Missouri town's garage sale benefits Haitian orphanage

 
BY ROBERT COHEN, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Published: June 7, 2011

WEBSTER GROVES , Mo. -- A hastily planned trip to Haiti almost 30 years ago has led a Shrewsbury woman to encourage her church friends and neighbors to clean out their closets annually for a big garage sale to benefit a Haitian orphanage.

"It's God's sale," says Jane Corbett , 76, who is in her 29th year of holding the event. She moved it to Nerinx Hall high school in Webster Groves after the sale grew too large fo...


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