Lil’ Angels Attic consignment sale has gone “high-tech” for its fall event that starts Friday.

Organizer Michelle Wheeler can tell you the exact number of items that are registered for the sale and bar-coded into a new checkout system - 26,385.

Those items are from a record 222 sellers.

“That’s a big increase,” Wheeler said. “I think we had 190 show up for the spring sale.”

Lil’ Angels Attic - a ministry of Broadway United Methodist Church, where the sale is held - donates its proceeds to area charities.

Nearly $30,000 in cash and merchandise was donated from the spring sale to ministries and charities including schools, family enrichment centers and others.

Sellers get to keep 70 percent of their sales, while 30 percent goes to the ministry for distribution to charity. So total spring sales were right at $100,000, Wheeler said.

Organizations also receive vouchers to use to shop; and at the end of the sale, some sellers chose to donate unsold merchandise that also is distributed.

This year, buyers can add $1 onto their bills called the Heaven Cent. That money will go toward this year’s selected charity, which is Blessings Unleashed.

The area organization raises and trains service dogs for autistic children all across the country.

“To raise one dog from a puppy until it gets into child’s hand costs $7,500,” Wheeler said. “They need people to help who have any kind of gift or talent.”

Wheeler said Dana Hall, the organization’s founder, is volunteering with the sale.

“I’ve been doing it for about six years,” said Hall, who lives outside Park City. “I love what they stand for and their mission. I have young children so it’s a great way for me to get rid of things they don’t need anymore and to get new things for the next season.”

Hall said she was ecstatic when she learned her organization would be the recipient of Heaven Cent funds.

“This is the best thing that has happened to the organization since I started it (a year and a half ago),” she said. “We just got our (nonprofit) status a couple of weeks ago so this will be our first official fundraiser. To be chosen by such a good ministry is an added bonus.”

So far Blessings has placed seven dogs with children.

“Before now I have basically been doing it myself, so it’s been financially draining,” Hall said.

Now she has applications for three more dogs and how many more she can place will depend on funding and volunteers, she said.

Hall said she won’t be selling at Lil’ Angels this time but is still volunteering and is looking forward to shopping at tonight’s preview sale for volunteers.

At this year’s sale, there are the usual children’s clothing for all ages and lots of bigger items.

“We have 47 strollers, 24 high chairs and 19 cribs,” she said.

“I think this is going to be a big sale with the way the economy is and especially since people know we strive to have the highest quality merchandise,” Wheeler said. “We have reasonably priced items that are about one-third of what they would cost new.”

This year longer sale hours have been added on Friday so that people don’t have to try to get there right at the beginning.

“If you don’t like shopping the day after Thanksgiving, don’t come at 9 a.m.,” she said. “Come at 11 or after lunch. There will be plenty of good shopping all day Friday and Saturday.”

About 275 people are volunteering to help man the sale from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday (that’s an hour longer than some of the signs say) and from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday (when many items will be half-off). There will be a free car safety check from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Friday at the church, 1323 Melrose St., in conjunction with the sale.

“We just need shoppers to come out because we have really stepped it up,” Wheeler said.

— For more information, visit www.lilangelsattic.org. For more information about Hall’s organization, visit www.blessingsunleashed.org.