MARION — The parking lot of the Marion Council on Aging was overflowing on Saturday, Oct. 7 and a crowd of people gathered to peruse the organization’s annual yard sale fundraiser.

“This is our biggest fundraiser of the year,” said Marion Council on Aging Program Coordinator Linda Jackvony. “We start collecting in August. We go through everything and price everything, clean up stuff that needs to be cleaned up.”

Shoppers browsed through tables and tables of household items, sports equipment, tools and more. The sale also included bigger items like kayaks, furniture and rugs.

This is the third annual yard sale fundraiser hosted by the Marion Council on Aging, said Jackvony.

“We sell a lot of household items [and] a lot of sporting goods,” said Jackvony, noting that children’s toys, bicycles and tricycles also sell well.

In past years the Council on Aging’s yard sale brought in an average of “around $5,000,” said Jackvony.

“All of [the money] stays at the Council on Aging,” said Jackvony. “We use it for programming, we use it [to buy stuff] for the Council on Aging … but every penny stays here at the Council on Aging.”

Jackvony credited “the community’s generosity” with the success of the yard sale.

“Without all the donations we wouldn’t have the success that we have,” “It’s a very giving community, and everybody comes from all over the place [to shop] … now that this is the third year, people look forward to [the yard sale].”