Guillaume Laflamme, LJI Reporter

The town of Bryson held its annual community yard sale event on Saturday, organized by the town’s municipality.
Throughout the town, tables could be seen spread across driveways and front lawns as community members attempted to get rid of unwanted items that may have surfaced during spring cleaning, in exchange for a few dollars.
Lynette Harris was one of the people participating in the yard sale. She is trying to downsize and was getting rid of some of her grandchildren’s toys and books, her husband’s golf balls, paintings and a collection of aloe vera plants she had accumulated.
“It’s not just necessarily my stuff. It’s my children’s stuff and my grandchildren’s stuff,” Harris said. “My daughter lives in the city, and she can’t have a yard sale in her apartment building, so she gives me her stuff to sell.”
Another vendor, Sylvain LaSalle, travelled from Gatineau to his parents’ home in Bryson to help them sell some of the belongings they no longer needed in their old age. This was his third year using the yard sale to help his parents declutter.
“There’s things that I said would never sell, but they did,” LaSalle said, surprised.
The event also featured free trees being handed out at the Bryson Municipal Hall. Joanne Ralston, council member for Bryson, was handing out yellow birch and sugar maple saplings in celebration of tree and forest day, as well as informational pamphlets on a variety of topics related to the environment.
“We’re putting out information regarding recycling, composting, waste management, and turtles here,” Ralston said. “We all know that environmental issues are even more in the media right now.”