The Catskill Chronicle

JEFFERSONVILLE, NY – (August 19, 2013) – Want to boost the buzz for your Labor Day Weekend yard sale and support a great cause at the same time? Join WJFF’s “Yardstock,” a regional yard sale tour organized and promoted by WJFF.

WJFF, a Jeffersonville, NY public radio station with studios in Jeffersonville, NY and Honesdale, PA, will produce a self-guided Yard Sale Tour on Labor Day Weekend encompassing the station’s entire broadcast radius. A free map will guide shoppers to all the yard sales that are part of the tour during the weekend and will even list some highlighted items at each yard sale. Anyone who wants their yard sale to be listed on the map just needs to submit a short application (available at the station’s website) and agree to donate a percentage of their total sales to WJFF.

“We’re excited about this,“ says Adam Weinreich, WJFF interim station manager. “We’re reaching out to the public and asking people to hold a yard sale over Labor Day weekend. People who want to be part of it will be featured on the “self-guided-tour” map, which we’ll put on the WJFF website, then promote it like crazy.  More people will know about more yard sales.  Everyone wins.”
Anyone who is included on the map will have agreed to donate a percentage of their sales to WJFF, so the more successful each yard sale is, the more money WJFF will raise.

Beyond fundraising, Weinreich says, WJFF expects Yardstock to help build the ever-growing WJFF community. “A lot of our listeners will find out about a whole bunch of great yard sales that they might not have otherwise known about,“ he says, adding that the station plans a WJFF lemonade stand somewhere along the way to sell drinks and snacks and “give folks a chance to stop and show off some of their purchases.” He is even encouraging shoppers to make purchases during Yardstock to be dropped at WJFF as donations for the station’s annual auction, scheduled for late September this year.

WJFF Radio Catskill, is a hydro-powered volunteer-driven public radio station based in Jeffersonville, NY and with a satellite studio in Honesdale, PA. Its contingent of more than 80 volunteers provide listeners with a mix of both locally and nationally produced programming on the air at 90.5 and 94.5 FM and streamed live and archived at www.wjffradio.org.