Adam Prudhomme
Editor
Napanee’s Strathcona Paper Centre will be bustling with activity this weekend as minor hockey players look to score goals while shoppers look to score a great deal.
On the ice is the Napanee Stars’ annual Andy McGarvey Memorial Tournament, which will feature teams from atom to midget, with champions crowned in each division. The tournament runs from Friday to Sunday.
Meanwhile inside the banquet hall on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. will be Greater Napanee’s Holiday Market.
A total of 41 vendors will set up a table, with free admission to shoppers, whether they be hockey fans looking to kill some time between games or residents looking to get an early start on their holiday shopping.
“Vendors look forward to this market every year because it’s going to be a busy one,” noted Kelsey Pearson, acting special events clerk with Greater Napanee. “Lots of people come to it. We fill up pretty fast within the first week of it being promoted.”
Many of the vendors are the same ones that took part in the summer’s Hometown Market, which wrapped up its first season in Conservation Park after having been housed in the Market Square for several seasons.
“Just like the Hometown Market, everything is handmade, home grown,” said Pearson of the Holiday Market. “We have lots of return vendors from the market season. We have a wide range of participants. We have a lot of woodworking and a lot of knit and fibre objects, jewellery, honey products, herbs, a lot of preserves, arrangements and decorations for the holidays, treats and goodies and all kinds of stuff. There’s a really good variety this year.”