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By Jackie Blankenship
Although we have several baskets to enter in the
Wood Festival Basket Competition, we are quite a
ways from our goal of 21 for a Basket Bingo. We
have had to postpone the date for the Bingo due
to all the other Basket Bingos Scheduled, but we
do plan to go ahead with the competition and we
will schedule the Bingo when we can find an open
date. We would like to have MORE baskets
submitted for competition and hope that since the
deadline has been extended, others will want to
participate.
Attention all Basket Makers:
The 2003 Wood Festival will be having a Handmade
Basket Competition! The chosen basket will
be displayed each year and will be given a brass
marker inscribed with Wood Festival Basket 2003,
the winning basket creator will receive
$100. Second and Third place baskets will
receive ribbons, however, will be included in the
Basket Bingo selections. All basket entries will
become property of the Calhoun Wood Festival and
all but the first place basket will be used in a
Fund Raising Basket Bingo .
Rules are simple: Enter as many baskets as you
want, any type basket you want, from simple
to elaborate construction, small
or large, round or square. YOU are the
creator, anything goes!
Baskets will be judged by Betty Nesslerode and a
committee of her choice.
Our goal is a minimum of 22 baskets entered. In
order to have 1 basket selected as the WOOD
FESTIVAL 2003 Basket, one for raffle and 20 for
the Basket Bingo Fund Raiser we need a minimum of
22 baskets entered. If there are not enough
baskets entered for the Bingo Fund Raiser, the
competition will still be done, however, the fund
raiser will not be held and the non-winning
baskets will be returned to their creators. The
$100 will not be given to the winner if there is
no Fund Raising Basket Bingo and if that is the
case, the winning basket will be given back to
creator if requested.
For additional information please contact: Paige
Toney 354-6313
Jackie Blankenship 354-6671
Sue Oshoway 354-9204
Trina Beall 354-6649
Thanks so much for participating in the first
ever Wood Festival Basket Competition! We
appreciate your continued support of the Calhoun
Wood Festival.
Basket Bingo will be held as soon as an open date
that is not close to another basket bingo can be
found? ? The announcement of the 2003 Wood
Festival Basket will be done during the Wood
Festival.
Ms. Nesslerode is the owner and creator
of Acorn Crafts in Parkersburg, West Virginia.
Ms. Nesslerode carries a complete supply of
basket materials and also teaches basket classes.
Betty has many copyrighted basket patterns that
are available from her shop or online. She is a
highly respected Basket Creator.
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