On Saturday, May 16, the RC of Burton-Middlefield came up with another fun and successful project. We partnered with Goodwill of Northeast Ohio and collected gently used items from community members.
The Goodwill supplied a large covered trailer plastered with splashy media all over and dropped it off at the parking lot of Century Village in Burton, OH, just off the square. Through advertising and word of mouth donators by the dozen came by and dropped off gently used clothing, toys, stuffed animals, small lamps and appliances and many other knick-knacks that they no longer needed and we filled the trailer almost three quarters full, which turned out to be an amazing amount of stuff.
The arrangement is that Goodwill then takes it to their warehouse and re-packs it in large bins. The club receives $70 per bin. As this process takes some time we do not have an accounting yet but whatever BMR ends up with will be both a “plus” and an easy project. A Goodwill driver arrived back at the collection sight at 12 PM, hooked up the trailer and drove off. Doesn’t get much easier than that and those who donated were glad to do some “decluttering”.
PDG Bob Johnson
Secretary - BMR