HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1998-06-10, Page 5Lucky finds at town -wide yard sale
Yard salers started early
looking for unwanted treasures
"People start early to find
what they can."
"When we were setting up,
there were people looking in
our stuff," said Trish
MacGregor who planned to
start selling at 7 a.m.
Jennifer Kennington,
MacGregor's friend from
Toronto, also took part in the
sale and said some people
started driving by early,
looking over the tables.
That was a sign of a
serious yard saler, looking
for specific types of treasures
that might not have been
found among the children's
toys and clothes that made up
part of their sale.
Kennington said one
person stopped by looking
for 19th century pottery.
While there wasn't that
kind of treasure at
MacGregor and
Kennington's sale, Jessica
Laycox, three, found some
treasure of her own at one of
the toy tables.
Her mom, Teresa, said they
were just out for a stroll and
took the opportunity to stop
at some of the sales.
While she does head for
some of the yard sales, she
said they aren't too serious
about it. Saturday, they found
a few odds and ends they
could use.
"We just see what's out. If
we need it, we just go get it,"
she said.
While it's a chance for
some people to pick up some
items they can use, it was a
chance for MacGregor and
Kennington to sell some of
the things they no longer
needed.
MacGregor said she had a
box of odds and ends started
for quite some time; some of
the extras and duplicates that
had built since getting
BY SCOTT HILGENDORFF
Expositor Editor
It can be competitive to get
to the big ones first. It can be
frustrating to passing
motorists. It can be a way to
make more cash, to make
more room or to find
something to fill a room.
It can also be a treasure
hunt.
"There's some really
fabulous finds," said Gene
Baynham of Nixon's Hill in
Seaforth who found herself
drawn to the tables in front of
homes across the community.
She found some
cornflower glass that
matched a collection she
inherited from her mother
during Saturday's town -wide
yard sale.
The glass didn't mean
anything to its owner
anymore but Baynham had a
connection to the antique
glass that is no longer
produced.
She went into town for a
bag of potatoes but couldn't
resist stopping at a few of the
many yard sales that were
held.
She said anyone who
knows her, knows she loves
auctions and garage sales but
Saturday, she hadn't planned
on engaging in the sport. Nor
did she expect to find the
cornflower glass.
"That was a real find," said
Baynham.
And she didn't start out
early like most serious yard
salers.
Don Corbett, who had the
sale where Baynham found
the glass, started putting their
items out at 6 a.m. and by
quarter after, said his first
customers had come by.
"Officially, it wasn't open
until 8 o'clock," he said.
Northside hoping
to build parking lot
Northside United Church
hopes to install'a parkiiig'liit.
Marlen Vincent submitted
the proposal to Seaforth
Council just prior to its
meeting last Tuesday.
Clerk/administrator Jim
Crocker said he would digest
the document, and any
relevant parking and zoning
requirements for the corner
of. Goderich Street West and
Church Streets, then prepare
a report for council's next
meeting.
Northside wants to build a
lot to the east and north
sides of the church, with an
entrance off Highway 8
(Goderich Street) and exit
onto Church. The proposal
would require changing the
parallel parking on the east
side of Church Street to
angle parking.
The Ndrt side'proposal
also notes it would require a
tree being removed in the
boulevard to accommodate
the entrance, water control
on the lot done by grading
plan (no catch basins to tie
into), a curb cut on the
highway of about 25 feet,
and the sidewalk (new) may
have to be lowered to
maintain drainage.
"By changing the east side
of Church Street to angle
parking from parallel, it
would gain two to three
parking spaces but cars
would be parking over top of
the sidewalk," according to
proposal submitted by
Vincent. "This would also
require signs and maybe
paint."
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Mural may be painted
on Highway 8 building wall
Seaforth's local
architectural conservation
committee (LACAC) hopes
to have a mural painted on
the brick wall of Triangle
Discount that faces north
onto Highway 8.
Deputy clerk Cathy
Garrick told council last
Tuesday that the owner of
the building has agreed to
the idea and a downtown
merchant has donated paint
for the project. Cathy
Elliott and Cathy Pletsch
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subcommittee co-
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Garrick reported the
committee is thinking of a
picture of the original
storefront, maybe with
Seaforth people in the
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She said the committee is
looking for a local artist to
paint it, perhaps in the
$500 to $900 range.
Councillors agreed the
concept would "clean up
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Harry Laycox coaches three-year-old Jessica about how
to pay for the yard sale finds (some Disney figures) she
came across at a toy table in
across town on Saturday.
married.
Kennington said it was
also a good way to motivate
her son to get rid of some of
his toys.
By getting rid of some of
the little things, she had told
him he could get something
bigger instead with the
proceeds.
Cathy Garrick, deputy
clerk, said this year's sales
were about normal compared
to others.
There have been about four
town -wide yard sales. Thirty
people registered yard sales
one of the many sales held
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at the town hall in exchange
for having them listed on a
map available to the public.
Garrick said there were
many more sales that didn't
register to be on the map and
that people from across the
region arc drawn to the town
for the event.
"We get calls every year,"
she said. Some from people
ahead of time wanting to
know when the sale is being
held to plan to have that
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"We had phone calls from
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