Melbourne Avian Rescue Sanctuary

yard sale

Rummage sale remains, are someones future treasures.

Volunteers of the M.A.R.S. rummage sale
Volunteers of the M.A.R.S. rummage sale

Never under estimate the amazing array of good finds that can be uncovered at a rummage sale.

M.A.R.S., for many years now, has been extremely fortunate, to be invited to the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church annual January fundraiser sale to pick up the remains from their two day event. The items, to then be incorporated into one of our fundraiser yard sales to benefit our rescue, Melbourne Avian Rescue Sanctuary.

This year was no exception. A number of our volunteers including Linda, Jane, David, our friend Marilyn and I headed down to the Church and loaded up the truck with a lot of leftover items.

Pictures will be posted in an album on our facebook.com/marsparrots page to get you all thinking about our next sale. Hopefuly to be scheduled sometime towards the end of February. Stay tuned for details of this upcoming event to be held here at M.A.R.S..

One more fun note to share. The whole time we were gathering up all the items, Susan was busy in the upstairs kitchen cooking an amazing hearty lunch for all of us to enjoy upon our return. Yummy is all I can say. Hope all who volunteered this day thought so tooooo!!! Did I forget to mention we also had fritatta for breakfast????

Raising funds and raising awareness

yard saleCome to M.A.R.S.. So many really good deals are waiting for you right here at our second sale of the year. Pictures of some of the sale items have been uploaded to our face book page. View them facebook.com/marsparrots. Look forward to seeing all of you here.

 

The dates are the 17th and the 18th of May. That is this coming Friday and Saturday. The times 8:00 and on to????? No early birds please!!!

 

We are still accepting donations of items for resale. Call 321 725 8800 for pick-ups or e-mail marsparrots@aol.com for more how to info. We are still in need of a large tent 20 x40 would be perfect. We have 10×10’s but if it rains things do get wet including all of our shoppers.

What does one Rescue called M.A.R.S., + Volunteers + Donations add up to?

It adds up to the perfect formula for a well run, very successful fundraiser to benefit our exotic bird rescue known as M.A.R.S..

Anyone who has ever run their own yard or garage sale knows full well, the effort and preparation necessary to pull off a really good and well staged one, is staggering to say the least.

We are happy to say, this sale was the best one we’ve ever had at Melbourne Avian Rescue Sanctuary. Please know, that is saying alot, as we’ve put on some amazing sales here at the rescue to raise funds for M.A.R.S. parrots in the past. We invite all of you to visit our older blog posts to view those pictures.

What a simply amazing team of volunteers, and great people donating lots of really good items to sell can accomplish is tantamount to continuing the work we do at M.A.R.S.. Without these funds, helping all the parrots who come into our exotic bird rescue, adoption and rehabilitation sanctuary would not be possible.

Our sincere thanks to all the Volunteers who joined in and gave their time and energy towards making this such a successful endeavor. Please take time to view our pics which we will post on our Facebook page, Facebook.com/marsparrots.

It is also our sincerest hope, that you remember M.A.R.S. when ever a donation to our cause is possible. As always we need all the help we can get to keep helping all of them.

YARD SALE yeilds much needed funds for M.A.R.S.

Melbourne Avian Rescue Sanctuary wants to thank all who participated in making this sale a success. Those of you who helped are the backbone of any rescue organization. For those of you who came out and spent some money, we hope you enjoyed the sale.

Funding for exotic bird rescue is virtually non existent, so these sales are needed to keep funds available for feeding, operation, and numerous other necessities and expenses associated with a rescue.

Please continue to support our cause. Donate online, attend our future sales, become a member, or become a volunteer. Thank-you to all.

Oh, and as all our batteries need recharging just as the cameras does, pictures will be posted on our Facebook page, Florida Parrot Rescue M.A.R.S. later today. Please make sure to take a look.

Saturday Sept. 24th Yard Sale for M.A.R.S.

 I’m Dusty, an Umbrella Cockatoo. I reside here at Melbourne Avian Rescue Sanctuary.I am available for adoption, please ask to meet me.

 I’m extending an invitation to all to come to our fund raising Yard Sale on the 24th of September.

 There will be lots of items for sale, treasures and goods galore. You might have to dig to find them but you will have fun while you do. As we get organized we will post pictures of items for sale on our Facebook page, Florida Parrot Rescue M.A.R.S..

 The time 8;00 to 4:30

 The place M.A.R.S.  418 Ocean Ave. Melbourne Beach, right in the front of the building.

 All proceeds of this event go directly to the care of the avians who reside here at our sanctuary. It is our hope that you join us. We are accepting donated items to sell all week long, and if by chance no one is here to receive them we have a drop box near the side gate. Volunteers are needed as well for the actual set-up on Friday, Saturday the sale day and Sunday the breakdown. E-mail marsparrots@aol.com if you can help or if you have items that need picked up.

Thank-you to all who help in supporting  our Florida Parrot Rescue M.A.R.S.. Please watch for our updates on our Face book page.