"There is a little bit of something for everybody, and there are always bargains to be found at the auctions," said Tom Walsh, describing the Penryn Fire Company and Limerock School mud sale. "You never know what you're going to find."

The mud sale will be held on Friday, March 17, and Saturday, March 18, at the fire company, 1441 N. Penryn Road, Manheim. Friday's activities will kick off at noon, and Saturday's events will begin at 8:30 a.m.

Starting at noon on Friday, chicken barbecue dinners will be available for people to pick up, said Walsh, who is the chair of the mud sale committee. "Later in the afternoon, by 5 p.m., they can sit and dine in or take it to go," he stated.

At 5:30 p.m. on Friday, the auctions will start. Friday evening's auctions will feature grocery items, including frozen meat. A tool auction will also be held on Friday.

Multiple auctions will take place on Saturday. "We are expanding quite a few categories this year," Walsh stated. "We'll have crafts and quilts, shrubs and trees, tools again, antiques and collectibles, produce, sporting goods, sheds and swing sets."

Food will be available all day on Saturday. "We'll serve more chicken barbecue dinners, subs, hamburgers, hot dogs, breakfast sandwiches, sausage sandwiches, chicken corn soup, drinks and assorted baked goods," Walsh remarked. "These are the good Amish baked goods."

Penryn Fire Company held its first mud sale in 2006. Proceeds will benefit both the fire company and the Limerock Parochial School, which is the Amish school network in the area. "It would be impossible for us as a fire company to do this by ourselves," Walsh noted. "We were approached by the Amish community in 2005, and they asked if we'd be interested in doing this for both them and the fire company, and we wholeheartedly signed up for it."

As long as weather conditions cooperate, parking will be available on-site for Friday only. On Saturday, parking will be available at three local church lots: White Oak Church, 1211 N. Penryn Road; Jerusalem Church, 1620 Newport Road; or Manheim BIC, 54 N. Penryn Road. Shuttle buses will transport people to and from the mud sale.

For more information on the mud sale, including pictures of auction items, visit http://www.penrynfire.com or search for "Penryn Fire Company No. 1" on Facebook.