A few of the warm winter coats available at the American Rescue Workers in Williamsport. KAREN VIBERT-KENNEDY/Sun-Gazette

Tucked away on the sixth floor of the American Rescue Workers building is a treasure trove of various items.

Vintage board games from the 1970s.

Authentic Cabbage Patch kids from the height of their popularity in the 1980s.

Railroad lamps that were used in the 1930s.

Antique salt and pepper shaker sets from throughout the decades.

Vintage sets of golf clubs.

Tons and tons of unsorted baseball and football cards from throughout the decades.

They come in occasionally through donations to the American Rescue Workers. And they sit on the sixth floor as the organization tries to figure out the best way to sell them. That’s when American Rescue Workers director of development and community engagement Jennifer Rempe had an idea.

The sixth floor is known as the vault to Rempe and her staff, and now they’re going to open the vault for treasure hunters.

“A new cool thing we’re doing is we’re calling them vault events where we’re opening the vault,” Rempe said. “I’ve been here for four months and all I see is merchandise that needs to get out to somebody.”

The event is meant to help encourage those who enjoy treasure hunting for finds in thrift stores. The events will not be open to the public, but rather will be exclusive, pre-planned events with a person or group of people — anywhere from 4 to 10 — who would like to treasure hunt.

Rempe noted that the date and time for each vault event can be mutually agreed upon.

“We envision having several a month for the foreseeable future,” Rempe said.

Anyone who would be interested in exploring the vault and the numerous old vintage and antique items can contact Rempe at jennifer.rempe@arwwilliamsport.org.

“You could be a regular purveyor of baseball cards or golf clubs (for example). We have some people and folks coming in who want to go treasure hunting,” Rempe said of the August event. “Let them have at it and dig through stuff and buy what they want.”

Rempe sees the event as helping to build up the American Rescue Workers for another 90 years as the organization celebrates its 90th birthday in September.

“That’s the name of our game,” Rempe said. “We do send some stuff to the thrift stores, so that treasure hunt is still kind of happening in the thrift stores because that’s an important part of thrift store culture,” Rempe said. “But there’s so many things that have so much value, so we do have to sort it and send it to the right market.”