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Treasures big and small found at state warehouse

Outside a windowless warehouse just south of the Dane County Regional Airport, 54 people stood in the rain. It was a Friday in December and it was not quite 8 a.m. Every week the warehouse receives about seven semitrailer truckloads of surplus items from state agencies and state universities. And every week the items are sold by the University of Wisconsin-Madison�s Division of Business Services through a program called Surplus With a Purpose.