Teaching Fair set at Village Green

The seventh annual Children's Teaching Fair will be held on Saturday, July 18 at Sisters Village Gree Park from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Featured free craft and educational booths include, pottery at the wheel, pencil rubbings, soap docorating, mask making, rice art, marshmallow art, science booth, tie-dye, calf roping, and an African booth with hands-on African items and instruments.

Sisters Little Cloverdale Preschool will sponsor a play area with bubbles and playdough. Sisters Together for Children will host play water paddle boats for children to wind up and shoot through the water.

Game booths include a dart throw, bean bag toss, ring toss, plant walk, fish pond, lollipop tree, kid's bingo, milk bottle throw, duck pond, face painting, and the highlight of the fair, the dunk tank.

Sisters School District teachers will take turns on the throne waiting to be dunked by their fans. (Children who want to be dunked in the dunk tank will need a waiver with a parent's signature. These waivers will be available at the fair).

"Sisters Act" hits "Marimba Madness" will perform throughout the fair and the Booher Family will be on hand with fiddles.

The Kiwanis Club of Sisters will sell hamburgers, hot dogs, chips and cold drinks. Sno cones will top off the carnival atmosphere. Several raffles items will be available including a "Princess" Beany Baby and a hand-crafted quilt.

The event is sponsored by Sisters Good Samaritan Ministries, a local branch of Good Samaritan Ministries International based in Beaverton, Oregon. Over 100 volunteers are involved with the Teaching Fair and local merchants have donated merchandise and cash.

Profits from the Children's Teaching Fair's have provided the ongoing tuition and book fees for orphans, Amina Kyibula, age 12, and David Muebuzi, age 15, of Uganda, Africa.

For more information or to volunteer call 549-1608 or 549-1149.