Originally published Sept. 5–
The Citrus Heights Community Marching Band is concluding its annual Fall Yard Sale this weekend, promising deals on thousands of items at prices “far under what they are really worth.”
“We make a deal on anything that we’re selling,” Assistant Band Director Carrie Turner told the Sentinel last week, highlighting items offered like appliances, antique furniture, tools, and clothes. She said 100 percent of the proceeds go to support the marching band, providing for uniforms, liability insurance and instrument maintenance.
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The football-field sized yard sale sets up shop during the first two weekends in May and September each year on Linden Avenue, near Auburn Boulevard and Interstate 80, taking up two cattle pastures on the Band program director’s property.
When the volunteer marching band kicked off its first yard sale fundraiser back in 2011, Band Program Director Kathy Cook said the group had no idea how large the event would grow, initially expecting that yard sale items from band members would dry up someday. To their surprise, the event has grown so large that Kathy, and her husband Bill, have given up raising cattle in order to dedicate storage space for the yard sale to continue to grow.
Cook said the Band gets donations throughout the year for its yard sale fundraisers, with items coming from businesses, property managers and community members. She said the May yard sale is typically larger in size, due to more donations coming in during the winter and spring.
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The all-volunteer marching band has become known for its performances at community events around the region, annually playing at the Citrus Heights Tree Lighting ceremony and conducting a flash-mob at Wal-Mart each December. Cook said the Band is growing, in part due to area schools closing their music programs, with band members currently ranging in age from as young as 7 years old, up to 85 years old.
The Fall Yard Sale will be held from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sept. 4-7 and Sept. 11-13, at 7620 Linden Ave. in Citrus Heights. Band leaders said donations can also be dropped off at that location during the yard sale, or can be scheduled by emailing CHCMB@hotmail.com.
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