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Garage Sale Report 2011
St. Mary Magdalene Church held two successful garage sales this past year. Our Spring sale netted $4529.42
profit and Fall sale $5022.44 for a grand total of $9551.86. Expenses of the garage sale consist of markers,
masking tape and ads placed in the Free Press and Winnipeg Sun. The internet has opened us up to a whole
new clientele with free ads being placed on various sites such as kijjii.
Set up and sorting during the week of both sales ran efficiently with our large number of volunteers. Again
this year Waka Whitecloud and his friends were able to provide an invaluable service of help with clean up.
These young men arrive promptly and do all the heavy lifting such as loading trucks and putting tables away.
For this they are given an honorarium.
Friday evening meals were provided this year by the generosity of Norma Edwards, spring sale and Bill
Regehr, fall sale.
We continue to deliver leftover items of the garage sale to Value Village due to proximity and the willingness
of them to take all items. We have reviewed other methods of removal with no results so far.
One concern over these years’ sales is the amount of broken and outdated electronics/televisions being
donated. We have requested that people do not donate these items as the church has to take them to
electronic waste depots. In the near future there will be an added cost to dispose of these items.
Following Changes will be made to garage sales in 2012
1. Hours of Sale Friday 9am-7pm, Saturday 9am-12noon
2. In order to reduce electronic waste we will provide a list of unacceptable items to all parishioners and
groups who use the church.
3. Guides and Scouts will be asked to assist in clean up well in advance of sale.
At this time we would like to request the following dates, April 27 th /28 th be reviewed and approved for the
Spring Garage Sale 2012.
Nancy and John Chan, Garage Sale Coordinators
Primate’s World Relief & Development Fund Report 2011
Information from the National PWRDF Annual General Meeting and the Forum of the Diocesan Reps held
in Toronto November 2011 as reported by Susan Roe-Finlay, Rupert’s Land Diocesan Representative.
Some of the plans about a way forward include:
PWRDF continuing to do what it does best: Humanitarian response; and sustainable community development.
Further, to achieve these goals the staff recognized there needs to be a continued engagement of Canadian
Anglicans and financial sustainability.
Staff members hope to have a presence in each Diocese in order to get to know the people in these areas. In
Manitoba, we have been blessed with a visit by Adele Finney, the Executive Director, in the past year. As
always, such a visit brings together the Parish partners and energizes them. We are able to ask our own
questions and get immediate responses and to learn from each other.
At the Forum, we learned more about the Anglican Alliance from Sally Keeble who heads this organization,
which works out of UK. The Alliance was formed at the last Lambeth meeting to join together the outreach
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