Discovery Space to hold yard sale as move to new location looms

Now is the time to look deep into your hearts — and your garages.

Discovery Space will be collecting items for a yard sale to support ongoing work at the children’s science museum’s new digs at 1224 N. Atherton Street.

The same location will also support this week’s sale, which will be held from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday.

“It’s a big space, so it needs funding,” Jen Heller, the volunteer organizing the sale, said.

Donations can be delivered to the Atherton Street address from 4-6 p.m. on Wednesday, 10 a.m.-noon on Thursday and 3-5 p.m. on Friday.

Heller is looking for kitchen items, small appliances, toys — the sky is the limit, really.

“Basically anything but clothing and really large furniture,” Heller said.

The new Discovery Space location is expected to open its doors in September, but an official date has yet to be announced.

At 5 p.m. on Aug. 25, the W. Foster Avenue location will close. Anyone who has volunteered at Discovery Space over the past six years has been invited to attend a final celebration at the downtown site, to be held from 5:30-7:30 p.m. the same day.

Guests can RSVP at mydiscoveryspace.org.

This story was originally published August 14, 2017 at 10:01 PM with the headline "Discovery Space to hold yard sale as move to new location looms."