A little something for everyone
Vintage Days features crafts, food and games
Ryan Tubongbanua / The Collegian
“We come here every year,” said Aiden Hawkins, the father of 4 year old Steve Hawkins. Aiden Hawkins paid $1 to
watch his son throw eggs at Billy Kelley, an Industrial Technology sophomore. The booth was sponsored by Pi Kappa Alpha. |
By Morgan Steger
The Collegian
Fresno State student Brittany Morris did some power shopping at Fresno State’s annual Vintage Days Crafts Faire on Saturday.
The senior liberal studies major said she had spent more than she should as she stood and contemplated a toe ring booth with friends, her day’s purchases, including a couple Parisian-inspired art prints and a decorative ceramic tile, dangling in bags on her arm.
Morris, who comes to Vintage Days every year, was just one of many Fresno State students and community members who came out to shop, eat and be entertained at Vintage Days.
The event offered crafts, food and information booths, along with salsa dancing Friday night and a battle of the bands Saturday evening.
The Crafts Faire included 140 booths this year, with wares ranging from SpongeBob Squarepants candles to hand-thrown pottery, said LaToya Turner, Vintage Day’s Crafts Faire coordinator.
Turner said turnout for the event was strong, especially on Friday.
“We weren’t expecting a whole lot of people on Friday but it turned out to be really good,” she said.
For those who were able to come out for evening events, Vintage Days held events such as Battle of the Bands and Casino
Battle of the Bands featured a variety of local bands competing at the Satellite Student Union Saturday night. The band Camera won first place.
Anthropology major Sarah Cairns said Battle of the Bands was fun and a lot of people were at the event.
“It was cool because you could see a variety of local bands,” Cairns said.
One of the bands she liked, Stereotype, did not win, but she said she liked the Ska beat they featured.
“You could tell they had been together a long time,” Cairns said about Stereotype.
During the day time events, most of booths were manned by Fresno State students raising money for campus organizations.
Monica Gonzales and Cynthia Betancourt spent more than ten hours working at their booth on Friday, and planned to put in similar shifts on Saturday and Sunday. They worked at the Trabajadores de la Raza booth selling aguas frescas, authentic Mexican fruit drinks their club made from scratch.
Gonzales said by the time the last drink had been served Friday, their group had already recouped more than the $250 they spent on supplies.
“Everything else is profit,” Gonzales said.
The Japanese Students Association also set up a booth and sold about $500 worth of Teriyaki Chicken Japanese Pizza on Friday, said club member Art Amezcua. Amezcua, who had already sampled two pizzas himself on Friday, said this was the first year the group has sold the pizza, better known to Japanese students as ‘okonomiyaki,” at Vintage Days. The profits made will be used to pay for future club events, including an end of the year banquet, he said.
Fresno State students Lesli Mierkey, Kathryn Potter and Cortnie Gressman, who came to Vintage Days to check out the food and crafts said they were pleased with what the event had to offer.
“The food is delicious,” Potter said.
“It’s totally better than the dining hall,” Mierkey added, as she surveyed their spread of popcorn, lemonade and cinnamon rolls. “We’re just getting started.”
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