Gretzky family’s goal: to clean house

FIRST Cher, then Ozzy, now the Great One?

Last year the pop singer and actress auctioned off her old Goth furnishings, and earlier this month, Osbourne and wife Sharon announced that they plan to shed some belongings with a sale of their own. Now hockey legend Wayne Gretzky and wife Janet have scheduled an estate sale for Saturday, when they will unload furniture, decorative accessories and other belongings from the 18,000-square-foot Lake Sherwood home the couple recently sold to former major leaguer Lenny Dykstra. All proceeds from the estate sale will benefit the Gretzkys’ children’s schools.

“I was clearing out and cleaning out the house, and I decided we had to have a sale,” Janet Gretzky said. “We marked some boxes to keep and some to sell, and before I knew it, I had hundreds of boxes for sale.”

Tables, chairs, rugs, a Ralph Lauren couch, lamps, mirrors -- it’s all going, along with a Vespa motor scooter, off-road vehicles, bikes, skates, toys and kids’ clothing.

“With five kids, I could go on and on,” Janet Gretzky said, adding that the couple also went through seven storage units and 20 years’ worth of belongings, including pieces from their former New York apartment and Beverly Hills house.

Money from the sale will go to Carden Conejo School and Oaks Christian School. The latter will use proceeds to build a baseball stadium, which school officials say will be shared with Westlake Village community sports programs.

The sale will start at 7 a.m. at Oaks Christian’s Bedrosian Pavilion, 31749 La Tienda Drive, Westlake Village. For information, call (818) 575-9150.

-- Times staff writer