S.H.A.N.N.O.N. Service Club and the Bluffton Senior Citizens Center launch the 2018 Bluffton garage sale season in early March. There's even a chicken barbecue tossed in.

Here are the details:

S.H.A.N.N.O.N. Service Club - at The Centre, 601 N. Main St.
• Friday, March 2 - chicken barbecue (eat in or take out) 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. 

  Tickets $8.50 suggested purchased in advance
 - limited number at the door
• Friday, March 2 - community craft and garage sale, noon-8 p.m.
• Saturday, March 3 - community craft and garage sale, 9 a.m. to noon
     25/75 raffle drawing, 11:30 a.m.

Barbecue tickets are on sale at:
• Polished
• CVS Pharmacy
• Senior Citizens Center
• Ted's Market, Pandora

Admission to the sale is $1 with children 12 and under free. Friday garage sale admission is free with a barbecue ticket.

This is the SHANNON Service Club's major fund-raiser of the year. Proceeds are returned to the community through scholarships, needy families at Christmas and to persons who need an extra helping hand.

Donations are also given to various community projects and organizations.

The barbecue, provided by Ted's Market, Pandora, includes one-half chicken, baked potato, green beans, and roll.

A barbecue ticket gives you free admission to the garage sale on Friday. All proceeds used locally through scholarships, needy families at Christmas and to persons who need an extra helping hand. Donations go to several community projects and organizations.

S.H.A.N.N.O.N. stands for Sharing Hopes And Nourishing Needs Of Neighbors. Booths are rented to individual sellers at The Centre, so items in the sale very depending on the sellers.

For booth space call Connie at: 419-233-2757
For barbecue tickets call Joan at: 419-358-0486

Booth reservation is first-come basis.

An additional fund-raiser is a 25/75 drawing. It will help defray medical and other costs that Deb Bollenbacher has experienced during her illness of Transverse Myelitis (inflammation of the spinal cord). Deb and her husband, Duane, are co-founders of the S.H.A.N.N.O.N. club.

Tickets for the drawing are sold during the weekend and the drawing is at 11:30 a.m., Saturday.

Senior Citizens Center - 132 N. Main St.
• Thursday, March 1, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

• Friday, March 2, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

• Saturday, March 3, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
• Monday, March 5, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. (everything one-half price)

Tonya Meyers, Center director, explains it this way: "The Bluffton Senior Center collects donations from its members and people in the community and then holds a large garage sale once a year as a fundraiser.

Admission is free and all proceeds stay at the Bluffton Senior Center.