Spring Mills Craft Fair Features Model Railroad Layout

SPRING MILLS — The Spring Mills community will hold its annual Winter Craft Fair, featuring many locally made products, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Old Gregg School Community Center.

A large number of vendors, including artists, crafters and home businesses will be selling many items suitable for holiday gifts. Past vendors have sold jewelry, handmade wooden items, candles, beauty products, home decor, Tupperware and other items to the large crowds shoppers who gather at the event.

Food will be available, and musicians will be on the stage to entertain visitors.

The Nittany Valley Model Railroad Club, located in an 18-by-30-foot room in the building’s basement, will have an open house during the event. They will be running trains on their large HO-scale layout, and will be giving away free train books. The club, which has been showing at the craft fair for four years, hopes to interest other adults in joining their group.

According to club member Gerald Johnson, the members have put their recent efforts into the building of a nearly completed engine yard on a 14-foot long peninsula extending from the center of the layout. Johnson said he doubts if the total layout will ever be completed, as the club keeps making changes and improvements.

Johnson said last year’s open house drew almost 200 visitors of all ages. Admission to the craft fair and open house is free to the public.