Attention bargain hunters and pack rats: Snell Isle is holding a neighborhood garage sale from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. this Saturday.
The communitywide garage sale will include nearly 45 homes. Almost every block on the island will be represented by at least one family selling their goods.
Florence Smith, who turns 85 later this month and lives on Belleair Drive, will be the oldest islander participating in the sale. Smith has been pricing a few items to sell for several days now and plans to fill a clothesline and a sheet on the ground with clothes ranging in price from 25 cents to 50 cents.
With the help of a "young fellow" who rents a home from Smith, she plans to get an early start the morning of the sale. She said she worries about her strength and being able to last through the day.
"If I get it all out, I might collapse before I get it all inside, if it doesn't sell," Smith said.
If the lamps, kitchen utensils and clothes she puts up for grabs don't sell, Smith will donate them to Hospice. Whatever money she makes may go toward her birthday fund; she'll be celebrating with a younger couple and another friend aboard a four-day Royal Caribbean cruise.
Ian Murphy, who lives on Cordova Boulevard, makes a career out of selling single-engine Cessna airplanes. Saturday, his sales pitch may involve less interesting merchandise.
"I'm just selling stuff," he said. Basically, whatever his girlfriend tells him he needs to get rid of, he'll put out in front of his house.
"I'd love to sell an aircraft," Murphy said of the event. "I'd have to land it on the golf course (Vinoy Gulf Course) and taxi it over to my house."
Kids of all ages will participate in the sale serving lemonade, cookies and selling smaller treasures.
Maps will be available across from the Women's Club at 40 Snell Isle Blvd. There, a group of Girl Scouts will collect money to benefit victims of Hurricane Katrina. A small part of each sale will also go toward the Snell Isle Foundation Historic Lighting Project.
Listing items she'd have out for sale, Smith said: "Come on by, and you'll see junk like you've never seen before!"
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"Harris Park Neighborhood is on the WANTED LIST," said area Crime Watch coordinator Betsy Sweet.
The neighborhood will host its first Family Crime Prevention Fun Day from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at Kiwanis Park, 3800 18th St. N, and Sweet said she wants "people to come out and see what's going on in the neighborhood."
Community police Officer Anthony Corio will be present, along with the St. Petersburg Crime Prevention and D.A.R.E. units, Road Patrol and the 34th Street Federation.
Along with learning new crime prevention tips, residents may receive auto steering wheel locks with proof of license and registration, and will have the chance to register their bicycles.
For more information, call Betsy Sweet at (727) 520-8286.
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Bartlett Park Neighborhood Association will host a Labor Day Celebration from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. Monday at Grandview Park near the entrance to Coquina Key at Sixth Street and 39th Avenue S.
Employees of nonunion companies can learn about rights in the workplace and the contributions made by America's labor movement while enjoying food, music and speakers.
Guests will include local labor union leaders, a veteran labor lawyer, the First Progressive Club, the Alliance for Retired Americans, coalition partners from environmental and community organizations, and musician Jim Glover.
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Fossil Park Neighborhood Association will meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the North Branch Library, 871 70th Ave. N. Neighborhood transportation manager Michael Frederick will speak about traffic calming on Atwood Avenue.
This will be the last Fossil Park Neighborhood Association meeting at the North Branch Library. The October meeting will take place at Palm Terrace of St. Petersburg, 521 69th Ave. N.
