Community Corner
Shoppers Scout For Deals At Community Yard Sale
Community members bought and sold items at annual sale presented by Lake Zurich Lions Club.
As luck would have it, three things on her shopping list were awaiting shopper Eileen Knapp on Saturday when she arrived at the Lake Zurich Lions Club community yard sale in Lions Park.
The sale, which featured sellers from all over the community, was held Saturday and Sunday.
“I got myself a few good deals,” said Knapp, of Lake Zurich, as she carted away a new hair dryer, a filing cabinet for her mother and a children’s bowling set that she plans to use at St. Francis de Sales School.
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Knapp scooped up her haul from a table tended by Lisa Watkins, also of Lake Zurich, who was accompanied by daughters Sara and Jessica, and her nephew, Kevin Riddel.
Watkins offered several pieces of furniture, a large TV and several home accent items. She also had a table full of clothes priced to move.
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“A lot of clothing is selling quickly,” she said, adding with two recent high school graduates in the house, the sale represented a good way to cut down on clutter. “It’s always better to do it when you can give back. It’s for a good cause.”
The cause, in this case, is academic scholarships the Lions Club awards to area students, said Jim Lumsden, a club past president who was on hand to supervise the dozen or so sellers and vendors.
Lumsden said academic and athletic performance count when the Lions Club selects scholarship recipients, but that’s not all that the club takes into consideration.
“We’re much more interested that we’re helping somebody who can really use those funds well," he said. “We’re looking for an individual who will make a good Lion one day.”
Lumsden said the sellers keep all proceeds from their sales. The Lions Club generates revenue from the community garage sale by charging a $35 fee for each vendor’s 10- by 15-foot space in the park.
“It all goes into the fund for Lions scholarships,” he said.
As the sunny afternoon sky began to darken and a rainstorm threatened, several sellers began to pack up early, promising to return Sunday.
Lumsden said he hoped many would come back to sell the rest of their stock. And, he said, he hoped many more shoppers would visit the park Sunday.
“It’s a neat opportunity for people to kind of poke around and find the oddball items,” he said.
