Bazaar features crafts and artisan foods for holiday gifts
<p>Shoppers at the Heritage Museum Holiday Bazaar peruse wares in front of bits and pieces of Libby’s history. The Bazaar is the major fundraiser for the museum, helping to pay for insurance, heating costs and other essentials to keep it afloat.</p>
<p>Larry Hebenstreit spins tickets for a prize raffle Saturday.</p>
<p>The faces behind the food at the cookhouse prepared warm, tasty food for Bazaar-goers Saturday afternoon.</p>
<p>Folks lined up at the heritag Museum’s Cookhouse to get some delicious food before shopping for crafts in the adjacent building. Pulled pork, sausages and burgers could be slathered with grilled onions for hungry patrons.</p>
<p>A large crowd showed up at the Heritage Museum.</p>
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Eight years ago, when Laurie Mari took control of the Heritage Museum’s Holiday Bazaar, there were around 13 vendors selling crafts as part of the Museum’s biggest fundraiser.
Last weekend, 25 vendors, filling tables with homemade crafts, helped keep the Museum open for another winter.
The bazaar is the largest fundraiser of the year for the donation-based Heritage Museum.
Each vendor pays $25 to secure a table, plus 10 percent of all sales, an arrangement that works just fine for both parties.
A door-prize drawing that had to be stamped at every table allowed for extra exposure for every vendor.
Mari estimated this year may have been less-well attended, but still accomplished the Museum’s goal to keep it open in 2013.