The Bemidji Pioneer's seventh annual Indoor Garage Sale will open its doors at 8 a.m. today at Bemidji Middle School.
More than 50 booths will offer a wide array of new and used items throughout the day until 2 p.m.
"Everything from soup to nuts," said Mary DuFault, garage sale committee member and classified ad manager.
She listed gourmet foods, handmade jewelry, sweatshirts and T-shirts, bird feeders, rubber stamps, cookbooks, fishing gear, greeting cards and collectibles among the merchandise available for browsing and buying.
"We've certainly had good response in past years," DuFault said, noting that there is usually a line of people waiting to come into the school before the doors open. The entry fee is $1 with children 10 and younger admitted free.
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The Pioneer will also sell brats, hot dogs, pork barbecue sandwiches and beverages.
All proceeds from admissions and booth rentals will go to the Pioneer's Newspapers in Education program.
"Every dollar generates eight newspapers for schools," said Tedd Wisner, Pioneer circulation manager. "It's a great way to supply the teachers with a textbook for free."
Currently, he said the circulation of NIE newspapers is 208 on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. On Wednesdays, when Beverly Cleary's serial children's novel "Ramona the Pest" runs, the NIE circulation is 708, Wisner said.
T.J. Melcher, who works in the circulation department and is in charge of NIE, said the newspaper goes to Lincoln, J.W. Smith, Horace May, Northern and Solway elementary schools, Voyageurs Expeditionary High School and Heartland Christian Academy in Bemidji as well as schools in Bena, Blackduck, Nevis, Red Lake and Ponemah.
