Media Preview Clean Sweep Sale
WABI (Channel 5) and WVII (Channel 7) advanced the annual Clean Sweep Sale that takes place 11 a.m.–6 p.m. Friday, May 22 and 8 a.m.–2 p.m. Saturday, May 23 in York Commons. Furniture, rugs, electronics, appliances, housewares, books, bedding, shoes and clothing will be among the items for sale. Items were donated by the university or students who moved out of the dorms at the end of the semester. “We set up drop locations at each of the residence halls on campus so that they can just leave things right there without having to carry them somewhere and we explain what we’re doing with it,” Lisa Morin, coordinator of UMaine’s Bodwell Center for Service and Volunteerism, told WABI. “All the money that’s raised through this sale is used to buy food that goes into our own campus food pantry or to buy supplies for the service projects our students are going to be completing for our welcome weekend when they come back in August.”