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All proceeds from the sales go directly back into the community, supporting the organization's outreach and service programs.

“It helps the community so we can be able to do our programs that we do with feeding and our after school programs,” said Captain Charity Bender of the Lima Salvation Army.

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Along the way, people looking for deals can find special areas, where hundreds of vendors are set up. Here locally, we have one of those vendor stops at the Wan Wert County Fairgrounds. Vendors were setting up on Wednesday for a busy weekend, which has become a tradition over the years at the fairgrounds.

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Residents in nearby Van Wert and Mercer counties are getting ready to take part of the 700-mile yard sale that runs through six states. The four day event known as '127 Yard Sale' returns Thursday. It starts in Alabama and runs through Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio before finishing in Michigan. The event's website says the yard sale was founded in 1987 by a man who wanted travelers to bypass interstate highways in favor of scenic routes that took them through rural communities.