Tennis rummage sale

Twice during the winter season, the Tennis club at Venture Out sponsors and runs a rummage sale. They take donations from residents on Thursday, and on Friday, they run the sale.

The furniture is displayed on the patio outside the tennis courts. Two tennis courts are set up with all the non-furniture items that are available for sale. There is quite a line up in the minutes before the gates to the courts open as people prepare to find their treasures in the sale!

We don't usually get there before the gates open, but we did last Friday so joined the line pretty much at the end. We found a few things that we could use - some duplicates of items that we have in the rig so we don't have to move things back and forth from our "summer home" (Gracie) to our "winter home" (the park model).

The proceeds from the sale go back to the Social Board and serve to fund projects for any of the clubs in the park. They may go to projects that the tennis club has, but they may also go for another club -- glass arts, woodworking, electronics, bocce ball, horseshoes, etc. Each club identifies its needs and wants to the Social Board and the Board decides how the funding gets spent. It means that shopping helps out Venture Out, so we're actually serving our community by shopping! Yeah, right, that's why we do it!!!