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«Ys.etrin.I. o. as. 'Me roof of Henry Street Public School wll oe reshinxgteu. ls e ye.Rtrg teer oras a9Bu L Wa e îliam Prouse of Whitby Township had a barn raising at his farmlstwc ,ne cusme, a a ys w1fls. Btwiat gooUU *a ou can buy a Hotpoint electric iron at George M. Rice's hardware store for $4.50, with a Mother'sDaypreeltfyol don'tpick itout yourseui * G.year guarantee. e htlw. otofc aeae ndwtw htY d? you knowyon can'tgive away record albums these John Ard replaces AIe htlw spa ffc aeakri ontw htY 1 1 Whitby Free Press, Wednesday. May 6. 1993, Page 7 . . . . .~. *. . *.*....*. .. ...... Wi h Our7 *sthe season Yard sale day. The sun cornes up, cloudy and yawning, shivering in the morning dew. Buds on the trees grunt and strain. First the garage door. Grunt. Heave. iàft. Grunt sorne mnoreItis one of those things, he thinke, that mnust one day selon befixed. Finally something snaps on the inside of the door. The hinged panels bend where they are supposed te bend. The door cornes up, up, up. Revealingmany, many boxes of stuff. How many boxes of stufi? A yard sale. Maybe two yard sales. Many, many boxes. First what ya'gotta do is carry ail out those boxes. Grunt, strain, lift. No sweat. It is 7: 15 aye er,too cold for sweat. Then the big stuif. Water heater. Dresser. Another dresser. End tables, coffee table, metal shelves, closet doors. Pictures. Framnes. Macrame. Wiclcer. Linen. Liots and lots of linen. Imagine. AUl this stuff fromn a gara ge. He assembles makeshift tables frorn particle board and old closet doors. By 8 eh? en? he has scribbled out signs, posting thern at four key intersections. (He forgets about them until Monday at ý9:45 p.Tn. Then, right after writing the very sentence you are reading, he upsin his car and hastens te take 'em down. A good yard saenghbour always takes down signs.) The first custorners show up at 8:30. Ay emm. Yard sale custemers corne in four varieties: cheap, tire kickers,rolling stop andkids. Kids don't buy. But if you put a lot of ugly stuf on a shelf marked «Free Mother's ay gifts» they wilI take away a lot withoutbeingasked. Rolling stop types never buy either. They don't even bring the vehicle to a stop. One drives, slowly, while the passengers leaps. out, does a quick pass through ail tables, and jumps bac in the still.moving vehicle. This couple has watched one toomany IndianaJonesmxovies. Tire kickers pick at everything. They unfold linen. Mix Up variety baskets. Switch price tags. Ask the price of anything without atag. And sorne with. Then leave. Cheap people divide the marked priceby four, then sneer. DONALD MOTOR SALES, DUNDAS AND ASII STIIEETS, 1937 Who oesbuyLetus rtur to atuday ornng.This garage was bwilt in 1929 by Threadgold Brothers, and frcm 1937 to 1966 it was a car «NheoosueuseuftSaUdYoing. dealership.operated by Harry Donald. It aise served for a time as Whitby~s bus terminal. It is "Cold.» I now occupieci by Snap Services Lmtd htyAhv ht "No rain nice breeze.» "Who cares? YW take a buck for this?» "Gimniefifty cents." "Deal.»10 YEARS AGO One ou le ye hé ighttrak sereo Thy ceck he&Dor the Wednesday, May 4, 1983 edition of the prie. We~lbeack»thysa. Sre.WHITBY FREE PRESSj& Nriext dy th ae back,»te a.hS tmeiheater os Twenty year-old Jim Spratley of Brooklin received a silver medal at a rifle shooting meet fathr-i-law tae yor pck, n tw.* Pupils of West Lynde Public School has raised $9,000 for playground equipnxent. uTakthjtysayDady.e The Spitfire Band will play its big band music at Iroquois Park on June 4. uSur.» *Forer Trono Male eafshocey paye Edde Sackasouest sp seaker at a minor 1 1 1 ---