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Unique Boutique set for weekend in Marietta

Photo by Janelle Patterson Sharon Coffman, right, Teri Wright, left, and Barb Cassada, center, load the racks, tables, hangers and totes of donated clothing into a moving truck in preparation of the Fall Unique Boutique put on by Zonta.

MARIETTA — The 34th annual Fall Unique Boutique is just around the corner.

The boutique is a semi-annual sale of business attire for adults and seasonal clothing for all ages, all stocked by donation and sold at a bargain.

“Goodbye storage room,” Chris Lisk, co-chair of the event, laughed after she finished sweeping out the storage unit in Reno on Monday.

Donations and clothing racks were kept in the unit for the last several years between clothing sales put on by the local Zonta International Club.

“But we’ve outgrown our current storage room,” Lisk said. “We’re going to have to store the racks in a larger unit after the sale. We’ve taken advantage of the stores closing around here to buy more racks, which we’ve needed with all the donations that come in.”

Plus, she said, there are mountains of clothing already collected and more expected to be donated through this evening.

“I’m sure our husbands are just as or more excited than we are for this week’s sale,” added Sharon Coffman, service chairwoman. “All of our garages are full. My husband built racks and I have clothes hanging in my garage.”

The club recently was renamed Zonta Club of the Mid-Ohio Valley; it was formerly Zonta Club of Marietta.

But the donations being taken this week and to be sold Friday and Saturday are the same.

“The same people generously donated all the time, and we get a lot of people whose family members have passed away that had good quality clothes bring whole wardrobes by,” said Coffman.

Seasonal clothing of all sizes in men, women and children’s fashions will be collected through this evening at the Marietta Township Community Building, 260 Sandhill Road, between 5 and 8 p.m.

“Then the sale starts Friday,” said Lisk, noting a starting time Friday of 4 p.m. with the event continuing through 8 p.m. that day. Then Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. the sale will continue.

Clothing is sold for little money, with no item priced above $10, including designer clothing and formal-wear such as prom gowns.

The boutique is put on semi-annually to raise money for EVE, the local domestic violence shelter, for scholarships and for projects like SOAP, short for Save Our Adolescents from Prostitution.

“And we recently helped a young lady who needed to buy glasses,” said Teri Wright as she and her sister Barb Cassada helped to load the racks, tables and hangers in the moving truck.

During business hours, donations can be dropped off at Real Living McCarthy Real Estate, 318 Second St.; Board of Realtors, 324 Fourth St. Suite 200; and Advantage Real Estate, 228 Pike St.

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