By Kendall Harshberger
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House of Representative members will be having a garage sale this weekend to kick off Dance Marathon fundraising activities. The event will take place in the main cafeteria. The sale starts tomorrow and goes from 9 to 4 p.m. It continues on Sunday from noon to 4 p.m., according to House sponsor Sarah Wolff.

Dance Marathon, which typically takes place in February each year, is one of this school’s largest events and raises money for Riley Hospital. Participants spend six hours learning a line dance, listening to Riley speakers, and participating in other activities such as crafts and games.

Senior Lauren Wiegand, Cabinet member and co-chair of the garage sale, said she thinks the event will be  productive and successful.

“I think garage sales’ success in general has gone up in this economy because everybody’s looking for a good deal,” she said.

Wiegand said 100 percent of the proceeds from this weekend’s event will go straight to Dance Marathon.

“This is a great way to reach out to those people in the community who don’t necessarily have the opportunity to get involved in Dance Marathon, maybe because they don’t have kids at Carmel or something like that,” she said. “They could come to this garage sale and get involved in that way.”

According to Wolff, the materials that will be sold at the garage sale come from donations from House and Cabinet members. Cabinet members will sort through and organize the donated items after school on Thursday and Friday.

“The donations will be gently used household items like furniture and books,” she said.

Despite pressures to surpass last year’s earnings, Wiegand said that House is not trying to beat any monetary goals.

She said, “If we personally as a team feel we did everything we could, then we consider it a success.”