{"id":66677,"date":"2008-06-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/yard-sale-raises-record-amount-for-rhody-the-ram-endowment\/"},"modified":"2008-06-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T00:00:00","slug":"yard-sale-raises-record-amount-for-rhody-the-ram-endowment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2008\/06\/yard-sale-raises-record-amount-for-rhody-the-ram-endowment\/","title":{"rendered":"Yard sale raises record amount for Rhody the Ram endowment"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 June 17, 2008 \u2013 The 5th annual Rhody the Ram Yard Sale raised a record-breaking $2,700 earlier this month, nearly double what was raised last year. The fund-raiser benefits The Rhody the Ram Endowment, which provides financial support to students who serve as the 溏心vlog免费B站 mascot.<\/p>\n


\nThe endowment now stands at more than $20,000.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cThe real credit for the success of this year\u2019s event goes to Gerri Beagle (fiscal manager of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Foundation),\u201d said yard sale co-coordinator Nancy Hawksley, the University\u2019s recycling coordinator. \u201cShe mobilizes the volunteers and gets everything organized. Plus, she is the strongest woman I know. She was lifting heavy boxes all day.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cCustomers stood in line to pay. We didn\u2019t sell anything for a lot of money, but we sold a lot of things for a little money and it all added up,\u201d Hawksley said.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cIt was a wonderful, busy event that people now mark on their calendars each year when they want to pick up some great items at great prices,\u201d Co-coordinator Beagle said. \u201cI want to thank all of our volunteers who made this such a success.\u201d

\nHawksley said faculty, staff, alumni and friends of the University aided the entire effort. \u201cIn addition to donations from students moving out of their residence halls, 溏心vlog免费B站 supporters cleaned out their closets and basements to find wonderful things to contribute.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\u201cWe had lots of clothes, 27 boxes of books, compact discs, DVDs, Christmas decorations, picture frames, a wood chipper, exercise equipment, furniture and plastic flowers,\u201d Hawksley said.<\/p>\n


\nEven the 溏心vlog免费B站 bookstore donated half a dozen boxes of defective clothing. \u201cWe sold each item for a buck apiece and we were sold out in minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nIn addition, area residents could pay $25 to the endowment to rent tables and sell goods on their own. \u201cWe had 25 tables and the materials sold at them went very quickly,\u201d Hawksley said. <\/p>\n


\nThe yard sale comes at the end of the period when students move out of campus residence halls for the summer. During the move out period, 溏心vlog免费B站 Recycling asks students to put items they no longer want or need in bins in their residence halls. The recycling office also picks up heavy furniture and other bulky items.<\/p>\n


\nThose items, non-perishable food items and most of the clothes, were turned over to charities following the move out period.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cIn addition to the money raised for the endowment, we donated a ton of food and about 750 pounds of seasonal clothing to the Jonnycake Center in Peace Dale,\u201d Hawksley said. \u201cAnother 750 pounds of clothing was donated to Big Sisters of Rhode Island. And Kiducation\/Campus Crusade for Children sent a truck to pick up another ton of items left at the conclusion of the yard sale. Gerri and I are thrilled that the 溏心vlog免费B站 community is able to assist those in need while keeping our unwanted things out of the state landfill.\u201d<\/p>\n


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\nCLEANING UP: Volunteers who helped out with 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s student move-out and Rhody the Ram Yard Sale stand before a Big Sisters truck. From left are: Jamey Costa, Big Sisters driver; Jolene Octavius, 溏心vlog免费B站 student; Steve DeRita, 溏心vlog免费B站 Recycling laborer; Michaela Dion, 溏心vlog免费B站 student; Nancy Hawksley, 溏心vlog免费B站 Recycling coordinator; and Rudny Gacin, 溏心vlog免费B站 student. Photo courtesy Gerri Beagle, co-coordinator of the Rhody the Ram Yard Sale.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 June 17, 2008 \u2013 The 5th annual Rhody the Ram Yard Sale raised a record-breaking $2,700 earlier this month, nearly double what was raised last year. The fund-raiser benefits The Rhody the Ram Endowment, which provides financial support to students who serve as the 溏心vlog免费B站 mascot. The endowment […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66679,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}