Local Family Hosts Yard Sale for Japan, Lions 4 Kids Garage Sale Fundraises for Prom

Looking for a way to support Japan and clean out your closet at the same time? Or, are you searching for a new dress and want to help local high school students experience their perfect prom night? Tomorrow is the day for unique finds at two garage sales in Bonney Lake. 

Tomorrow, is hosting a garage sale called "," benefitting “The Prom Project,” which helps students from the Sumner, Orting and White River school districts afford to go to prom. This year, the goal is to send 45 kids.

And, just down the street, local mom Kristin Robison and her daughters Maren and Elaina are hosting a “” at . All proceeds will go to The Red Cross and Japan relief.

The annual Lions 4 Kids event is one of the highlights of the year, and they need your help to raise the funds for this year’s seniors. Stop by between 7 a.m. and 4 p.m. tomorrow and check out their garage sale, which will feature everything from dresses to shoes, purses and accessories. They will also have an array of children’s books and toys.  

“Yard Sale for Japan” goes from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Bonney Lake’s Cedarview Park. Anyone is invited to bring things to sell. No price tags at this sale – the entire thing is donation only. All leftover items will be taken to the local Goodwill or Salvation Army.

Kristin Robison has made giving back a family tradition and every year she finds a cause for her children to dedicate a fundraiser for. Maren, a 6th grader at and Elaina, a second grader at , baked and sold cupcakes for Hope for Haiti last year, and collected denim the year before that was turned into insulation for homes devastated by Hurricane Katrina.

“I really just want my children to know that even though they’re just ‘kids,’ they can still really help people. We don’t have a lot of money in our pockets to give away, but we have resources,” said Robison. “You see the images of Japan and feel so helpless, but this is always something, no matter how small, that we can do to help.”