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Senior class craft show a big success
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Neighbors | Abby Slanker.All grade levels of Canfield High School students volunteered to help with the 23rd annual Canfield High School Craft Show Dec. 3. Co-adviser Anthony Holben (back right), guided the students in planning the event.
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The 23rd annual Canfield High School Craft Show, sponsored by the senior class, had 205 vendors offering a wide variety of merchandise.
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Attendees of the 23rd annual Canfield High School Craft Show had a choice of more than 200 Chinese Auction baskets and items which they could win.
By ABBY SLANKER
Canfield High School’s 23rd annual Craft Show, sponsored by the senior class, boasted 205 vendors and attracted more than 3,000 shoppers Dec. 3.
The vendors offered a variety of items from holiday crafts to art prints, jewelry to quilts and afghans and baked goods to clothing.
Co-advisers Anthony Holben and Candy Reed helped the students plan the event, but according to Holben, the students do much of the work.
“There are 12 senior class officers and they each hand-pick two friends to help them and I refer to them all as the A-team. Then the officers visit each homeroom to ask for volunteers from each of the grade levels and this year we have 150 student volunteers,” Holben said.
Holben also said many students receive community service credits as members of service clubs, such as the National Honor Society.
The senior class officers’ parents are also very much involved in the planning and execution of the show. The parents are in charge of organizing the Chinese auction and running the concession stand the day of the show.
The Chinese auction offered more than 200 baskets, with 158 coming from families of senior students. Local businesses, including Millcreek Golf, HH Gregg, Mountaineer Gaming and Resorts, Kaleel Bros., Ange Nettas, Komara Jewelry, Stacey Studio, Handel’s Ice Cream, Broad Street Diner and Westgate Pizza, also donated baskets and items to the auction. Several vendors participating in the craft show also donated items.
The Canfield Police Department, Mahoning County Sheriff’s Department, Canfield Fire Department, Canfield High School Administrations, Canfield District Administrations, Canfield High School secretary staff and Canfield High School custodial staff also donated items to the auction.
According to Holben, customers were in a buying mood this year.
“The number of items going out the door this year is greater than last year. It’s a buyer’s market in there. We have great vendors — about 70 percent are repeat vendors,” Holben said.
The money raised from the craft show is used for several activities at the school, including the Sweetheart Dance, Junior/Senior banquet, graduation, the senior class gift to the school and a donation to a charitable organization. Proceeds are also used to fund the start of next year’s show.