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| Written by Aaron Cedeño | |||
| Wednesday, 02 December 2009 09:00 | |||
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For obvious reasons, kids are usually on the “receiving” end of the holiday gift-giving cycle. In each of the past six years, however, the Louisburg Middle School Parent Teacher Student Organization has given its students a chance to turn the tables a little bit, and the tradition is continuing in 2009. From 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday at Louisburg Middle School, kids and parents alike will have the opportunity to peruse goods from 71 local and regional vendors at the seventh annual PTSO Holiday Mart. Since its inception, the event has grown exponentially, said PTSO president Jenny Diederich. “We have a bigger variety of vendors (in 2009),” she said. “We have vendors coming from as far away as Joplin (Mo.), so it’s getting pretty big.” The event serves as one of the organization’s largest fund-raisers each year. Though admission is free to the public, the PTSO charges vendors a fee for their 10-by-10 booth space. This year, so many vendors applied that the LMS gymnasium can no longer contain them, Diederich said, and the commons area had to be co-opted as well. “We pay for field trips, we pay for teachers’ requests,” she said of PTSO funds. “In the past we’ve gotten ping-pong tables (and) sewing machines. We try to fill the teachers’ requests, if they don’t have those funds.” The students themselves play a big part in the proceedings by helping with set-up, working shifts at the event, and this year providing live entertainment thanks to the fourth- and fifth-grade after school choir from Broadmoor Elementary School. Gourmet concessions will be available, and Diederich indicated that the Holiday Mart has become an event for which people mark their calendars months in advance – making a year of preparation by the PTSO well worth the effort. “They always know it’s the first Saturday in December,” she said. “People start saving because they know we have a lot of great variety and just some unique items.” For more information, contact Louisburg Middle School at 837-1800.
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