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Auction- Goers \Will Pick Throucjh Schools Discords
BY SUSAN USHER
When an entire school system cleans out its closets
for the first time in years, it's amazing what comes to
light.
Rows of 16mm filmstrip. overhead and slide projec
tors, old Radio Shack TRS-80s and other, larger comput
ers. Manual and electronic adding machines and type
writers, as well as duplicating machines and laminating
machines. Record players. Seven televisions. Three pi
anos. An upholstery machine lacking an OSHA-mandat
ed safety cover for its belt.
Odds and ends of toys. Outdated wall maps and
globes. Boxes of beige, no-gimmicks touch-tone phones
and small switchboard systems. Legless conference ta
bles. Desks. Giairs, including a comfy office type minus
one odd-size wheel and approximately 100 student
chairs.
Cafeteria equipment (pots and pans and the big
items too). A child-size raised potty seat. A microscope
or two. Books, whole and partial filmstrip sets and train
ing materials.
Get the idea?
Virtually any object that can be found inside a
schoolhouse goes on sale Saturday, June 4, when the
Brunswick County Board of Education auctions off its
excess inventory. Most of the items either can no longer
be used, don't work or have missing parts. Some are
suitable for salvage.
Mote than 1,000 items will be auctioned off "as is"
starting at 9 a.m. at the old Willetts Ford dealership
building in downtown Bolivia. Merchandise will be
available for inspection at 8 a.m.
After expenses that include the auctioneer's fee and
$1,000 building rental, proceeds will go to the school
system's general fund.
"We expect to see stuff coming in right up until the
day before the auction," said Pam Dean, hired as a tern
porary last fall to update the school systems' fixed assets
inventory. "We still haven't picked up items from three
schools and we have to go baick to one school."
"Storage is a problem in all the schools," she said.
"We need to get these old things out of the way so
they'll have room for newer equipment."
Of the items brought in thus fai, she expects the
cafeteria equipment to net the most money for the
schools. Some of the is in good condition, but cannot be
used in the schools because it isn't made of stainless
steel.
Two pedal-operated sewing machines in their origi
nal wooden cabinets are also expected to fetch good
prices under the coaxing and casing of professional
auctioneer Douglas Pate of Southport.
Her favorite item is an avocado-colored upright pi
ano with a carved front and the musty smell of old
leather.
As an enticement for auction-goers to linger, conces
sions will be available from band booster dubs from
West Brunswick and South Brunswick high schools and
possibly North Brunswick. Proceeds will go to the band
boosters.
Several high school students have been helping haul
equipment to the sale site and will help the day of the
auction, she said.
Other school system departments have pitched in to
help prepare for the auction, with food service providing
use of its truck ana school system employees putting in
extra hours to help pick up goods being discarded by in
dividual schools and departments. Before the auction
every item will have been checked against the fixed in
ventory list and tagged.
"The auctioneer says we have some very saleable
goods," said Dean. "He anticipates a good day.
"Who knows? If it goes well, we will probably do it
again."
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