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Volume 2 | Issue 77
Thursday, January 14, 2016
Inside 4 News
‘Eggs and Issues’: Legislators give take on session.
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PHOTO BY MICAH QUINN
The Oxford Indoor Yard Sale is set for Saturday at the Oxford Conference Center.
Oxford Indoor Yard Sale celebrates seventh year BY CHANING GREEN NEWS WRITER
This Saturday from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m., the Oxford Conference Center is holding its annual Indoor Yard Sale. The event began in the Conference Center in 2009 and has steadily grown over the past seven years. People bought one of two dif-
ferent sized booths for between $30-$45 to sell their wares. Sellers keep 100 percent of their profits. There is a $2 entry fee for buyers. After the sale is complete, venders have the option of donating unsold goods to the Oxford thrift store Holding Hands. Micah Quinn is the events manager for the Oxford Confer-
ence Center and has held the position since its opening in 2004. She said the idea for the event came about when they noticed a slow in events due to the economic downturn of 2008. “It was during the recession and so no one was really planning events so the director, Hollis Green, had a great idea: Why
Bella Mia Salon provides break from daily grind.
16 Sports
don’t we create our own event?” she said. When the Indoor Yard Sale began, the Conference Center held the event several times a year, but as the economy got better, people began scheduling more events and the Conference Center began to run out of TURN TO OXFORD PAGE 6
Scruggs helps set the tone for Oxford.