LAWA‘I — Having the outside units rented had multiple benefits, Sunday, at the Lawa‘i Cannery Mini Storage. Faced with morning rains, shoppers took advantage of trying to find the more than 30 vendors located throughout the Lawa‘i Cannery complex, the
LAWA‘I — Having the outside units rented had multiple benefits, Sunday, at the Lawa‘i Cannery Mini Storage.
Faced with morning rains, shoppers took advantage of trying to find the more than 30 vendors located throughout the Lawa‘i Cannery complex, the maze of covered aisles providing shelter from the rains.
“We had to put them somewhere,” said Lorna Santos of the Lawa‘i Cannery. “A lot of the outside units have been rented out, so we just found what was available.”
Santos said Sunday’s sale benefited Girl Scout Troop 851, sponsored by the Lihu‘e Christian Church.
Fees assessed to the vendors go directly to the beneficiary group and the organization can also have a booth as well as raise funds through selling food, Santos said.
“We’re trying to raise funds for the Girl Scouts to have a trip to O‘ahu in October,” said Cheryl Perreira, Scoutmaster of the troop. “We have a variety of food and snacks for everyone. Today we’re offering popcorn, shave ice, bento lunches, musubi, hot dogs, and we even have apple pie.”
Marli Genegabuas, Makena Domingo and Bryanna Perreira were three of the eight Girl Scouts from the troop who were engrossed in filling orders for popcorn and shave ice, having to take breaks to ask Cheryl Perreira for advice on more than one occasion.
Charmaine Simao, a longtime vendor at the Lawa‘i Cannery garage sales, said they started getting ready a few days before Sunday’s event.
“We had to put up the sign at King Auto Center and today we’re prepared,” she said. “We even have a TV and a DVD player in case it was slow.”
But slow it wasn’t, as her efforts were bolstered by a first-time vendor selling an assortment of sunglasses in both polarized and colored versions as well as binoculars.
“I was kind of late in getting started, so I think that’s why I didn’t get the (main) aisle,” he said. “But I had fliers posted all the way to the North Shore, so I’m sure people found us.”
Several doors down, Tiki Toes, a distributor of rubber slippers, was having a warehouse sale in conjunction with the Lawa‘i Cannery sale. Customers from the cannery event overflowed to the warehouse sale on their way to or from their cars which were parked throughout the complex.
“We have some slipper seconds that people can get good deals on,” the Tiki Toes spokesperson said. “Usually, we don’t have a place where seconds can be sold. Plus our daughter is going off to college, so she’s selling all her warm-weather clothes. At least that should help her with plane fare.”
Santos said the next Lawa‘i Cannery garage sale will be in October to benefit the Spontaneous Club as a fundraiser for the U.S. Marine Corps League Toys for Tots program.
“We haven’t set a firm date for that sale yet,” Santos said. “But this is the second year the Spontaneous Club is coming back and we like the Toys for Tots program.”
