The New Boston Community Yard Sale is coming on June 6, and it’s a great way to clean out your attic, meet your neighbors, and make a little extra cash on the side.
From the Portsmouth Daily Times, on May 24, 2009 …
Community Yard Sale Planned in NB
Ryan Scott Ottney
PDT Staff WriterThe Village of New Boston is sponsoring its first Community Yard Sale June 6, as a way of encouraging residents to meet their neighbors while also showing off the village to other communities.
The idea was brought to village council by New Boston resident Bryce Flowers, who participated in similar activities for 15 years in his former community near Toledo, Ohio. He said it was a much bigger community, and together more than 30,000 people attended the event over a two-day festival in 1995.
“What I’m hoping is going to happen is all the community will join together and have yard sales; invite the other outside communities in, to get to know New Boston as it is today. There are several groups of people working to better the community, and we would like to invite people to see that,” Flowers said.
Any resident of the village interested in participating can simply set up their yard sale in front of their home June 6, between the hours of 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. There is no cost to residents, and no license is required. New Boston Mayor James Warren will distribute handbills next week to inform residents about the upcoming community event.
“It’s our hope that the yard sale will help people clean out their house for spring cleaning. Also, in their busy life maybe they missed talking to their neighbors, and getting to know their neighbors, and having a good old time,” Flowers said.
Aside from cleaning out their attic, the Community Yard Sale also puts a little money in residents’ pockets.
“We’re hoping that businesses will join us and do little sales in their parking lots. We’re hoping that churches and other organizations will join us and do some cooking and do some fundraising for their organization through some food, or at the yard sale,” Flowers said.
Flowers encouraged community involvement and said the community Yard Sale June 6 will be the first of what he hopes will be an annual event.RYAN SCOTT OTTNEY can be reached at (740) 353-3101, ext. 235, or by e-mail at pdtwriter@ryanscottottney.com.