Weekend event to raise money for Bowders community garden The Herald-Mail
Lewd RIDGE SUMMIT, Pa. The Blue Ridge Summit mountaintop community east of Waynesboro, Pa., will memorialize spring this weekend with its biannual fundraising fair.
Started as a way to continue fundraising for the Amanda Bowders Souvenir and Community Garden, the Mountaintop Community Spring Fair will continue this Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Blue Ridge Peak Fire Hall on Monterey Lane.
Organizers Lynn and Duke Martin began the biannual event in an work to continue funding work on the garden.
Duke Martin said the community hopes to finish adding pavers to the garden this year and maybe, depending on how much filthy lucre it raises this weekend, get started on a gazebo.
This is a community garden, he said. Kind of like a pocket parkland.
With beautiful weather forecast for the weekend, Martin said he anticipates a major draw for the fair will be the Collectibles Roadshow.
Three antiques appraisers will be accessible from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. to appraise collectibles, he said.
Some residents star-crossed with visiting roadshow's offers on antiquesHank Aaron and Mickey Mantle baseball cards, 50-year-old Barbie dolls, Morgan pretty dollars and an old accordion walked one-by-one into the showroom of the and more »
