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We are right in the middle of getting ready for our annual Christmas Fair held each year on the first weekend in December at the Old Schoolhouse on Wheeler Road. This year we will be adding two additional shopping days. A special preview day will be Saturday, November 29, 10 a.m.3 p.m. We want to extend a Welcome Home invitation to all former Monroe residents who are here for Thanksgiving and give them a chance to purchase remembrances of Monroe. All of our Monroe Historical Society collectibles and books will be featured on this day. We are also adding Saturday, December 13, 10 a.m.3 p.m. for those residents and members who were not able to attend on the traditional weekend and also for those who need to return to finish their Holiday shopping. As always, the first weekend in December, will feature all of our Society collectibles and books, a tree raffle, baked goods, many handmade and donated gift items, small vintage collectibles, and much more. Please call 261-8554 or 268-5511 to arrange for delivery or pickup of items to donate for sale, to volunteer time to help decorate and display items in the Schoolhouse and/or to work during our sale days. Sale days will be December 5, 12 p.m.8 p.m., December 6, 10 a.m.4 p.m. December 13, 10 a.m.3 p.m. We are asking for baked goods for the weekend of December 5 and 6. Please call 261-8554 or 268-5511 to arrange for delivery or pickup of your homemade food items; or, bring them to the Schoolhouse on December 5 anytime after 11:00 a.m. Our baked goods are one of the top reasons people visit our fair year after year. A very special feature of this years fair will be a collection of vintage ornaments for sale. These ornaments were donated by Society member Elma Jean Wiacek and have been collected by her over the last several decades. Join us on one or more of these weekends and show your support for the Society. We had a profitable weekend at St. Peters Harvest Fair on September 6 and 7. Besides selling over $800 of Historical Society items we also had a chance to chat with residents about the work we do. We shared a space with Save Our Stepney and had many opportunities to speak with long-time residents and members and also to give information to newer residents. Thank you to everyone who helped make this annual workshop for children a success. Dates for 2004 will be announced in the spring, but you can reserve a place now by calling 268-5511. Our annual tag sale, held on June 14, was so successful that we continued it two weeks later. Since everything was already at the Schoolhouse and there were no Schoolhouse visitors scheduled during the summer it was easy to just leave things in place and continue the sale on a following weekend. Thank you to everyone who donated items, helped with the pricing and display before the sale and helped customers on the days of the sale. This is truly a group effort and is becoming one of our best fundraisers. |
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