Crafts and Everything for Christmas in November

Crafts and Everything for Christmas in November

Rosanne Fortier News Correspondent

To create a world-class, one-stop Christmas shopping experience, Vegreville and District Chamber of Commerce partnered with Vegreville Agricultural Society Pysanka Park Market and Prairie Tails Animal Rescue Society to present Christmas in November at Vegreville Social Centre on November 16.

This was a sold-out sale featured over 50 tables of crafts, decorations, fresh baking, frozen foods, jewelry, unique crafted items and much more.

Bev Aberhart was one of the vendors who was with her granddaughters-Marion and Rose Rusteika. Marion and Rose were selling meringue pops, chocolate bark, and meringue cookies which were all homemade. Bev sold crocheted dish cloths, quilts, necklaces, bracelets, chokers, and skrunchies she made.

Another vendor, Colleen Pidzarko-Armitage had a table full of everything Minky which included Minky blankets and adult and baby quilts, as well as, Minky scarves and wheat bags.

Dena Peters who just moved to Vegreville a few months ago had a table full of acrylic paintings she created on birch barks. Many of the items she made also had bohemian waxwing on them.

No Christmas would be complete without a spot where children could have their photos taken with Santa.

One of the youngest children to have their photo captured was 11 month old, Elena Wartena.

Prairie Tails Animal Rescue Society was the beneficiary of the proceeds from the photos with Santa while the event also collected donations for Vegreville Christmas Bureau and The Vegreville Food Bank.