Giant rummage sale for 1912 Center

[Kenton Bird <kbird@uidaho.edu>]

Visionaries:
Following is information about a Jan. 20 event that provides a great
opportunity to support the 1912 Center.
--Kenton
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Community rummage sale features
everything but the kitchen sink

 Volunteers are combing through closets, attics and garages across the
Palouse, gathering furniture, clothing, collectibles and books for a
giant sale to benefit Moscow's 1912 Center.
 The sale, nicknamed the "Bizarre Bazaar," is timed to coincide with the
return of University of Idaho students for the beginning of the spring
semester.   It will take place from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday,
Jan. 20, at the 1912 high school (formerly known as the Whitworth
Building) at 410 East Third Street.
 The city of Moscow purchased the building in 1997 from the Moscow
School District.  The city plans to transform the structure to a
multi-generational community center.  When complete, the building will
house art studios, meeting rooms, galleries, exhibit space, scientific
demonstrations, and centers for senior citizens and developmentally
disabled adults.
 Lois Blackburn, a member of the Mayor's Task Force on the 1912 Center,
says the sale will combine donated items with construction materials
salvaged from the building.
 "We're even selling the original toilets with embossed floral design in
the porcelain and heavy oak seats," said Blackburn, who is coordinating
the sale.  "They're working plumbing fixtures, but they'd make terrific
outdoor planters." Other materials include bricks, light fixtures and
doors.
 Among the donated items are a 78-RPM recording of the "Chiquita Banana"
song and marbled textiles and paper produced by Pullman artist Martha
Duran.  Volunteers will also sell beverages and baked goods during the
day to ward off shoppers' hunger.
 Blackburn acknowledged that the sale coincides with the Latah County
Human Rights Task Force breakfast to commemorate Martin Luther King
Day.   She urged Moscow residents to attend both the human rights
breakfast from 9 to 11 a.m. at Moscow Junior High School and the rummage
sale.
 "We are open until 3:30 p.m., and there will be bargains all day,"
Blackburn said..  "But come early to be sure to get one of the antique
toilets."
 "This will be a festive and fun event," said Jeanne Leffingwell,
interim arts coordinator for the city of Moscow.   "It's worth stopping
by, if only to see the piles of great stuff."
  All proceeds go to the fund for refurbishing the building.   Bids for
Phase I, the Great Room and kitchen on the ground floor, will be opened
next month, with completion expected in late summer.
 Donated materials will be accepted until Jan. 18.  Items may dropped
off at the Avalon House  at 111 N. Washington.  Donors may call the Tom
Hudson Co. at 882-8936 to arrange for pick-up.  Receipts for tax
purposes will be available.
 For more information call: Lois Blackburn, 882-8936, or Jeanne
Leffingwell, 883-7036