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CHS senior class hosts annual craft show
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Neighbors | Abby Slanker.Canfield High School Circuit Birds Robotics Team members, from left, Donald Cutrer, Bobby Hudock and Riley Ayers, demonstrated the team’s 3-D printer at the 27th annual Canfield High School Craft Show Dec. 5. The students 3-D printed holiday ornaments which were for sale and were selling baked goods to raise money for their upcoming competition season.
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Neighbors | Abby Slanker.Canfield High School students volunteered to help with the 27th annual Canfield High School Craft Show, sponsored by the senior class, Dec. 5.
By ABBY SLANKER
The Canfield High School class of 2016 carried on the tradition of sponsoring the school’s 27th annual Craft Show on Dec. 5. The show, which offered 199 vendors, is the sole senior class fundraiser, attracting thousands of shoppers, who before the doors were opened, lined up and wrapped around the high school.
The vendors offered a variety of wares, including holiday items and crafts, homemade candles, dog treats, clothing, photo art, homemade soaps and lotions, homemade baked goods, Canfield Cardinals items, jewelry, Pittsburgh Steelers, Cleveland Browns and Ohio State items and handmade hats, scarves, gloves and mittens.
Senior class co-advisors Anthony Holben and Candy Reed helped the senior class officers plan the event, but according to Holben, the students and their parents do much of the work.
“The parents of our class officers do a lot of the work and are involved in the planning of the show. They work the concession stand and are in charge of the Chinese auction and the 50/50 raffle. The class officers recruit other students from all grade levels to volunteer to help and they can earn community service credits as members of service clubs, such as the National Honor Society and Leos,” Holben said.
Senior Class Officer Morgan Leonard said many students volunteer, but most are seniors because they want to support their senior class.
“We have lots of seniors here volunteering because the seniors want to support each other. They know that they will have to put for the effort to get what they want out of our senior year,” Leonard said.
The money raised from the craft show is used for several activities at the school, including two dances sponsored by the senior class, the graduation ceremony, the senior class gift to the school and donations to local charities, such as Canfield CareNet, which benefits local families.
“We give a lot of the money raised here back to the school. This year we gave the school money for the renovations at the front of the school, including rejuvenating the high school sign in the southeast corner of the school and several trees around the parking lot. We are also helping with the upgrade of the sound system for the auditorium. We want to help with that project because there is not a student in Canfield High School who doesn’t experience the sound in the auditorium so improving that benefits all students,” Holben said.
Holben also said about 60 percent of vendors are repeat vendors and they sign up this year for next year’s craft show, as evidenced by kettle corn vendor Phil Fisher.
“I have been doing this for 16 years and the Canfield High School Craft Show is one of the better and nicest craft shows in the area,” Fisher said.