Surplus, Discarded Property Sale Slated June 10
Contact: Gordon Nelson, 581-4799; George Manlove, 581-3756
ORONO — The University of Maine’s annual yard sale to dispose of tons of discarded student property — ranging from coffee makers and computer components to clothes, carpets and cleaning equipment — is being combined this year with an Auxiliary Services surplus property sale.
The sale is Wednesday, June 10, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Stewart Commons on Hilltop Road.
Departing students typically leave small appliances, electronics and room furnishings like lamps, rugs, carpets and articles of clothing behind when they leave the university in May.
Items are sold at an annual campus yard sale to the UMaine community and the public at very low prices. What is left over is donated to charity, according to Gordon Nelson, director of property management for Auxiliary Services.
Combined with the students’ discarded property this year will be the liquidation of surplus residence hall, dinning services and Cutler Student Health Center items, including beds, desks, dressers, benches, chairs, mirrors, bookcases and file cabinets, among other things.