Shop 'Til You Drop: Over 70 Yard Sales Saturday

    Umatilla’s biggest day of commerce returns from COVID exile this Saturday, March 5, when the Friends of the Umatilla Public Library hosts the city-wide yard sale. Based out of the Umatilla Public Library, the event, now in its 21st year, has grown to be a huge day of commerce in the community, with dozens of yard sales at the library and throughout the community bringing bargain hunters from all over to the community.
    The library is located at 412 Hatfield Drive, near the First Baptist Church of Umatilla.
    Area residents who have wished to join the fun have paid a small fee to have their sales listed on a master map of the event, which shows where sales are located throughout Umatilla. Those maps will be available at the library beginning this Friday, March 4.
    In addition to over 30 sales at the library, event-goers are invited inside to partake of a huge book sale during the event. Additionally, library officials on Monday said that nearly 40 other sales have signed up to be on the event's master map. Those who have paid to be on the master map will also receive a yard sign showing their support for the library.
    “I am hoping that the money the Friends raise will fund our summer reading program,” said Amy Stultz, who oversees operations at the Umatilla library.
    The fun runs from 8 a.m. until 2 p.m. Learn more at www.umatillalibrary.org/cwys.