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Start cleaning out your garages!
Saturday May 30th, 2009
8am to 2pm
2009 marks our 8th annual garage sale. As always the RNA will pay for advertising in the local papers (The Lance, Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg Sun), and signs will be hung at the Bishop Grandin & Southglen entrances to Royalwood.
To participate just open your garage door, sell your items, and keep all of the money you make. There is no cost to participate.
 After the sale is over the Salvation Army will be setting up a truck or trailer for residents to donate unsold items. Stay tuned for more details about location and times.
Consumer Product Safety
Garage Sale Hints
· Check your house, attic, basement, garage and shed for hidden 'treasures' that you no longer need.
· Label and price everything
· Remember you can always come down in price but you are likely to have a problem if you try to go up.
· Be prepared to bargain
· Clean items sell easier than grimy ones.
· Clearly mark items not for sale
· Have an extension cord handy if you are selling
electrical appliances
· Keep expensive items close by so that you can keep an eye on them.
· The hours are 8:00am to 2:00pm, but people may be knocking on your door before you are ready for them. Be courteous and ask them to wait until you are ready. Stay in control of your own sale.
· Keep your front and back doors locked if you are selling out of your garage, a distraction could let in unwanted visitors.
· Watch your money! Keep it with you, wear a fanny pack with change in it. Have lots of coins and small bills available for change. Work in pairs, if possible.
· Have grocery bags ready for the items you sell. Also old newspapers for fragile articles.
· Have fun and look as if you're having fun. Customers love to buy from happy sellers.
City of Winnipeg 311 Service
 One easy to remember phone number to access information or request City of Winnipeg non-emergency services. Open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, the Centre will operate Winnipeg’s new citizen inquiry service, designed to provide citizens with the opportunity to ask questions about, or to request any non-emergency city service at their convenience. Customer Service Representatives will be available day or night to answer inquiries from the public, in both official languages.
You can reach any non-emergency City service by calling 311. For your information, some sample services are listed below:
- Transit: bus information; Navigo; Schedules; fare info; complaints and commendations for Transit Services, Policies and Bus Operators
- Roadway Construction and Maintenance: snow removal; potholes; roads, sidewalks, streets and back lanes; bridge construction & repair; graffiti
- Transportation Planning and Traffic Management: traffic lights; traffic signs; traffic flow, etc.
- Water: drinking/tap water; water quality; turn off my water; concerns about water; watermain breaks; pipes coming into homes/buildings, etc.
- Fire and Injury Prevention: Fire Code info/complaints; ambulance billing inquiries, open air burning, locked key box information, permits and inspection billing inquiries
- Parking Authority: parking tickets; parking meters; City-owned parking lots; parking on street
Garage Sale another Success!
Saturday May 31st, 2008
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