Kate Enders and Kim Ritter were two of several volunteers who helped out for the Crofton Town Club's fair this weekend. Photos by Laura Tayman.

Community Turns Out for Familiar Craft Fair

From homemade jewelry to floral arrangements and art pieces, attendees at the Crofton Town Club’s fall craft fair had a great variety of items for their shopping pleasure. The event was held on Saturday near the grounds of the Crofton Country Club off Crofton Parkway.

“We have a lot of new vendors this year,” said Town Club president Ashley Fuchs. “We also advertised a lot more to really encourage the surrounding communities to come on out to this familiar Crofton event.”

Proceeds from the craft fair are given directly to local charities.

Community organizations were there to sell and distribute items. The Greater Crofton Chamber of Commerce provided attendees with bags of goodies from local vendors as well as their new community directory. The Crofton Kiwanis members were selling their new, as well as past, holiday ornaments.

Various churches were also participating, including selling works of art for Community United Methodist’s Zimbabwe mission and a bake sale for St. Paul Lutheran’s charity work.

Next door, at the Prince of Peace Presbyterian Church was having their annual yard and bake sale to raise money for their mission projects. The Arundel Volunteer Fire Department were also on the grounds selling their pit beef favorites to an appreciative crowd. Across the street in the Village Green, the boy scouts of Troop 758 sold out of their chicken dinners, achieving their fundraising goal.

The Town Club’s next events include a night of psychic readings and a ghost tour and pub crawl in Annapolis. Interested residents can come to one event free if you are considering joining the club. For more information, go to the Town Club’s website at www.croftontownclub.com.

Olivia Gonzalez is not too pleased with the hat mom Lindsay tries on at a Craft Fair table.	Jennifer, Alice and Heather O'Neill try some tasty treats from Laurina Holte.
Kay Osburnson and Sylvia Deck represented the Crofton Greenery Garden Club and sold boxwoods for the holidays.	Katie Sprandel shows off her new heart facepainted by volunteer Kaliah Obey for the Girl Scouts.
Lothian resident Janet Galla, owner of Trinkets N What Nots, shows off her collection to shopper Lisa Cooper.	The Riggs Family shops at a halloween inspired booth display run by Lisa List and Kelsey Sippel.
The Crofton Kiwanis table was a busy site, thanks to their holiday ornaments sale.	Daniel Brady shows off some of his homemade lollipops he was selling to raise money for the Johns Hopkins Oncology Center.
Ed White, Tom Locke, and John Hollywood represented the Greater Crofton Chamber of Commerce and the Crofton Kiwanis for the day.	Members of the Arundel Volunteer Fire Department provided truck tours throughtout the day.
Other AVFD members were busy selling their popular pit beef sandwiches. Volunteers Chuck Gross and Stephanie Jamieson manned the bun table.	Bill McWhirter and Melissa Hildebrand provided help to customers supporting the church's bake sale for the Prince of Peace Presbyterian Church's mission projects.