BLUEFIELD, W.Va. -If you’re wanting to get in on the Christmas spirit or Christmas shopping, there’s an event at the Beckley-Raleigh County Convention Center that hopes to let you do just that. It’s called the Believe in the Magic Craft and Vendor Christmas show and features more than one hundred and twenty small businesses.
This is the creation of local media company ‘Southern Communications,’ based on the success of their annual Women’s Expo.
“This is the twenty-seventh year for the Women’s Expo, and we just kind of felt like, ‘Okay, we need something else,’ and in today’s climate with everything going on, who doesn’t love Christmas?” says Lola Rizer, assistant program director for Southern Communications.
Rizer says this is the third year they’ve held this craft and vendor show and it gets bigger every year. We spoke to one vendor who have been coming every year to sell photos with a real-life Santa horse, to raise money for “A Broken Spur Riding Academy,” a local nonprofit that helps those with special needs through horseback riding.
“It usually attracts a lot of attention, lets people know that we’re here and that we work because a lot of people don’t know that there is such a thing as therapeutic horseback riding, so it… brings awareness and stuff like that to the community,” says Sarah Dorsey, founder, executive director, and instructor for A Broken Spur Riding Academy.
Both Rizer and Dorsey encourage people to stop by the Believe in the Magic Craft and Vendor show, calling a good opportunity to support small business and find gifts that you may not see in chain stores.
This two-day event will have its second day on Saturday from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. Rizer says people of all ages are welcome to this annual event.
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