Craft-fair proceeds go back into community

POPLAR RIDGE -- The first thing visitors the annual Scipioville Presbyterian Church craft fair saw when they walked in the door of Southern Cayuga High School was several long tables covered in donated items ranging from jewelry to pots and pans.

"Have you girls found anything exciting?" Elizabeth Shockey said to two young girls who were looking at jewelry at the table on Saturday morning. "If you find two things you like, I'll let you have both of them for a quarter."

The two girls, armed with 50 cents each, began looking even harder through the second-hand jewelry that Shockey was selling to raise money for Camp Gregory, a non-denominational community camp near Aurora on Cayuga Lake. In past years, the camp raised between $500 and $700 that helps keep the price of the camp affordable for families, Shockey said.