SEQUIM — Need some collectors bone china, an unused inflatable kayak, an upright freezer, house plants or a $1 slightly used hardback book?
How about some linen, household furniture, a chain saw, knickknacks, CDs, DVDs, even a stereo record player?
Those are just a tiny fraction of the thousands of items volunteers with the Sequim Senior Activity Center have stuffed into otherwise empty commercial space, two suites on the east side of the parking lot at 990 E. Washington St., Bell Creek Plaza, adjacent to QFC supermarket.
The sixth annual benefit sale for the Sequim senior center opens to members only today, when it will run from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
People can sign up to become members; applications are available for $35 a year.
The sale will be open to the public from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
It is the largest senior center sale ever in more than 8,000 square feet, said center President Margaret Cox and Vice President Ray Bentsen, who is the sale’s chairman.
“It’s very possible we will have post-sales based on the amount of items we have received so far,” Bentsen said, adding that there were too many to keep track of the number.
Cox and Bentsen said donations were more plentiful than ever this year.
“I think the first day is just going to make it manageable,” Cox said with a chuckle.
Center volunteers hope to cash out with more than $20,000, the amount generated by sales last year to benefit the center that now has about 1,500 members.
Money from the sale also goes to two $1,000 scholarships for graduating Sequim High School students.
For more information, contact the Sequim Senior Activity Center at 921 E. Hammond St. in Sequim, phone the center at 360-683-6806 or visit www.sequimseniorcenter.org.
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Sequim-Dungeness Valley Editor Jeff Chew can be reached at 360-681-2391 or at jeff.chew@peninsuladailynews.com.
