By JEFF SAULTON
The Parkersburg News and Sentinel
MINERAL WELLS, W.Va. — While attendance didn’t pick up until later the first day, the West Virginia Interstate Fair and Exposition was a beehive of activity as vendors were finishing setting up and making last minute adjustments on Tuesday.
(Photo by Jeff Saulton)
Angie Zoller, board of directors member for the West Virginia Interstate Fair and Exposition, said this year’s fairgoers will notice a few changes and they will see more vendors along the fairway.
“We’ve been improving on what we have,” she said. “There’s a new cover for our stage and we have tripled our crafters this year. We’re just improving on what we’ve had in the past.”
One vendor who has been at the fair said Mineral Wells was a regular stop for them.
“This is our 11th year,” said Yvette Raad, of Jane Lew, W.Va. “We operate three trailers.”
In the crafting area members of the Belleville Helping Hands Quilt Guild were showing the public how they make quilts.
Blanche Stephens and Wilma Wigal said they have been working on quilts at the fair for the past five years. At first they were working on works in progress and showing off some of their quilts that won past shows.
Wigal said she was stitching together some squares to make bigger pieces for one of her quilts.
Sheryl Carpenter, also a member of the guild and the Community Education Outreach Services, was showing how she made a quilt with a 1953 vintage Singer sewing machine.
Carpenter said the machine was all she needs for simple jobs.
“It’s perfect to stitch together two things,” she said. “It only weighs 13 pounds, comes with its own case, sews like a dream and it’s quiet.”
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