Arts & Crafts
and
Culinary & Horticulture
VOLUNTEER
MEETING
Online Volunteer Registration Form Here>
We will be having our Arts & Crafts and Culinary &
Horticulture department volunteer’s meeting
Thursday Evening
August 9, 2012
In the Floral Hall Building
At 7:00pm
This year we have added several new features to the
department.
Scarecrow University
is a little red school house serving as a backdrop for both the scarecrow and
container garden contests and silent auctions. Fair goers attending Scarecrow
University can play with memory
card games, word searches, coloring pages, chalk board doodling and have story
time. Adults can place bids on container gardens and scarecrows to take home to
their own yard. Prizes for both the Scarecrow and Container Garden Contests
are: $100, $75 and $50 for first, second and third places.
On Children’s Day, Wednesday we will be having two new
events. Adults and children can participate in a Veggie Car Derby and an
American Girl Doll Tea Party.
In true Vermonter fashion, the new Veggie Car Derby combines
three New England passions; ingenuity, gardening and
NASCAR. The idea is that participants build their car using a variety of
produce held together with nothing but wooden tooth picks and bamboo skewers.
Bring your master piece to the race track at Floral Hall and compete with other
gardening/NASCAR enthusiasts. The competition is open to all ages.
Multi-generational pit crews are encouraged.
The American Girl Doll Tea Party begins at 3:00pm in the Arts & Crafts department. No
doll required. Children can participate in a craft project and enjoy a story
time with lemonade and cookies.
In addition to three days or crafts registrations and filling
in the daily schedule of volunteers in floral hall, I still need volunteers to
schedule shifts in Scarecrow University
and possibly assist with the American Girl Doll Tea Party depending on the
public turnout that day. I have a crew lined up to run the Veggie Car Derby but
extra help around during that event will be great.
I also still need qualified judges lined up for the
following categories:
*The new
"Heritage" category
*Baskets
*Woodcraft, Framed Art,
General Crafts,
*Some categories of
Needlework & Needlecraft (except quilting, knitting, crochet)
*Cut Flowers
*All Categories of
Preserved Foods
*Three qualified bakers to
judge the King Arthur Flour Baking Contest on FRIDAY
Please let me know if you
have any suggestions for these judges.
I look forward to seeing you on Thursday the 9th
at 7pm. In the face of the recent
break-ins vandalism and substantial graffiti I am more determined than ever to
help make this, our 145th anniversary year, even more special. With
your help I know it can happen!
