Kale peppermints are just one of five kinds of healthy dog biscuits made by the youth of St. David's Anglican Church for tomorrow's Christmas Craft Fair. Picked fresh from the church's Jubilee Community Garden, the kale used in the biscuits is truly "locally grown." Pumpkin balls, flax seed snaps, bacon sticks and banana breath busters are other biscuit flavours available for purchase.
Again this year, the fair will bring together artists and artisans, knitters and bakers, Tsawwassen Shopping Centre's Coastal Olive Oils, Gogo Grannies and Ten Thousand Villages. It will also feature gift baskets (by silent auction) and a book sale.
Grandmothers for Grandmothers (Gogos) work in support of grandmothers in sub-Saharan Africa by fashioning quality crafts to sell at events and to each other. One of their best sellers is a fabric tote bag, which is always an attractive feature of the South Fraser group's stall at the fair.
The good works of Ten Thousand Villages are equally well known and St. David's will once again showcase unique handcrafted items brought to Canada under the organization's fair trade policy.
The music of parishioner Tom Morrison's harp will welcome fair goers as they enter the church, where marine artist John Horton and his wife Mary plan to display and sell Christmas cards on behalf of the Canadian Lifeboat Institution.
Vendor tables will stretch from the vestibule through the lounge to the parish hall. It is there the bake table, piled-high with frozen fruit pies and all manner of homemade kitchen favourites, expects to do a bumper business.
The fair will run from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 1115-51A St., Tsawwassen.
