Kenyon Street Tag Sale
Schedule
Schedule below assumes Rose Weekend date ~ June 23-24.

When	Who	What	
Dec	Coordinator	ID West End Tags coordinator for the year if at least 5 on block are interested.  
(responsibilities below)	
Dec, Week 2	Coordinator	Email WECA newsletter contacts for WE Feb-March Newsletter: 
Mention the date.  Invite other blocks with at least three participants to contact our coordinator by April 30.  
2007 newsletter contacts:  Jill Donan and Chris McCarron at  wecanews@yahoo.com 	
Feb	Coordinator	Calendar-setting dessert party:  Volunteer coordinator announces date, asks who definitely wants to participate, and who might participate from our block (keep the list of names).   Should be 5 committed to participate in order to make it a block event.  
Distribute schedule deadlines.  
•	Coordinator:
o	Notifies other West End blocks of event, keeps list for WECA notice. (Possibly for shared costs for ad, flyers, balloons, signs at some point in future years.  Sharing costs with other blocks would be a lot of work).
o	Notifies Kenyon distribution, keeps list of participants along with item descriptions from participants.
o	Emails notices to WECA newsletter, FABD newsletter, WTIC Sunday Tag Sale site and Craig's List.  
o	Emails list to Kenyon Street website for page:  http://kenyonstreethartford.org/tag_sale.html#AnnualTagSale  
o	Asks WECA if Brenda (& Tonia) can include Tag Sale notice in WECA email distribution as well. brendaweca@sbcglobal.net , tonialoconte@msn.com
o	Checks with volunteers to make sure we’re set.
Get volunteers for: 
•	Ads person
Places ad in Courant.  Collects shared fee from participants.
•	Flyers person
Updates and prints flyers and puts them in local shop windows. 
•	Signs person
Makes signs for street corners (highway exit), posts and removes them.
(Phil may have sandwich board signs.) 
•	Balloons person
Buys and distributes balloons to each participating house.	
 		Feb-Mar - Invitation for other blocks to participate appears in WECA newsletter (so flyers can list all blocks).	
May 1	Coordinator	Email 1st Reminder to Kenyon Block.  Ask who is planning to participate.	
May, Week 2	Coordinator	Place Notice or Box Ad in WECA newsletter, listing all participating blocks, days, (hours).	
 		June-July Notice in WECA Newsletter, listing all participating blocks, days, (hours).	
June 1	Coordinator	Email notice to FABD newsletter: Lee Whittemore nutshellpress@yahoo.com 
Place notice on WTIC Sunday tag sale site.  Contact:  	
June 1	Coordinator	Email 2nd Reminder to Kenyon Block.  Ask who else is participating, and get items.
Coordinator starts sending list of items to Kenyon Street website at u12311@snet.net.	
June, week 1	Flyers person	Post flyers in local shop windows, grocery and drug stores.	
June 15	Coordinator	Email 3rd Reminder to Kenyon Block w/ deadline for Courant Ad.  Ask all to e-mail the notice/flyer to interested  friends.
Email list to Kenyon website u12311@snet.net .	
Monday before:	Signs person	Make signs.  Place signs on poles at strategic corners, at highway exit.  
(Phil may have sandwich board signs)	
Wed-Fri before	Coordinator	Post on Craig's list each day.    http://hartford.craigslist.org/
Email Craig's List link to Kenyon Street.  Mention rain policy if probable.   
      Rain policy:  Light rain, sale from porches.  If thunderstorm day, no sales.
      Email mentions where to give away stuff that doesn't sell: 
      Freecycle.org    WHfd Freecycle     donate list    Dress for Success
 
      Also :  bulky waste pick-up: 543-8750   
      2007:  hs hazardous waste:  9/10/07, 8-1 pm, MDC
                 electronics recycling: 11/10/07, 9-1 pm, 211 Murphy Rd.	
Fri	Balloon person	Check on final list of participants.  Buy, Distribute Mylar helium balloons.	
Wed or Thurs by 5 pm 	Ads person 	Courant classified deadline for print and on-line tag sales.  Place ad to run on: Fri., Sat., and Sunday.  Courant Classified: Place an ad   See sample ad.  $41 (2007).
Pay for Ad.  Collect fees from each participant to cover total costs. 	
Post Tag Sale	Signs person	Remove signs.  	
Post Tag Sale	Coordinator	Congratulations and Thanks to all! 	

Costs:

Courant Classified Ad:  	~ $41 (Place an ad on-line) See sample ad below.
Flyers:				Kinko’s 233-8245			
Sign Material:			
Balloons:  		1 for each participant (Party Shop on 285 Newfield Ave.  953-4118.  Next to WalMart in Hartford – Take Sisson to New Park, left on Flatbush, right on Newfield)

Courant Classified Ad:

Courant classified deadline for print and on-line tag sales is the day before (Thursday by 5 pm).  Place ad to run on: Fri., Sat., and Sunday.  
Courant Classified – category Merchandise / tag sale: Place an ad 

2007 Rates:		Tag Sale - For $18.50 your 3 line ad runs in Courant Classified for 3 days and on courant.com (with expanded content) for 3 days. Add'l lines in print, $4.50 each.	

Sample for 2007:

$41.00

HARTFORD Sat 6/23, 9-2, Sun 6/
24, 10-3. A dozen tag sales on
the first block of Kenyon St.
(between Farmington Ave. &
Fern St. in the West End of
Hartford)! See http://
kenyonstreethartford.org
for an updated list of items. 	

On-Line Expansion:
Add partial list of items.