From May 22 to 25, St. Bonaventure University’s Franciscan Center for Social Concern will host its annual move-out sale in Butler Gym.
The sale features items donated by students and other SBU community members.
“It’s essentially a way that we try to keep things out of the landfill,” said Ky Mangulis, the student coordinator for the sale. “We set up donation boxes in each of the dorm and apartment buildings on campus and as students move out of the summer, they can donate anything they don’t want anymore instead of throwing it out.”
Mangulis, a sophomore environmental studies and psychology double major, said the event is basically a huge garage sale for the Bonaventure community.
The donated items will be organized around the gym for consumers to buy.
Proceeds from the sale will benefit the programs and events the FCSC sponsors, such as Bona Buddies, service trips and general proceeds to university ministries.
Mangulis said the FCSC has attempted to advertise the event more this year with the hopes of a good turnout.
“We want to get a lot of people to come to the sale, and also to let students know that they can earn volunteer hours by staying to help with this,” Mangulis said.
The FCSC also sent out a request to local supermarkets asking for paper shopping bags that patrons can use at the sale.
“Our intent is to reduce the amount of waste placed in landfills, provide community members with goods at low prices and raise money for our Franciscan Center for Social Concern,” Mangulis wrote in the letter.
Alice Miller-Nation, director of the FCSC, said the sale is an example of the difference a person can make, one item at a time.
“Everything that we no longer need doesn’t need to be thrown out,” she said. “We can create ways of getting items onto another consumer and let them live out their life.”
The first day of the sale will be open to SBU students, staff and faculty from 4 to 8 p.m. It will then be open to the public the next three days from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
“This really aligns with who we are as a university, with our Franciscan values, caring for our brothers and sisters and the world we live in,” Miller-Nation said. “I invite people to think about their consumption and their purchasing. Do we always need new things, or could we get it used?”
By Jeff Uveino, Staff Writer
uveinojj17@bonaventure.edu
