Preservation Group Wants Old Items For Its Fund-Raiser

Thu., Feb. 10, 2000

By Mike Prager mikeprager15@gmail.com (509) 459-5454

The Spokane Preservation Advocates, a group dedicated to saving history, couldn’t have come up with a more appropriate concept for a fund-raiser.

The group is planning a garage-type sale of old stuff this spring.

While the date for the sale is more than two months away, members of the group have started soliciting items for the event.

Money will go to support preservation causes.

The sale will be held April 29 at the Masonic Building at 28th and Grand Boulevard.

“We need lots of things to make the sale successful,” said the group’s flier.

Suggestions include furniture, antiques, electronics, clothing, crafts, appliances, office equipment, kitchen ware, garden items and sporting goods.

The group is calling it the First Annual SPA Garage and Collectible Sale.

The advocates want to put money behind important history projects.

Earlier this year the group gave $1,000 to pay for consultants who will write a historic nomination for the Corbin-Turner Heritage Garden in Pioneer Park.

The nomination is expected to lead to a listing of the gardens on the Spokane Register of Historic Places and encourage renovation of two lost residential gardens as cultural landscapes.

Anyone who wants to donate to the April sale should save items at their home or contact an SPA sale committee member.

The committee members are Susan Winchell, 624-5665; Marilyn Grossman, 624-5618; Cathy Stocks, 927-8148; Mary Jo Faulhaber, 624-3034; and Linda Yeomans, 456-3828.

Committee members Yeomans and Grossman have agreed to store items in advance of the sale. Grossman cannot begin accepting items until March.

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