Second "Harvest Faire" scheduled for Sisters

A second "harvest faire" will be held Saturday, October 10, on Hood Avenue and Ash Street.

The Homespun Harvest Faire will be open from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Hood Avenue between Ash and Oak streets, and one-half block of Ash Street north of Hood will be closed at 6 p.m. on Friday, October 9, until 7 p.m. Saturday October 10. The closure was approved by the Sisters City Council on September 17.

All vendors for the show have been juried and each produce fine hand-crafted and one-of-a-kind items. Items will include clothing, toys, art works, photography, woodworking, pottery, specialty foods and more. Gift wrapping and package checking will be available.

The one-day craft show on the traditional weekend of the Sisters Chamber of Commerce's Harvest Faire is in response to the public interest in an October event.

After 16 years of being an October event, this year was the first time the Sisters Chamber of Commerce's Harvest Faire was moved to September, According to chamber manager Mardyth Peterson, the chamber event will be moved back to October next year.

The "Homespun Harvest Arts and Craft Fair" is sponsored by Homespun Gals and Sagewood Waldorf School.

Homespun Gals is a group of craft vendors with experience producing shows in the Willamette Valley. Sagewood Waldorf School is a non-profit elementary and early childhood school in Bend.

For more information contact Evelyn Brush at 330-8841.