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Vol. 3 Edition 16
THURSDAY, MAY 7, 2015
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Yard sale advice: hold your ground
By Jim Blake jim@chathamvoice.com
Bruce Corcoran/The Chatham Voice
Charlene Peel, a teacher at John McGregor Secondary School, plants a big kiss on a goat as part of a Feed the Children fundraiser at the school on Friday. The school held a charity fundraiser this spring, which culminated Friday with teachers and a few students smooching a goat. By the end of the event, the goat had chapped lips, and the school had raised $1,350.
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To some people, yard sales are a way to make money; for others they are a way to clear clutter from their homes or garages. To Ina Edy and her daughters, it’s about fun, family time and bonding. But it’s not for sissies. Ina and her daughters Karen Labadie, Cindy Thomas and Kim Breedon are a fun foursome who plot their yard-saling adventures with the precision of a military mission and the fun of a water balloon fight. Ina started the tradition when she owned a cottage near Conestoga Lake north of Kitchener. “We would put everyone’s name in a hat and draw names. We went looking for the ugliest item we could find and you gave it to whoever’s name you had. Part of the trick was hiding what you bought from the others.” One year, the four assembled back at the cottage to find they had all
found the same item; each had a poorly made, wooden tulip. “One after another the girls pulled them out and we had a great laugh,” Ina said. “They were hideous,” Kim, the baby of the family, said. ‘The paint didn’t match and it’s like they were just meant to be bad. We couldn’t say anything when we bought them but, wow. We wouldn’t even take them home, so we left them at the cottage.” On another trip to a small town, the group had been on a morning’s run (complete with lots of coffee) when they found themselves nowhere near any kind of washroom. “Cindy had to go, so we gathered around the van and she used a pot she bought that morning,’ Karen laughed. “ We had to drive out to the country to empty it before we started for home.” Cindy confesses to still having the pot, although it’s found another use in her garage. Continued on page 2
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