Folks line up hours ahead of time to get into the gymnasium at Hillsdale College and get first choice of goodies at the annual rummage sale. The Women Commissioners have held this Fall event for decades as a fund raiser for scholarships and as a fun event for locals.
Students and residents donate their unwanted items and deliver them to the gym during the days before the sale. The Womens Commissioners get volunteers to accept, sort, and display items from clothing to Christmas, to electronics, to books, and anything else of value.
The sale goes on for 2 days. Most of the really good things are gone early on the first day. By noon everything is marked half price. They have a bag sale on the second day to move out as much as they can. Anything that is left over gets donated to a charitable organization.
A bevy of volunteers are there to assist in any way they can. The rummage sale is extremely well organized and is one of those things that folks around here really look forward to every year.
Judging by the amount of traffic that was seen coming and going from the gym, they must have had a very successful event. Folks were leaving with bags of stuff and some needed assistance in transporting larger items.
My friend, Aimee England, takes lots of pictures of events around the county and was kind enough to let me use these. I am not able to get to many events because of work commitments at my house, so I rely on others to help me out whenever possible. Oh, the benefits of living in a small town…
Mike Venturini
Jonesville Michigan Bed and Breakfast Innkeeper
“Life is good in Jonesville”
Hi Looking to see when this is going to held in 2018. In September sometime?