Flood of donations for Bluff save-the-pool drive

ROBYN EDIE/The Southland Times

SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE: Checking out some of the bargains to be had at the monster garage sale in Bluff are swimming club committee member Casey Johnson (in yellow lifejacket), Teneille Johnson, 4, and Jade Windle.

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They even have a kitchen sink.

Bluff has mobilised for a monster garage sale at the scout hall in Barrow St tomorrow as part of the community campaign to save the port town's swimming pool.

Such a collective cleanout has resulted that organiser Sandra Johnson has been forced to ask for a halt to donations, at least for now.

"It's coming out our ears," she said. "We're going to have to have another one. We can't physically take any more.

"We've even pinched the policemen's garage next door."

The momentum that the sale has developed caught organisers out, even though they already knew the community was ardent in support of its pool, which the Invercargill City Council will close unless they can raise $1.1 million.

Donations range from computers, TVs and videos, to sports gear, tables and chairs, prams and high chairs, even an under-the-bed po and bags of pine cones collected by children.

Just when it was looking like everything but the kitchen sink had been brought along, one of them showed up with a bench top.

The sale will be held at the scout hall, nextdoor to the police station in Barrow St, starting 10am and continuing "until late."

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