 5-8pm as well as on Sat morning from 8am-noon at the north end garage door at the Magrath Ice Arena. See you all there!  

We will firm up the dates and plans at our Jan 2019 meeting: but coming up this year ..

• Community Food Drive 22-27 Apr 2019
• Lion Club Garage Sale Fundraiser May 2019
• Lions Park Playground Upgrades Spring 2019
• Community No Cost Clothing Event Aug 2019
• Community Christmas Box Collections Nov 2019
• Others?

Magrath, AB Donations Accepted Here .. Thanks! Our month of collections for upcoming annual Lions Garage Sale begins..:). See magrathlions.com/news/garage-sale-2018 page for further details.

The next meeting of the Magrath Lions Club will be held Wed 24 May 2017 at Magrath's Cafe. Prior meeting minutes have been posted. The annual Magrath Lions Garage Sale Fundraiser is scheduled for Sat 27 May 2017.

Lethbridge, AB Sat 27 May 2017
 Sign in 11:00 AM Walk Start 12:00 PM
 Walk Location: Henderson Park @ The Gunnery Picnic Shelter Lethbridge, Alberta

• Organisation: Lions Clubs of Southern Alberta
• City: Lethbridge, Alberta
• Contact: Lion Bill Brown
• Phone 403-942-1677
• Email: brownwj@shaw.ca

source: walkfordogguides.com/locations/walk.cfm?ID=944

Do YOU have STUFF? Sure you do! You could donate some of that STUFF to the Magrath Lions Club Garage Sale and then come by to buy some new exciting STUFF!

Drop offs: starting Sat 16 May 2014 at 'old Home Hardware' building we will be collecting your items for donation ..
see Lion Tracie at Roosters or Lion Roger at the Magrath Pharmacy
   ** and then **
Sale: Our annual Lions Community Garage Sale .. will be held Sat 30 May 2015 from 8-noon INSIDE at the former/vacant Home Hardware building .. the 'old Home Hardware' (behind Roosters). Many thanks to Jay for letting us use this building again this year! See you all there!
 
Thanks to everyone who have so willingly donated items for us to share with Magrath in the past. Thanks to the Lions and Leo Kids who help price and organize and sell said items, and to the Lions who prepare flyers to distributed around Magrath. The town sign is booked to simply advertise: "Have items to donate? Contact a member of Magrath Lions Club (magrathlions.com) for pickup [from Sat May 16th through Fri May 29th for Lions Garage Sale on the 30st May 2015 at the back of Roosters .. Want to help? See Roger at Pharmacy or Tracie at Roosters to volunteer .. ] Need to shop? See you Sat 30 May 2015 8-noon!" .. 

Thank you Magrath! Past Lions Community Garage Sales have been well stocked and well attended with donations raised going toward our many Magrath Lions Club Projects! Lots of people got neat stuff to 'treasure' and/or 'recycle'. Yay to all. Have a great summer!

It took a week to set up and a week to clear out, but overall the event was a great success! Collection week went very smoothly. Being open the Sat before and Mon-Fri at lunch-hours turned out to be a nice way to do it. We had many more great donations this year and being able to hold and set up the event indoors was a great blessing. We borrowed 10 long tables from Duane at Keyline and still filled up the entire home hardware building with great items for the day of the sale. Thanks to everyone who so willingly donated! Thanks to all the garage sale-ers and helpers at the event. Everything seemed to proceed quite smoothly. Our pricing policy took a little while for customers to get used to, but we got some good positive feedback on how it went. Clean up after the event also went fairly smoothly on Sat and continued on throughout the following week over lunch-hours and as time permitted. After all the sales, we still boxed up most items - about 30 boxes of clothing, 20 boxes of books and games, and 40 boxes of housewares/misc items were picked up by the Diabetes Society on Thu at 10am to go to Lethbridge. Some of the bulkier unsold items were driven to Cardston for donation by Lion Shauna. The tables were returned Thu and we swept out the building. The final larger 'odds and sods' items were moved out the following Sat and a single van load of dump worthy items taken to our local facility. We prepared a thank you letter for Jay Mackenzie at Roosters and returned his keys to him on Mon 9 Jun 2014.

Total proceeds this year were just over $1300. Setup started Sat 24 May 2014. Sale was held Sat 31 May 2014. Cleanup week ended Sat 7 Jun 2014. Great Job Everyone!

What did you miss? See https://plus.google.com/105371412002787304693/posts/e1Sesyt4DFj