United Way’s Largest Garage Sale brings community together
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This article was published 16/04/2018 (2737 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
With a pair of snowshoes, a large pail and a few plastic bags full of goods in hand, Jackie and Steve Ball gave one last look around to see if there were any last minutes purchases they wanted to make.
The couple came in from Glenboro on Saturday to experience the Brandon and District United Way’s Largest Garage Sale for the first time and the pair did not leave empty-handed, bringing home sports cards, tools, and one or two things for the garden.
“We’ve done the rounds twice,” Jackie said. “I think we’re good to go.”
Started in 2009, hundreds of people came out for the United Way’s Largest Garage Sale, held in the Manitoba Room and UCT Pavilion of the Keystone Centre.
Between 2,500 and 3,000 people attend the spring sale and for Brandon and District United Way CEO Cynamon Mychasiw, she finds there is something about it that brings the community together.
“Everyone loves a garage sale and coming to this one, it’s literally like coming to 100 garage sales all in one place,” she said.
Between their spring and fall sales, Mychasiw said the Brandon and District United Way raises $15,000 to $20,000 each year from table rentals and door sales.
“It’s literally the difference between a program getting funded or not,” she said.
Some vendors, like Wayne Wilson of Brandon, who came to display some of his vintage camping and fishing equipment, have been coming to the sale nearly every year. “And spring is a good time to sell,” he said.
But for Dauphin coin collector Terry Wozney, it isn’t so much the sale that he’s looking for, but the conversations he will have with visitors.
“I enjoy talking to people and explaining the differences in coins (and) paper money,” he said.
Wozney has spent most of the past four decades collecting old Canadian and U.S. coins.
He has been to a handful of spring and fall sales in recent years and said what he enjoys the most is talking to people about the history behind the coins in his collection, in the hopes that more people, especially kids, will feel encouraged to pick up collecting themselves.
The big selling point for him is the anticipation of finding something you may not have already.
“The search is the big thing, finding it is almost secondary,” he said.
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