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If you want to attract a crowd to a garage sale, and that is the general idea, make sure you have a lot to sell and a good place to sell it.

In that case, the Lions Giant Garage Sale this weekend should be a match made in garage sale heaven.

It’s like spring training for fans of pre-owned merchandise.

There are three ways to participate as a seller. For those of you with priceless possessions taking up space in the basement, considering renting table space, giving items to the Lions as a donation or having them sell them on consignment for a 20 percent commission.

Sellers can rent space for $25 for 100 square feet for two days. Sale items should be taken to the Kiwanis Agricultural Hall at the Tanana Valley State Fairgrounds from noon to 8 p.m. Thursday or Friday.

Space is available on a first-come first-served order. You don’t have to bring your own table.

Buyers can participate by showing up Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

There will be a pancake breakfast both days starting at 9 a.m., followed by a hot lunch.

This is all for a good cause, helping raise money to support Lions Clubs projects to help people keep their eyesight.

Call Jim Matthews at 457-3537 or Tony Gasbarro at 455-6287 for more information.

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BIKE SALE: One of the attractions at the sale is the collection of nearly 100 bikes. Volunteers from the Sting Ray Swim Club, 4H, the Girl Scouts and the Fairbanks Lutheran Youth Group helped polish them.

Several members of the Lions met over the winter, as they do every year, to recondition the bikes for this annual sale.

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RELAY FOR LIFE: Thirty-seven teams with 341 walkers are signed up for the annual Relay for Life to help the American Cancer Society on May 30-31. So far, there are more than $50,000 in pledges.

The participants all have their own reasons for joining this event. For me, it’s to honor the memory of my friend Vickie Karns.

To sign up, go to www.relayforlife.org and search for the Fairbanks event.

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TEAM IN TRAINING: The Alaska Team in Training will be part of the Equinox Marathon again this year.

There are organizational meetings Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the Noel Wien Library and Saturday at 9 a.m. at Fairbanks Memorial Hospital for those who want to learn more about how to help.

This is for runners and walkers who plan to enter the marathon, which is Sept. 20, and raise money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

Last year a team of 41 people raised $141,000 to fight blood cancer, many of them doing so as a tribute to the late Susan Butcher.

For more information, go to www.teamintraining.org.

• • •  REMEMBRANCE: St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church will hold a Day of Remembrance service Saturday at noon.

This is in the tradition of the annual marches the late Shirley Dementieff started to remember the victims of unsolved murders.

For more information call Shirley Lee at 452-3094.

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CINDERELLA STORY: The North Star Ballet presents “Cinderella” this weekend, with performances Saturday at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. in Hering Auditorium.

David Zody, who just played the lead in the Lathrop High School production of “Grease,” plays Prince Charming, a role in which he alternates with Jarrin Overholt. The dancers who take turns playing Cinderella in the production are Sophia Williams and Emma Zeisel.

Fifty-two dancers are in the show, which runs for one weekend only.

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GOOD JOB: Nicholas Woolf, an eighth-grader at Barnette Magnet School, had the highest score in the state in the Academic Pentathlon. Both teams from the school did well at the state event, finishing third and fourth.

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AQUA MOON: Billed as a “feminist hip-hop writing, performance and artistic team” from Chicago, Aqua Moon is to perform Saturday at 7 p.m. in Wood Center at UAF. I’m told this is all about “Dismantling the Culture of Silence!”

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UAF HONORS: Alaska mystery writer and sometime private investigator John Straley of Sitka is to be the UAF commencement speaker next month. He’s a great speaker and the creator of Cecil Younger.

Straley is to receive an honorary doctorate along with veteran Fairbanks pilot and business leader Richard Wien, Native art expert Bill Holm of Washington and Larry Aumiller, former manager of the McNeil River State Game Sanctuary.

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GUN SHOW: The TVSA Gun Show is Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the UAF Patty Center.

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HISTORIC: On any list of important buildings in Fairbanks, the house on the west side at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Cowles Street belongs near the top.

After a three-year labor of love by Jacqueline Haydon, the historic home has been restored with great attention to historic detail. She is welcoming the public to drop by for an open house Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Haydon has opened the Alaska Heritage House Bed and Breakfast in the home where author Mary Lee Davis and other important people in Fairbanks history once lived.

The electrical and plumbing systems were replaced and the sawdust insulation was removed as part of the extensive overhaul of the building.

For information, call 456-4100.