Every year, typically on the first weekend of June, GMCA supports a neighborhood garage sale. "Supports" means that GMCA encourages neighbors to hold a multi-address sale on Friday and Saturday. There are various justifications such as cutting down on traffic on the hill by combining everyone's garage sale into one sale; or reducing the abandoned signs left on posts and poles. All of this is certainly true, but the bottom line is that everyone wants to make more money and/or get rid of more stuff!
To support the neighborhood garage sale, GMCA volunteers ... 1. collate and publish the addresses and sale item lists from all sales that make a submission - the "flier" 2. publish the flier on the website 3. send the flier out a couple of times to the GMCA mail list as a means of encouraging additional submission and promoting the sale itself 4. on the eve of the sale special signs are placed at 3 entrances to the neighborhood 5. on the eve of the sale, signs are placed on telephone poles and street sign poles directing buyers to the various sales 6. on the evening of the close, all of the signs are collected.
Link to the Community Garden Page
WHAT'S NEXT?
Fri.-Sat., June 1-2, 8am-5pm: Registration is open for the Annual Community Garage Sale! Complete the form below, or email the organizers at Contact@greenMountainEstates.org Click here to Register!
Thursday June 7 at 7 PM: Neighborhood Meeting, Green Mountain United Methodist Church
Nextdoor.com - A social web site that can be limited to "Green Mountainside." Excellent for recommendations of services, lost animals, and most neighborhood conversations
Code Red - Cell phone users and VoIP (voiceover IP) customers can now register their phone numbers to receive emergency notificationsfrom the Lakewood Police Dept., justlike residents with land lines
Smart 911allows you to identify some details that will allow first responders to be specially prepared should you call them to your home
