The deadline to have an address listed as participating in the upcoming citywide yard sale is May 8, according to its organizer.<\/p>\n
The citywide event is planned for May 22-24.<\/p>\n
Eren White-Williams, a former\u00a0alderwoman who oversees the event, started the yard sale when she first was elected to Jacksonville City Council. After her resignation in April, sh remained as organizer for the event.<\/p>\n
“Different areas of all the town who want to have a yard sale come together on a specific weekend \u2014 mine’s always been Memorial Day weekend because that’s pretty much the unofficial start of summer when school is getting out,” White-Williams said. “It’s three days. Not everybody does it all three days. Some do, but it’s always been a great turnout, and it gives a lot of revenue to gas stations, stores, all that, for people visiting.”<\/p>\n
There were about 50 people signed up for the event so far, White-Williams said earlier this week.<\/p>\n
To participate, call or text 217-720-1638 with your name and address. Addresses will be published in the participants listing. Names will not.<\/p>\n
“I noticed other towns smaller than Jacksonville were having citywide yard sales and I’m like, ‘why are we not doing this?’ Somebody’s junk might be someone else’s treasure,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The deadline to have an address listed as participating in the upcoming citywide yard sale is May 8,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4613,116,118,117,115,278],"class_list":["post-254217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-breakingnews","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}