Another Wonderful Awesome Sale!

It is easy to refer to the LUC’s Awesome Sales as “The Miracles on Millwood”.

Indeed, the hundreds of hours spent on sorting, packaging, storing, transporting, setting up, selling, packing up and passing
forward the unsold goods clearly demonstrates the dedication and commitment of the staff involved.

Equally amazing is that for 23 years, these twice-yearly events are both great outreach projects and community service events
for people throughout the GTA.

Donors include people who are:

1. selling because of a need to downsize their house
2. leaving their homes due to medical reasons
3. selling because of current very high GTA real estate prices and
4. wanting to declutter or cull the extra items they possess

From January to early May, LUC volunteers have undertaken to pick up or deliver furniture to over 70 destinations.
What a community service!

We know that people come to shop from all over the GTA and beyond, to get the best bargains in Toronto.  Radical hospitality!

Our LUC Awesome Sales also provide:

1. a truck load of excellent unsold furniture to support Habitat for Humanity,
2. 2 truck loads of other unsold items for the Cerebral Palsy organization
3. soft covered books for the patients at Sunnybrook Health Centre,
4. hard-covered books for patients at Women’s College,
5. specially-selected books for the Book Sale at Victoria College
6. needed clothing for the Eastminster U C, Yonge Street Mission and the Christian Resource Centre
7. various needed items of furniture and housewares to go to newly-arrived families in Thorncliffe and Flemingdon areas AND
8. a wonderful sense of fellowship, common purpose and achievement for those who work at the Sales.

There are several impressive stats noted below.   More importantly, it is the welcoming warm, friendly volunteers who comprise the greatest single element for the success of “The Miracle on Millwood”.

Thank You to all who donated, attended or worked at this May 12th/13th Awesome Sale!

We do hope to see you and to work with you again at the October 13th and 14th “Miracle own Millwood”.

George Hurst and Bob Lister