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Lions Arts & Crafts Festival

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Posted by Joyce Rhyne on 19 Mar 15 - 0 Comments

What? You didn’t miss the Arts & Crafts Festival sponsored by the Port O’Connor Lions Club, did you?

If you did, you really missed a special event held on Saturday, March 14th at the POC Community Center Pavilion with lots of handcrafted items and art with the artists, along with handcrafted jewelry, crosses, wreaths, handcrafted writing pens, woodcrafted fish, bird houses, and nautical items including a very large lighthouse, cosmetics and wonderful creams, special ergonomic tools for ladies, purses to hold handguns for those with their concealed handgun permits, metal cutouts, framed pictures of Port O’Connor, a book sale and game with prizes by The Friends of the Port O’Connor Library, and many other items too numerous to mention including lessons given on turquoise stones. The Smokin’ Nuts had wonderful barbeque sandwich lunches. Donnie Haynes, Henry Pongratz and their teammates can really serve up some good barbeque and this is their third year joining us, for which we are grateful. We appreciate this team. The talent of all these vendors is fantastic.

Our youngest out of state vendor, age 15, Michael Polaski, came out on Friday and worked in the preparation of the booth spaces and stayed for the clean-up after the event. Did you see his drawings? They are fantastic with so much detail and research he includes in his drawings. This young man has talent.
Some of our other workers besides President Lynn Reeves and Michael were Port O’Connor Lions Club Director, Dell Weathersby, along with Sue Kubecka and John Jordan.
Thanks to the Lions from other Clubs and cities who came to join us on Saturday. We prayed for good weather for the event and were blessed by our Higher Authority for whom we truly thank for providing us a beautiful day.

Sure hope you shoppers got that fantastic item you were looking for.

THANK YOU TO ALL THOSE WHO HELPED TO MAKE THE FESTIVAL A FUN EVENT!!

For information or to find out how you can become part of the Port O’Connor Lions Club which is a local and part of an international service organization, please contact Lynn Reeves, President at #361-746-2524. -Joyce Jordan

Saturday, March 14 turned out to be a beautiful day for the Lions Club third annual arts and crafts festival. Pictured above are front, L to R: POC Lion Joyce Jordan and Lynn Reeves, POC Lions Club President; back, L to R: Sally Kocian, Victoria Downtown Lions Club and Del Weathersby, POC Lions Club. Pictured below are members of POC’s Smokin’ Nuts barbecue team, who offered delicious bbq sandwiches at the fair. L-R: Julian Garcia, Michael Zacko, Don Haynes, Henry Pongratz, and Don DuBois.