Cindy Lange-Kubick: PLEASE HELP SAVE A LIFE, Brad and his Garage Sale Angel - Lincoln Journal Star
Don Ray is resting in his blue recliner inside his oversize garage, doors open at both ends to let in the morning breeze. Books and clothes and leaf blowers and bread makers and Tonka trucks and Little Tykes toys and a department store clearance-sale-sized pile of purses. I’m donating this chair, Don tells his old friend Brad Vifquain. “I appreciate that Don,” Brad says. “I really do. ”. The garage sale starts Thursday. Fabulous Fundraiser for Brad’s New Heart. Nearly every morning, the 53-year-old drives from his north Lincoln apartment to Don’s house on Gladstone Street to drop off another load before he takes his afternoon nap. “I’m only good for a few hours,” he says. Brad was desperate when he came up with the sale idea in February. “You read about people having spaghetti feeds or have the Waffleman come out,” Brad said. “But I don’t know very many people. He knew a bit about flea markets and garage sales, though. They’d always been a good way to make a few bucks and make a few friends, too, like Don, a fellow beer can collector. Source: journalstar.com
