{"id":103690,"date":"2017-09-08T19:00:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-09T01:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-fair-to-spotlight-local-artisans-benefit-families\/"},"modified":"2017-09-08T19:00:09","modified_gmt":"2017-09-09T01:00:09","slug":"mancos-fair-to-spotlight-local-artisans-benefit-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-fair-to-spotlight-local-artisans-benefit-families\/","title":{"rendered":"Mancos fair to spotlight local artisans, benefit families"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Hot air balloons are expected to be at the Mancos Valley Arts and Craft Street Fair on Sept. 30, though the balloon festival has been canceled.<\/span>Mike Wilkinson\/For The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

Mancos\u2019 Grand Avenue will host the 14th annual Mancos Valley Arts and Crafts Street Fair on Sept. 30.<\/p>\n

The fair will have a large variety of artisans, according to Carrie Summers Baikie, coordinator of the fair.<\/p>\n

\u201cGrand Avenue is going to be closed off, and we have a variety of different vendors, from oil painters, furniture makers to jewelers,\u201d Summers Baikie said. \u201cThere are going to be a bunch of farmers market vendors there as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

The balloon festival itself has been canceled, but hot air balloons will still be a part of the event.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is not really a balloon festival anymore,\u201d Summers Baikie said. \u201cThe balloons are just launching on Friday and Saturday morning at sunrise.\u201d<\/p>\n

The event is still accepting reservations for vendor booths at $30 each. Profits from booth reservations will go to the \u201cPay it Forward\u201d campaign.<\/p>\n

\u201cPay It Forward goes to helping families in need, and specifically, they help all the families displaced by the fire at the Excelsior plant,\u201d Summers Baikie said.<\/p>\n

Many families were displaced after a fire destroyed the Western Excelsior plant in Mancos on May 8.<\/p>\n

In 2015, the company employed about 100 workers in Montezuma County, and about 42 percent of them live in Mancos, a report from Region 9 Economic Development states. Western Excelsior jobs represented about 14 percent of jobs in the town.<\/p>\n

The event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n

For more information on booth reservations, contact Carrie Summers Baikie at 970-759-2540.<\/p>\n

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