Friendship Centre collecting craft-supply donations ahead of spring scrapbook sales

By Emily Stewart

The St. Marys Friendship Centre is hoping a community request will inspire residents to sort through their belongings and donate scrapbooking and other crafting supplies.

The Friendship Centre is collecting donations of new and gently used crafting items for their upcoming spring scrapbooking garage sale fundraisers. Donations of notebooks, adult colouring books, markers, pens, pencils, self-care items, holiday basket items, birthday items and materials for cardmaking and scrapbooking will be accepted.

“We’re putting out that call to the community that if you do have any new or gently used scrapbooking or cardmaking or crafting supplies, we would love to have them and it’s a nice time of year if anyone is sort of doing post-holiday cleaning and organizing,” said Sarah Jones, senior services activity coordinator with the Town of St. Marys.

Donations can be brought in until March 20 or 21, ahead of the next Spring Scrapbook Sale on March 28 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. There will also be another sale on April 11. The scrapbook sales usually have 50 or more vendor tables full of crafting supplies that can be purchased tax-free.

All proceeds from the fundraisers will support St. Marys senior services. The scrapbook fundraisers contribute towards the yearly fundraising goals, support programming and ensure costs stay low and accessible.

The popular events bring in plenty of out-of-towners.

“We get a lot of participants at our garage sale from far and wide. People are looking for deals on a fun day, so through our tracking and such, we’re pretty impressed by how far people come to shop and check things out,” Jones said.

For more information, call the Friendship Centre at 519-284-3272.