Barbara Roden
Free Press
More than 1,000 people came through this year’s Winter Arts and Crafts Fair in 100 Mile House, and co-organizer Barbara Hooper was thrilled by the attendance.
“I’m really happy the fair started when so many other events took place,” she says. “A huge number of people poured in after the Santa Claus Parade.”
The event is the 100 Mile House and District Arts Council’s major fundraiser, with the money going to local arts groups. The Arts Council also funds three $500 scholarships for Peter Skene Ogden Secondary School (PSO) students, for excellence in the literary, visual, and performing arts.
Hooper is grateful for the help of four PSO students – Shayla Mailhot, Kayla Cumiskey, Brooke Huggins and Emmett Collens – who were there for much of Nov. 20 to help set up and decorate.
The most unique display was Betty and Brian Thomas’s metal art booth. Mayor Mitch Campsall did the judging, and Hooper says he looks forward to that every year.
Photographer Monika Patterson took pictures with Santa (Graham Allison), although St. Nick wasn’t there during the parade, Hooper explains.
“He can’t be in two places at once.”