Community spirit was on display at the 30th Chimacum Arts and Crafts Fair over the weekend as well as the Festival of Lights at the Unity Spiritual Enrichment Center Port Townsend.
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The second annual Chimacum Community Portrait drew a crowd Saturday, Dec. 10 at Chimacum High School during the opening ceremony for the 30th Chimacum Arts and Crafts Fair. Prints are available at the Chimacum Corner Farmstand and Farm’s Reach Cafe. Photo courtesy David Conklin
Renee Woods (left) and Jordyn Johnson of Chimacum High School sell “cookies in a jar” at the Chimacum Arts and Crafts Fair to help raise funds for a program that provides health care for children in Haiti. Photo by Allison Arthur
Polly Fish sells her Emmies oatmeal cookies named after a woman who owned a restaurant on East 37th Street in New York City. She’s been known to run out of cookies in one day and go home and bake more cookies the night before the second day of the two-day Chimacum Arts and Crafts Fair. Photos by Allison Arthur
Moira Bates strolls through the Chimacum Arts and Crafts Fair on Sunday, selling apple pie and strawberry-rhubarb pie to support her project.
Diane DiPrete sells doggie sweaters and slippers, all upcycled from cast-away sweaters, at the Festival of Lights at the Unity Spiritual Enrichment Center in Port Townsend.
Teresa Goldsmith and Laurie Calderhead help pick homemade cookies at the Unity Spiritual Enrichment Center’s Festival of Lights event.
Alexa Sunshine Rose of Sol Food in Port Townsend offers a smorgasbord of beautiful chocolates and other raw foods at the Chimacum Arts and Crafts Fair. Photo by Allison Arthur
Community spirit was on display at the 30th Chimacum Arts and Crafts Fair over the weekend as well as the Festival of Lights at the Unity Spiritual Enrichment Center Port Townsend.
Danny Milholland of Thunderbull Productions was ecstatic at the turnout of the Chimacum fair, estimating that 2,700 people ventured into the Chimacum High School commons and gym over the weekend.
Admission fees brought in $4,000 on Saturday, which was the same amount that the fair had made in two days in 2015. Another $2,000 was made on Sunday, Dec. 11. Overall, vendors grossed more than $87,000, Milholland said.
What Milholland was most proud of was the collaboration between the fair and other organizations as well as businesses in Chimacum.
Finnriver Orchard & Cider Garden, Chimacum Corner Farmstand, Farm’s Reach Cafe and Chimacum Cafe as well as the crafts vendors at the Tri-Area Community Center and the Chimacum Grange were all promoted as part of the event. And all were reportedly doing a brisk business.
“We want to make it more of a Chimacum holiday extravaganza,” Milholland said of the goal to bring the community together.
There also was a good turnout for a community photo, taken during the opening ceremony that included two marching bands, Milholland said.
Inside the commons, where the Jefferson County Democratic party held its highly political and sometimes tense event a week earlier, there were dozens of local vendors from throughout Jefferson County selling their handmade products, from soaps made of goat milk to cookies to glassworks and clayworks.
Students in Chimacum sold a variety of items, from holiday cards to candles to cookie mixes to apple pie, to support various good causes.
Proceeds from fair admissions go to support education programs in the Chimacum schools.
The Festival of Lights at the Unity Spiritual Enrichment Center in Port Townsend featured a silent auction, handmade items from a number of vendors and a smorgasbord of homemade holiday cookies.
Organizers couldn’t be reached for comment Dec. 12 on how the festival went financially, but at the event on Friday, people were enjoying a large selection of cookies as well as the crafts.
