The Service Club’s first semi-annual garage sale of the year held on April 6 at the Community Center was a huge success. Thank you as always to all in our community who donated items and came and shopped at the garage sale. As we’ve mentioned in earlier articles, these sales are the Service Club’s primary fund-raising events that make it possible for us to fund many other community projects, as well as a scholarship fund for local students.
Do you know what is involved in putting on these massive garage sales? It is a TON of work and is all done primarily by Service Club volunteers! These ladies (who sometimes draft family members to help too!) volunteer LOTS of time and effort, spending hours every week in the months before the sale sorting through donations and inspecting large furniture items to make sure they are gently used and something we can actually sell. Then they spend entire days before the sale – putting up signs, getting donations transported from the storage location to the sale location, setting up tables, hanging clothes, sorting goods out onto tables – anything and everything needed to have the sale itself run smoothly for our community shoppers.
And we can’t forget to thank all those who bake for & work at the bake sale held at the same time either. The bake sale funds support the same Service Club efforts to help our community.
Service Club president Donna Vuichard reported there were more than 35 volunteers working all day Thursday and Friday before this sale, including some trustees from the jail as well as some of our awesome local Coast Guard members who donated their time as well! And this doesn’t count all the time spent at home by those bakers!
So, a HUGE round of thanks to the many, many volunteers who make these garage sales happen!
The next garage sale will be Saturday, October 5, and YOUR help is needed! The Port O’Connor Community Service Club is an all-volunteer, non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the Port O’Connor community by providing support and funds for programs and events for the betterment of this community. If you are looking for a way to give back to the Port O’Connor community, come join us!
APRIL 27 is the date for the Port O’Connor Chamber of Commerce’s Crawfish Festival. The Service Club provides volunteers to assist with ticket sales and we really need some more volunteers for this. If you’d like to volunteer to help out for a couple of hours, contact Donna Vuichard at 361-237-0476 and she’ll get you signed up for a shift…and a free T-shirt!
Scholarship Program – Any student who attended Port O’Connor Elementary School and is graduating from Calhoun County High School is eligible to apply for a Service Club scholarship. Contact Donna Vuichard for more information.
Our meetings are on the first and third Thursdays of the month at the Community Center. (Enter through the rear door.) All are welcome – come check us out – we work hard, but we have fun too! Members don’t have to be full-time POC residents – all who want to help are welcome. We are always planning various programs and events and identifying needs in our community where the Service Club can help but your support is what makes it all possible.
