Easter Market Welcomes Spring

Easter Market Welcomes Spring

Rosanne Fortier - News Correspondent

Vegreville Farmers’ Market offered their first Easter Market for the 2022 season on April 1 at Vegreville Elks Hall.

This market had 12 vendors that were selling everything from Ukrainian Easter baking, chocolate, crochet items, fresh eggs and more.

Manager Marlene Giebelhaus said they host these markets because winter has been long this year and they want to celebrate spring by having people get out and find food and spring products to buy to ease their Easter’s preparations.

“These markets are an introduction to Easter and spring is new life and this is our way to bring spring into the community,” said Giebelhaus.

Prescilla Barleta was selling her homemade peach mango pie, custard cakes, chicken and beef empanada, vegetable, beef, chicken and pork spring rolls, rice noodles and more. “Cooking is my passion and I have been cooking since I was 10-years-old. “ Don Hultolm was selling fresh eggs and pickled eggs from his farm.

People of all ages enjoy the first Farmers’ Market of 2022.

(Rosanne Fortier/Photo)

Eka Roeben has been crocheting since she was six-years-old and she had a variety of crocheted items. One seasonal product she had were crochet chickens which had an egg inside that people could fill up with a treat for a child.

Christine Giebelhaus was the vendor for Colorstreet which is a product that is dry nail polish. “This is 100 percent nail polish and it is already 95 percent cured in the packages and it is an easy manicure that can be done in 10 minutes. You just put this product on your nails.”

Vendor for Lamplighter Books & Gifts, Marlene Giebelhaus, had many children books available about spring and Easter.

Sharon Lozoway was selling Ukrainian baking for Stenia Jarzabek.