AT DISTRICT, TIME WAITS FOR NO STOOL (OR RISOGRAPH).Byline: Karen Maeshiro Daily News Staff Writer For sale: rickety rick·et·y adj. rick·et·i·er, rick·et·i·est 1. Likely to break or fall apart; shaky. 2. Feeble with age; infirm. 3. Of, having, or resembling rickets. lab stools, Betamax video machines, filmstrip film·strip n. A length of film containing a series of photographs, diagrams, or other graphic matter prepared for still projection. filmstrip n → tira de diapositivas projectors and library books that haven't been checked out since bell bottoms were popular the first time around. Mojave Unified School District A unified school district is a school district which includes both primary school (kindergarten through middle school or junior high) and high school (grades 9-12). In Illinois, these districts are called unit school districts. will clean house this fall, holding a ``giant garage sale'' to sell off old library books, furniture and equipment no longer in use. ``Most of the stuff will have very little value,'' Superintendent Wallace McCormick said. ``We're dealing with crap, a couple thousand dollars. I would be surprised if it gets to that. This is a housecleaning house·clean·ing n. 1. The cleaning and tidying of a house and its contents. 2. Informal Removal of unwanted personnel, methods, or policies in an effort at reform or improvement. , not a profit-making venture.'' No date or exact property list has been set for the sale. After schools come up with a list of items they want to dispose of To determine the fate of; to exercise the power of control over; to fix the condition, application, employment, etc. of; to direct or assign for a use. See also: Dispose , the district's first public sale will likely be held in the parking lot of Mojave High School. The money raised, if any, will go back to the school from which the items came. School workers, McCormick said, like to tuck things away, and they pile up year after year. The items can be sold to the public after they have been declared surplus property, McCormick said. ``Some of these places have got stuff from 30 years ago,'' McCormick said. The range of items that could be put on the block include laboratory stools that don't stand up very well, desks that have been welded so many times they can't be welded anymore and athletic equipment no longer being used, like worn-out softballs. Also available is a football blocking sled, which the community's youth football team has its eyes on. Diana Satterfield, secretary at Mojave High School, has been working on the school's list of used stuff. They include ``ancient'' film strip machines that have been in storage for about 10 years, and Betamax videotape players from the 1980s. ``There's nothing on film strip anymore,'' Satterfield said. Other old equipment includes a risograph machine, a type of duplicating machine duplicating machine , duplicator n → multicopista m duplicating machine , duplicator n → duplicateur m . ``Most of the furniture we use until it dies. We use old ones for spare parts Spare parts, also referred to as Service Parts is a term used to indicate extra parts available and in proximity to the mechanical item, such as a automobile, boat, engine, for which they might be used. Spare parts are also called “spares. ,'' Satterfield said. She said the school has library books that haven't been checked out since the 1960s and '70s. The school will offer them to surrounding schools, and if there are no takers, they will be declared surplus. |
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